1942SE at GenCon was awesome.

[Hobbes]

@texasranger97:

what the hell is the brits mech inf??? I already saw brens in museum and I can tell� you this is not one

Yup, it’s not a Bren. From the looks of it I’d say it’s a Kangaroo - during the UK the British converted unnecessary tanks as armored personnel carriers - if you check the wheels they look close to the US Sherman or the Canadian Ram.

[Yavid]

@Hobbes:

@texasranger97:

what the hell is the brits mech inf??? I already saw brens in museum and I can tell� you this is not one

Yup, it’s not a Bren. From the looks of it I’d say it’s a Kangaroo - during the UK the British converted unnecessary tanks as armored personnel carriers - if you check the wheels they look close to the US Sherman.

I was thinking the samething about 2 mins. after I wrote my comment, I was just about to edit mine.

[Guest]

LOL its a priest tank destroyer converted into a Kangaroo armoured personnel carrier.  You can tell by the lump on its right side (toward the top in the pic).  LAAAAAME

Kangaroos:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kangaroo_(armoured_personnel_carrier)

Priest:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M7_Priest

[Bob_A_Mickelson]

Quite ugly. Im glad I still have my 1st edition so I can use the respectable looking mech from that set.

[Gargantua]

Bob, why are you using the globe “I” invented as your avatar?

not cool  :-P

[Bob_A_Mickelson]

@Gargantua:

Bob, why are you using the globe “I” invented as your avatar?

not cool  :-P

I created my spinning globe not you. Did it 2 years ago and have been using it ever since.

http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?topic=20359.0;wap2

[Gargantua]

sigh

You never got that joke did you bob…

[CWO Marc]

Some pictures from Pacific 1940 2nd ed. can now be found at…

Axis and Allies.org Boards > Axis & Allies > Axis & Allies Pacific 1940

…courtesy of VanGal.  His original files are too large to post directly, so I started by posting a few quickly-reduced versions because I wanted to get them out as quickly as possible.  I’ll follow them up with some larger-scale close-ups of picture sections, either tonight or tomorrow morning, depending on how rapidly the re-sizing work goes.  Many thanks to VanGal for providing this valuable material!

[Witt]

Thanks both of you.

[Lunarwolf]

so are the french units really the same old soviet pieces? i know the box says they are, but the back of the box is really funky with the British having 2 different mechs and Italians seeming to have 2 different tacs.

[lozmoid]

I think the lesson we all really need to take away with us is basically to not trust the photo images on the back of the boxes.  :-)

[Yavid]

@Lozmoid:

I think the lesson we all really need to take away with us is basically to not trust the photo images on the back of the boxes.  :-)

yeah it’s almost like the box images are designed to treat us into buying the game.

[Hobbes]

@Yavid:

yeah it’s almost like the box images are designed to treat us into buying the game.

It’s a conspiracy, I tell you all…

[CWO Marc]

@texasranger97:

what the hell is the brits mech inf??? I already saw brens in museum and I can tell  you this is not one

It might be a Universal Carrier, a 4-man armoured personnel carrier which (like the Bren Gun Carrier) was derived from what was originally a 1920s tankette whose name I forget.

[Gargantua]

Have we seen any French Units yet?

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