Do any Modern type games like A&A exist?

In the meantime, there’s this:

http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?topic=22218.0

It’s one of the Axis and Allies Express games that some board members have been working on.

now all it needs are your pieces

Yeah, I saw this item too.  In fact, I was watching it just to see if it sold.  The auction ended without a sale and the seller has relisted it.  I couldn’t believe the price when I first saw it.

Did anyone check out the game pieces?  They look pretty cool but are quite a bit bigger than A&A pieces.  He has some pics comparing them.  The factories are HUGE.  A lot of the land pieces, particularly infantry and AA guns, are on these big bases the size of poker chips.  In fact, you are supposed to use poker chips for stacking purposes.  You would need such a huge map to handle all of those larger pieces.  The aircraft carrier piece he showed next to an A&A aircraft carrier and it dwarfed the A&A piece.  The ships are almost as big as the A&A Miniatures pieces, but not quite.

I wouldn’t mind having a copy of that game just to check it out but not at $1250.  Maybe if I were a millionaire with money to throw away, but unfortunately I’m a simple working stiff.

http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?topic=16012.0

Just thinking that the people who make these dice should be the author of this thread. But no matter.

Field Marshall games would be making them once they sell out their AA dice plus the special Italian, French and Chinese ones. Once they get them going they look into new ideas and tokens are on the list as i hear it.

I try to implement a scale when it comes to Russia and the US.  Russia whenever it takes occupied nations back from the Germans can either add it to her territory and recieve IPs for it or she can liberate it without gaining any IPs.  The more territories she takes for her own the closer she goes to war with the US and Britian.  Eventually aid is suspended and after a while war is declared.  After that my friends and I have many rules about what happens afterward.  Also the scale to which these consequences occur varies, but it works.

I’ve found that AAE and AAP combined is quite a lot of fun, but the way I play has been modified quite a bit:

-Every chinese territory is worth one, and americas total production is 44.
-Uks total production is 44
-Germanys prod. is 40
-Japan’s prod. is 24 (japan island value increased to 10)
-Russias prod. is 24
-India is directly connected to the adjacent middle eastern countries, tsingha is directly connected to the adjacent russian countries
-Axis goal is to capture two capitols: UK, india, new south wales, EUS, Moscow.
-Allied goal is to capture germany and japan.

The game is surprisingly very well balanced, and offers a nice change from normal A and A which gets repetitive. But yeah, setup is a bitch.