HBG's Amerika Game ON KICKSTARTER NOW - FUNDED!

Tall Paul

Guys,
––I received an e-mail yesterday stating that HBG was now starting to ship the complete AMERIKA games to the Kickstarter backers which will necessarily take a little while to complete. But things are “HAPPENING!”

Tall Paul

knp7765

Hey Paul,
That is not all. You should check out their Facebook page. The US set is all made and packaged up for shipping to HBG. Also they have some pics of the prototype sculpts for the new German set. All very exciting.

knp7765

Hey Everybody,
I got my first pieces for the AMERIKA game. I haven’t gotten my games yet but I’m sure they will be here any day now. The HBG crew have a LOT of work packaging all of this stuff for all the backers. I got my Expansion pieces and the reinforcements for the Allies though and I must say they are really cool.
Great detail, but of course we’re used to that from HBG by now. First is a pic of the German expansion pieces.
Second pic is of the Allied and Japanese expansion pieces.

By the way, in case some of you didn’t know this, the M-6 Medium Tank in the Allied Expansion pieces was actually conceived in 1942 for use as a heavy tank by the US Army and a couple of prototypes were actually built. However, they decided that the M-4 Sherman tank was adequate for the Army’s needs and the M-6 simply was not needed so it was discontinued.
I saw a model kit for this tank in a military magazine and was half tempted to order it for the novelty.

knp7765

A couple of more pics for everyone.
First the Allied regular game pieces.
Second is the King Tiger next to the Tiger 1 from the first German set. I think the scale is near perfect.
It occurs to me that some of these expansion pieces are probably more for working into the various Global games (G40, G39, G36) than for AMERIKA. After all, while the King Tiger tank was a boost up in heavy tanks during WW2, it would kind of be a step down from the heavy tanks available in the AMERIKA scenario. Also, the Jet Seaplane probably doesn’t have a lot of use since this is mostly a land-based game.
Of course, maybe I am just not using enough imagination. I imagine any of us can use these pieces any way we please.
I will probably share more pics when I get the rest of my stuff.

Witt

I happy for you Knp. Thanks for the pics.

John Brown

Thanks Knp for showing us these pictures. :-D

sophiedog2

Is there any way to still get the expansion pieces?

John Brown

@sophiedog2:

Is there any way to still get the expansion pieces?

After all kick starter pledges get their games, they will go on sale sometime later, but not till all kick starter, as well as pre-orders, are filled. :-)

P-Unit

Does any store other than HBG sell this game, or do we have to order it from their webstore?

HBG

Noble Knight Games will carry it with a few others.

knp7765

Hey Everybody!
I got my games this week. I’ve spent the last couple of days checking everything out. Lots of cool stuff here. Of course I have pics to share with you all. Check it out.
First is the box. The cardboard surface of the box and inner components are very high quality and professional looking. Comparable to the Axis & Allies 50th Anniversary game. Very nice.

I tried earlier to attach 2 pics to this post but kept getting an error message so I will try one at a time. It will take a lot of posts but I guess that’s okay.

knp7765

Here is with the box open showing the parts boxes. They fit a little tight at first but I think over time and use they will loosen up some. At least you don’t spill all your parts.
At either end of the box are simple spacers to keep everything in place.

knp7765

Next are the playbook, reference cards and battle board.

knp7765

Here are the Allied units

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knp7765

Here are the German units.

knp7765

Here are the Japanese Units.

knp7765

Here’s the special AMERIKA dice. Pretty cool.

hkytown1

I got two copies of the game with tons of extra pieces. So excited to finally see this game come to fruiition, I know Variable and Coach are proud/relieved/happy to see it finally distributed to us backers. I had a couiple broken pieces come through so I emailed coach and he got back to me quickly letting me know that he would replace them :-D

Super high quality packaging and cardstock to create a truly unique and fun game that everyone will enjoy. You won’t be dissapointed with Amerika!

crsluggo

Cool Pics! I’m looking forward to getting my copy as well. I had no doubt that HBG would deliver what they promised to.

Imperious Leader

wow wheres my copy. Those are some nifty dice!! wish i had some

HBG's Amerika Game ON KICKSTARTER NOW - FUNDED!

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