sounds good, but the old-style telephones are only allowed to connect to the local pizza place :-P
IL
Earlier FMG said he was planning on making the following units.
So far I think these should be:
a) The Truck or Half track unit
b) The bunker unit
c) The commander unit
d) The Rocket unit (Maybe… I just think it is cool)
e) Transport Plane
f) Other…Huh (we will all figure this out)
Letter “C” says “The Command Unit”. This is what I was asking about. I know what a bunker unit is but not a commander unit.
Personally though, I think bunkers are worthless. Look how much time and money Germany spent building the Atlantic wall. And how long did it hold off the allies, one day.
MY list:
Fortification unit ( like a blockhouse but rather a nice roundish concrete thing with a narrow slit and a gun sticking out
General unit: Not a figure, but a new building structure ( like wolfs lair) with a flag that players can use to stick the flag above. its really a HQ unit
Bombed out factory to denote damaged factories
Replacement Italian pieces that were messed up from AA50: Bomber, BB, CA, Artillery
Soviet Artillery ( katyuska?)
Mechanized Infantry ( just 2 sculpts)
V-1 Rockets
Heavy bomber?
New sub for Germany and Italy.
new fighter-bomber plane in 4 new sculpts, except don’t need German or American ( already have stuka and P-38)
generic airborne infantry ( 2 sculpts)
not sure about transport plane
thats already like 17 new pieces.
@Imperious:
new fighter-bomber plane in 4 new sculpts, except don’t need German or American ( already have stuka and P-38)
so just make a mold from these existing pieces?
IL
Earlier FMG said he was planning on making the following units.
So far I think these should be:
a) The Truck or Half track unit
b) The bunker unit
c) The commander unit
d) The Rocket unit (Maybe… I just think it is cool)
e) Transport Plane
f) Other…Huh (we will all figure this out)Letter “C” says “The Command Unit”. This is what I was asking about. I know what a bunker unit is but not a commander unit.
Personally though, I think bunkers are worthless. Look how much time and money Germany spent building the Atlantic wall. And how long did it hold off the allies, one day.
I am not sure if the COMMANDER unit is covered in this forum (Im sure it is somewhere) There are several expansions (One that I am creating) where you can purchase a COMMANDER. This unit gives the army attached to it special abilities and access to certain DOCTRINES.
It adds something to the game as WW2 was full of clashing commanders, Rommel - Monty… etc…
If I make the unit I will publish all these ideas at that time.
@Imperious:
new fighter-bomber plane in 4 new sculpts, except don’t need German or American ( already have stuka and P-38)
so just make a mold from these existing pieces?
For our own Legal protection we can not just “copy” the existing units. We have to make new sculpts and/or change the existing units in some way so they are unique from the WOTC pieces. Also we want to make them BETTER than these existing units.
yes no copy of existing junk. Thats the whole purpose which is to offer something better.
How many of what units do we think we need per set?
I was thinking that we should count the total’s up from both '41 & '42 scenarios and use the highest number from each and do this country by country.
Example lets say Russia has 21 INF in '41 and 25 INF in '42 we will have 25 INF come in the set.
If Russia has 29 ARM in '41 and 18 ARM in '42 we’ll go with 29.
Bottom line what I would like to see is if I don’t want to use chips in the starting set up I don’t have to.
Maybe I’m putting the cart before the horse… :|
I am not sure if the COMMANDER unit is covered in this forum (Im sure it is somewhere) There are several expansions (One that I am creating) where you can purchase a COMMANDER. This unit gives the army attached to it special abilities and access to certain DOCTRINES.
I understand now thanks.
A couple of questions. Now when you say you will make them of better quality. Do you mean better than anything A&A has produced or make them of equvilent quality of the previous A&A games such as the revised addition?
If you are going to make Mechanized Infantry and Fighter (Dive) Bombers. here are the units I would like to see.
