I think it’s cool that you got more transport ships. I always thought we needed more of those anyway because we use them like crazy for most countries with the exceptions of Russia and France.
Got mine the other day. I am very impressed with quality! Here is my piece count along any comments about spcific units (intended to be helpful, not whiney).
Infantry:
6 leaders
11 SMG
13 Rifle
Rifle and SMG guy are almost indistinguishable at 1 foot away.
Land units:
12 Artillery
6 Trucks (I had intended to use these as mech inf, but they are HUGE!!! Still may, tho)
11 Armored Cars (not a fan of this choice over the Italian wheeled APC. Looks too much like the tank on the board. BTW: the short side is the front :-D)
7 Tanks
6 Assault guns (The assault guns are much bigger than the tank, despite both of the real vehicles actually being identical from the waist down. Perhaps this was done to make them easier to tell apart)
Ships
12 Transports (Love them)
12 Subs (Several were rather curved and in need of heating/straightening)
12 Destroyers
6 Cruisers
6 Carriers
6 Battleships
Aircraft
12 Fighters
6 Tacs
7 Bombers
5 Transports.
156 Total
Quite happy overall. I’d recommend them. :)
Just tore in to my new FMG Italians. Figured I’d put my piece count here, too.
8 bomber
3 transport planes
7 tacs
12 fighter
12 arty
6 heavy tank
5 light tank
12 armored car
6 truck
7 commander
11 rifle inf
13 smg inf
13 ss
6 bb
6 cv
12 dd
6 ca
13 transport
Little disappointed with the number of air transports, but these pieces are so freaking cool that I don’t think it’s really an issue. I’ll probably get a couple extras when I buy some sets of Axis minors from HBG. Keep up the good work, FMG! :-D
Such weird piece counts. I guess Jeremy was right, with so many pieces and so many sets, there are bound to be a few missing and a few extra pieces here and there. Good thing HBG sells the pieces individually so those of us that want to can fill any small holes in the sets.
Great news is I guess FMG decided to double-up on the number of transport ships per set. Thank you very much for that FMG!
Now go; Spread the word!! Tell the world!
I think FMG/HBG should have a sticky in every forum here. We are today almost 138 000 members here, but only a few read on this Variants Forum. I also think you should post some pics on Boardgamegeek forum, that should reach a lot of wargamers.
I too got my Italians today, and they are outstanding, just as expectet. Keep up the good work.
The grey chips was bigger than the OOB chips. Since some of the territories get crowded, I was hoping your chips would be smaller. They could be thicker for easy pick up, but the diameter should be less in order to take less space. No big deal, and surtenly no complaint, just a thoght.
I wasn’t home, so UPS gave my package to my neighbour. That was not very good. It would be better to pick it up at the local post office, can that be arranged ?
Now go; Spread the word!! Tell the world!
I think FMG/HBG should have a sticky in every forum here. We are today almost 138 000 members here, but only a few read on this Variants Forum. I also think you should post some pics on Boardgamegeek forum, that should reach a lot of wargamers.
Ref to Boardgamegeek, I only saw ’ Invasion Italy ’ from HBG there. I concur that FMG and HGB should post more pictures/videos under the Axis and Allies Variant title. Especially with the Global 1939 map and all the new units these two gentlemen are making for A&A fans. You guys might find a bunch of new customers from BGG.
J. 8-)
Right, and they could post in A&A Minis forums too.
AA Minis have changed scale two times already, so many Mini-players just may want to change to the classic AA-scale just to stay with one stable scale.
And how about getting the Memoire players to switch to AA scale pieces ?
Just a thought.
Now go; Spread the word!! Tell the world!
I think FMG/HBG should have a sticky in every forum here. We are today almost 138 000 members here, but only a few read on this Variants Forum. I also think you should post some pics on Boardgamegeek forum, that should reach a lot of wargamers.
Ref to Boardgamegeek, I only saw ’ Invasion Italy ’ from HBG there. I concur that FMG and HGB should post more pictures/videos under the Axis and Allies Variant title. Especially with the Global 1939 map and all the new units these two gentlemen are making for A&A fans. You guys might find a bunch of new customers from BGG.
J. 8-)
FMG is a sponsor of the AAA Mini forum. We are not a sponsor of BGG (too expensive and not the real AAA community)
It always helps when fans make posts on other sites where our posts will get deleted :-D
What’s the Status Germany? Are they on schedule to be released next month? Any new mold to see from the next Nation after Germany?
FMG is a sponsor of the AAA Mini forum. We are not a sponsor of BGG (too expensive and not the real AAA community)
It always helps when fans make posts on other sites where our posts will get deleted :-D
I see. So you don’t mind if we post links/pictures/comments on the others sites ref to you guys ( FMG & HBG ) and your endeavors.
J. 8-)
Ref to Boardgamegeek, I only saw ’ Invasion Italy ’ from HBG there. I concur that FMG and HGB should post more pictures/videos under the Axis and Allies Variant title. Especially with the Global 1939 map and all the new units these two gentlemen are making for A&A fans. You guys might find a bunch of new customers from BGG.
J. 8-)
All of the HBG games are on BGG. I put them there myself. G39 is still in approval stage.
