Anyone else feel cheated?

[Most Holy]

I use my E&P40 boxes with Ozimeks paper inserts for my games. All UK units in one box and France and China together in another leaves room for 2 boxes holding chips and factories and our custom Air and Naval bases.
That said they are the only ones that come with boxes recently. it almost relegates other games to expansion sets. They should offer booster packs with things like 3-D bases, IC’s and containers IMO.

[Yavid]

@Most:

it almost relegates other games to expansion sets. They should offer booster packs with things like 3-D bases, IC’s and containers IMO.

I 2nd that

[oztea]

I think there are 10 ICs at setup, and I just got the game and only 10 cardboard tokens come in the box.

Man, I was hoping to use the tokens, but with just 10 that really ruins the fun if someone builds a new one. You would have to move one off you capital or something.

I guess I’ll bust out my old plastic one from one of my now defunct versions of A&A

[Witt]

I was surprised there were only 10. Think that means there are 2 spare!

[Variable]

@wittman:

I was surprised there were only 10. Think that means there are 2 spare!

That’s correct, two to spare after setup. Would be nice to have 16 or so.

[Jennifer]

@Imperious:

Bags work fine too.

The game is also cheap enough to allow small food containers to be bought for pieces.

I loved them.  Kept things organized.

[djensen]

I do not feel cheated at all. Just get some cheap snack sized ziplock bags or some “craft bags” and you’ll be fine. I’m more disappointed that UK came with only 2 aircraft carriers. I don’t like having to use Soviet naval pieces as substitutes.

[Jennifer]

Oh dont worry, I’m pretty good with my hands, gunna MAKE some trays for them - assuming I am convinced it’s a good game and not another bad sequel…(yes, he’s had a couple.)

[Pacific War]

I posted these before in a different thread but thay are relevant here too.  They take a little time and patience but they are dirt cheap (as in nothing to 10 cents) and they store nicely in the box because you make them to fit the box!  There’s a certain amount of pride in them when they get used too because you know that YOU created them from junk….just cardboard and glue.  IMO they are the perfect solution because they are tailor made for whatever pieces and whichever game you are going to store in them.

[Der Kuenstler]

Or just make yourself some of these….

[Pacific War]

Snazzy!!!

[Most Holy]

Oh shit son. I never thought of using decorative trim to make the boxes. The wife is going to kill me for sure now since I’ve not even trimmed the doors and windows in the new bedroom yet but I’ll be doing this stuff. Nice knowing you guys. Bury me with my painted A&A pieces please.

[Witt]

We will, as long as your wife did not burn the house around cremating you as you were painting at the time!
Still a pity we have to come up with solutions though.

[oztea]

Oh, I miscounted, thought there was 10 on the card, but there is 12

[Jennifer]

@Most:

Oh ���� son. I never thought of using decorative trim to make the boxes. The wife is going to kill me for sure now since I’ve not even trimmed the doors and windows in the new bedroom yet but I’ll be doing this stuff. Nice knowing you guys. Bury me with my painted A&A pieces please.

And she has every right to do so!

(I like the trim as well, btw.  I just made mine out of cherry and brass pins, stained it and gave it a piano finish.)

[Der Kuenstler]

@Cmdr:

(I like the trim as well, btw.  I just made mine out of cherry and brass pins, stained it and gave it a piano finish.)

Oooooh - Pic please?

[Jennifer]

Yea, when I go back to the storage facility I’ll pull the box out and take some photos.

To picture it, think a small jewelry box (because that’s what I adapted originally, then built the compartment walls, stained them, and hammered in some brass buttons.)

[knp7765]

Cmdr Jennifer,
The storage case you describe sounds lovely. The one pictured above looks really nice too. My problem is that I keep changing my mind on how I want my pieces arrainged in my containers so I keep changing things around until I find something that suits me. Of course, it probably doesn’t help that I keep so many pieces on hand either. While I have toyed with the idea of constructing some type of customized piece storage, I would be afraid to put that much work into something only to find later that I don’t like the setup. So, I will stick with the simple plastic.

[CWO Marc]

@knp7765:

I’ve taken to using Plano or Flambeau adjustable containers for my game pieces. You can find them in the sporting goods departments of most stores (they are meant for holding fishing lures and such). I just love them but I am starting to accumulate quite a few because I keep changing how I want my containers organized and with accomodating the new sculpts

Same here.  I organize my sculpts in Flambeau storage boxes too, and with the arrival of AA41 and AA42(2nd ed) I’ve decided as a project for this weekend to start rearranging my storage system, which puts into different compartments different versions (by colour and shape) of the same sculpts, plus leaves blocks of empty space here and there to absorb future expansions.  The U.S. expanded to four trays when Pacific 1940 and Europe 1940 came out, but it may now need five to take 41, 42, and the two upcoming second editions of P40 and E40.  Britain, Russia, Germany and Japan had been running at three trays each, but may now grow to four.  The other countries use one tray each and I don’t expect that to change even when P40 and E40 come out.  (One thing I’m very curious about is whether the “new ANZAC sculpts” that were announced by WotC will include a distinct infantry piece rather than just the colour variant of the British troop sculpt we got in the original P40.)

[CWO Marc]

@wittman:

Also hate how all the bags say: Made in China. Pity.

I read about a veteran who, on a visit to the Marine Corps Monument at Arlington which shows the flag raising at Iwo Jima, bought a miniature replica of the statue, turned it over and saw “Made in Japan” written on it.  He was upset at first, but later he felt better when he started to view it as a demonstration of the desirable fact that the US and Japan were now at peace.