Mech Inf
US/Russia - M3 Halftrack
Germany - SdKfz 250
British - Bren (Universal) carrier
Japan - Truck or SdKfz 250
Although Japan did develop and armored APC (Type 1 Ho-Ha) They felt they were too slow and so built very few and primarily used trucks (However, trucks are classified as “Motorized” infantry. If you wish to give Japan an APC then I would use the Sdk fz 250
Italy - Krauss-Maffei KM m 11 or Autoblinda 41
Italy did used and produced a licence version of the German KM m 11 but were bigger users of Armored cars such as the Autoblinda 41
If you plan to make Fighter (Dive) Bombers I recommend the following.
Note: On a strategic level I classify Fighter, Torpedo and Dive - Bombers in the same groups because their primary mission was to attack surface/ground targets.
Russia - Il-2M3 Shturmovik
Germany - Stuka
British - Hawker Typhoon or A-31 Vengeance
U.S.A - SBD Dauntless
Japan - Aichi DA3 Val
Italians - Breda 65
If you want to combine. The Italians used the Breda Ba-201 which looked very similar to the Stuka
Mechanized and Motorized Infantry ( elite infantry)
US/Russia - M3 Halftrack
Germany - SdKfz 251
British - M3 Halftrack
Japan -SdKfz 251
Italy - Krauss-Maffei KM m 11 or SdKfz 251
Fighter-Bombers
Russia - Il-2M3 Shturmovik or PE-3
Germany - JU-87
British - Hawker Typhoon
U.S.A - SBD Dauntless
Japan - Aichi DA3 Val or Kate
http://www.air-and-space.com/20051022 Edwards/DSC_1620 Harvard Mk IV N2047 Kate left rear taxiing l.jpg
or judy http://www.cv13.com/d4ylat1.gif
Italians - JU-87
Bombers:
Italy
Savoia Marchetti sm79-1
Italian naval pieces:
BB: http://www.regiamarina.net/arsenals/ships_it/battleships/battle_us.htm ( prefer Littorio Class)
CA: http://dadamo.us/arsenals/ships_it/cruisers_heavy/crui_heavy_us.htm (prefer Zara)
DD: I dont think you need one.
AP: dont think you need one
SS: dont think you need one
Artillery:
i saw that they have and it really looks too close to the Japanese artillery. So save the money.
Self Propelled Artillery:
Germany: http://www.achtungpanzer.com/images/elep_1.jpg (elephant)
Soviet: Katyuska or SU-122 http://www.battlefield.ru/tanks/su122/su122_1.jpg
American: M-10 or M36 tank destroyer
Italy: http://k53.pbase.com/u45/kuklabubs/upload/34640934.ItalianTankDestroyerSemovent4732.jpg
Japan:http://mailer.fsu.edu/~akirk/tanks/japan/JapanHo-NiType1TankDestroyer.jpg
i think the Wespe would be a better choice for a German self-propelled artillery piece: http://www.figuren-modellbau.de/fahrzeuge/matchbox-40077-wespe-panzer-artillerie.jpg
nooo not that silly wespe. take the bigger gun pls. the hummel!! :roll:
http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Datei:SdKfz165.jpg&filetimestamp=20060502074613 hummel = Bumblebee
http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Datei:SdKfz124.jpg&filetimestamp=20060730212132 wespe = wasp
adolf actually forbid the use of theese names, cuz they were too cute :)
those pieces look so similar i don’t think it matters if you go for one or the other (when you take them down to the scale of the models used in A&A you can see what i mean). i know just over a 100 more of the Hummel were built than the Wespe, but i think the Wespe is more iconic :-P
i know your right, but we all like bigger guns, dont we? :D
Yes old style telephones. The kind they use on Combat! Starring Vic Morrow. Use them to communicate orders to teammates.
id really like to see this done in plastic. A perfect replacement for the blockhouse
that’s pretty much how i pictured the block house to look :-)
Of course they dropped the ball as the original post mentioned. But this is a board game under a certain price that most (or hopefully at least some) will pay If you want realism check out: http://www.ghqmodels.com/.
That belongs in the ultra mega deluxe premium edition of axis and allies. ;)
exactly. nice models though
