There’s no official answer that I know of. A&A is such an abstracted game that, in one sense, it would be meaningless to say that game unit X corresponds to real-world military (or naval) formation Y. Given the scope of A&A Global 1940, however, the various unit types on the map would roughly correspond to large formations if we were to assume that the allocation of units in the rules corresponds to real WWII numbers. As an example, Germany’s invasion of the USSR was carried out with over 150 divisions – so from that perspective, the small number of sculpts on the actual board could at best only correspond to army groups. At that level, it shouldn’t even be possible to differentiate between the components of the army groups, nor even of their consitutent armies or corps; the highest-level tank formations in WWII were, I think, armoured divisions and (one level further down) tank brigades. So one way to look at the game would be to imagine that we’re not actually seeing the military formations themselves, but rather a patchwork picture showing some of the elements of those formations, with some of these elements being high-level ones and others being lower-level ones (like tank brigades).
Various house rule pieces ( and where to find them)
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Isn’t that kind of big? Do you put the aa gun on top of it to indicate radar?
20mm square :-D
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there slightly smaller than the chip used in the board game , its 20mm not CM lol , yeah i do put it under the AA guns XD
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Isn’t 20mm=2cm? The aa gun is smaller than 1cm?
there slightly smaller than the chip used in the board game , its 20mm not CM lol , yeah i do put it under the AA guns XD
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yes it is , thats why i said its near the size of a chip used in game lol less than a inch wide
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chips are .75 inches
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Someone’s falling down on the job.
You need to check out what is going on with the FMG A&A pieces. He is preparing to release a set of Italian pieces. Then he plans to release the other natioins as funds become available from the sale of the earlier sets. His sets will come with some unusual pieces such as a new aircraft piece representing dive bombers. Later he will consider a wider range of new pieces and other projects. Check out his dice for a Christmas present. Look in the Variants section for the sticky thread about the FMG project.
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These are for actual pieces that you can buy right now.
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What models do you think would work for the Russian Navy? Davco doesn’t seem to have anything….
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Just use British or stay with the plastic ones
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Who is the manufacturer? I did a search and cant find anything called bd6 that is a cleaner. Id like to take a look at the MSDS on that - company should have it available on their site if they have one.
Celeste
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Quick Question. We have a custom game that will incorporate many of the roundels within this link for various countries. I am at the office so can not get the exact measurement of the OOB roundels so was hoping someone could provide some insight. Are they simply 1" in diameter?
Thank you in advance! I would be happy to share the custom game with any interested parties once we do the final playtest tomorrow night.
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.75 inch
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No one has posted here in some time, but I’ll throw out a question anyways: Has anybody ever purchased WW2 pieces from Table Tactics for a game called Engage? There are a few pieces that I haven’t seen before such as a Russian tank destroyer, and an Italian either tank destroyer or mechanized artillery unit. The infantry pieces don’t work for a&a. If I could buy individual units like the two listed above I would, but you have to get them in a set. HBG doesn’t sell them. Has anyone else seen/purchased them?
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THEY ARE ALL TOO LARGE FOR AA. I bought them all. Only thing useful was to cut the guns off the infantry and you got fortification units. Other than that it is a sad waste of potential.
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Thanks IL, you saved me some money. Just have to wait until HBG gets their Russian, German set out.
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Table Tactics pieces are cool but OOP. HBG or FMG outta reach out and see if they can’t get get TT’s mold and produce new edition colors for the AA series. I loved TT’s original AA pieces. shame they don’t sell them anymore.
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In trying to create my own house rules for a Desert War game (using A&A and other minis), I need to evaluate the MECHANICAL reliability of the tanks which participated in those battles…(as you surely know, in some instances, more vehicles broke down due to the harsh desert conditions than during the battle)…could you give me a help ?..(scale : 1 - 6, for “six” being the most reliable tank)
Matilda
Sherman
Crusader I/II
M13/40 Carro Armato
Panzer III
Panzer IV -
Italian tank is unreliable
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@hbg Interesting :upside_down_face:
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