Personally, I’d settle for just being able to order an extra set of playing pieces. I checked the Wizards of the Coast website, and as of right now, they have no plans to sell the playing pieces separately. I have plenty of pieces from the Milton Bradley version (I ordered an extra set from them), but they are now the wrong colors for Germany and Russia (although the old Russian brown looks pretty close to the Italian colors). Also, I have no pieces for cruisers, artillery, or tac bombers. But I do have (from Xeno) helicopters, armored cars, hovercraft, destroyers, and M1 tanks. I like to play with house rules allowing paratroops, marines, and air transports. I use the helicopters for air transports, the hovercraft for marines, and an infantry with a blue poker chip under it for a paratroop. I’ll have to come up with something different now.