Recieved 2x Italian sets in the mail today. Pieces look great! Some of the Battleships, Subs, Cruisers and Destroyers were slighty curved. Gentle application of pressure straigtened them out no problems. The two types of infantry look the same from table height (I’ll be using the leader pieces as “elite” infantry"). Don’t have a use for the transports, armoured cars and trucks so I bagged them and stored them with the rest of the spare pieces I’ve got).
All in all, very happy.
Will likey buy 2x sets of anything that comes out.
I got EXACTLY the number of FMG units that I orderred. I bought them through HBG and got EXACTLY the number of units I WANTED and ORDERRED.
Exactly 20-Rifle Infantry and 6-each of everything else other than 2-each of the Carriers, Battleships, and Cruisers.
Thanks Doug, the “Coach” at HBG and Jeremy at FMG. They’re being painted by “Allworkandnoclay” as we speak along with several other units, too. Thanks again HBG & FMG.
“Tall Paul”
Don’t have a use for the transports, armoured cars and trucks so I bagged them and stored them with the rest of the spare pieces I’ve got).
The Armored Cars are FMG’s Mechanized Infantry piece for the Italians. Do you not use Mech Inf in your game? Or do you just prefer the OOB halftracks?
Received my order from FMG and thought I’d share my count:
6 commanders
13 submachine gun inf
11 rifle inf
12 artillery
6 trucks
12 autoblinda mechs
6 carro armato tanks
6 semovente tanks
12 fighter planes
6 divebombers
6 bombers
6 cargo planes
12 transports
12 subs
12 destroyers
6 cruisers
6 battleships
6 carriers
Only deviation is one extra submachinegun and one less rifle.
My complaints are minor: I might have liked more diff between two infantry types, more tank units vs naval units, and different size ratios among the motor land units (the Italians themselves might be at fault here - didn’t they know I’d turn their war into my amusement?).
But the sculpts are very nice, and I appreciate the balance of expanded variety and detail vs slavishness to minutiae.
Redking,
I also wanted different numbers of units than was offerred in the standard set. That was why I orderered my FMG Italian units through HBG. I got EXACTLY what I wanted. I must say that I’m glad I did it that way as I didn’t think I’d ever need more than 2-each of the Carriers, Battleships, and Cruisers for the Italians. And I wanted 20 of the Rifle Infantry and 6 of the Machinegun Infantry(for Special Forces).
“Tall Paul”
Tall Paul,
I envision the smg infantry the same way - as special/shock forces.
I will probably purchase more rifles as regular infantry (from HBG).
However, I maintain fantasies of repainting my Italians tyrian purple, and creating a more “scenario-neutral” game where Italy can influence other minor powers, so having the excess of naval craft might come in handy some day (but probably not).
Redking,
I’m sorry but I may not have explained myself properly;
I bought 20 FMG Rifle Infantry (from HBG) to be used as “Regular” Infantry. These are to be painted in the Italian Desert Drab scheme by “Allworkandnoclay”.
I bought 6 FMG Machine Gun Infantry (from HBG) to be used as “Special Forces” Infantry. These are to be painted in the Italian European Camo scheme by “Allwork”.
Are you familiar with “Allwork” and his paint schemes. If not you can use the “link” in Reply #15 above to see all of his AWESOME paint jobs. There’s about 35+ pages on his thread but you can easily blitz through them if you’re only looking for the pics of his AWESOME paint jobs.
I hope I explained myself better this time.
“Tall Paul”
Don’t have a use for the transports, armoured cars and trucks so I bagged them and stored them with the rest of the spare pieces I’ve got).
The Armored Cars are FMG’s Mechanized Infantry piece for the Italians. Do you not use Mech Inf in your game? Or do you just prefer the OOB halftracks?
I actually like the halftracks. I’d use the trucks for the Italian Mech Inf but they are massive. Maybe I’ll use the armoured cars and try it out.
Hey All, got my FMG Italians today. They look fantastic. Plus, the darker brown color contrasts with my brown carpet so I can find them easier (dropped a submarine, found it right away). I got 5 sets cause I’m just crazy about having lots of pieces for my games (prefer not to use chips if possible). The piece count varied some from set to set, but overall I think I did pretty well. Out of a possible 780 total pieces, I had 18 missing pieces and 7 extra pieces for a net loss of only -11 pieces. The weirdest one was 1 set was missing 4 of 6 aircraft carriers. I didn’t expect to be missing any of those. Here is a breakdown for each set. All pieces were at the proper count unless noted:
Set 1 = Missing - 1 Tac Bomber, 4 Aircraft Carriers Extra - 1 Strategic Bomber
Set 2 = Missing - 1 Tac Bomber, 4 Cruisers Extra - 1 Strategic Bomber, 3 Destroyers
Set 3 = Missing - 1 Carro Armato, 1 Aircraft Carrier, 1 Cruiser Extra - 1 Semovente, 1 Destroyer
Set 4 = Missing - 2 Artillery, 2 Fighters, 1 Transport plane, 2 Destroyers Extra - 1 Submarine, 1 Transport ship
Set 5 = Absolutely Perfect, no missing, no extra
So not so bad. A little peeved with the first 2 sets (4 carriers, 4 cruisers) because I think that’s a bit much, but overall still really good. Plus, there were a LOT of sets for them to deal with. These things happen. I can pick up the extras at HBG so everything will be cool. Here are pics of my pieces, all FIVE sets. Quite an army. First is Land and Air units, second is all the Naval Units and the third is my new container for them.
Now I’m looking forward to the Germans.
