Next Sets from Historical Board Gaming

The running infantry looks really neato!  I always like action poses.

@crenk:

I am thinking about using infantry from previous AA editions to represent neutral army strengths on the board. I am planning on spray painting based on strict neutral, favor allies etc. My question is this:  I have extras of every nation, so what model would be best to represent the different nations? In other words, which infantry would be the closest match to what the neutral nations army would have looked like?

MY THOUGHT SO FAR:

South America:
Venezuela-? American
Chile-? Germany
Argentina-? Germany
Brazil-? American

Africa:
Angola- UK
Mozambique- UK

Mid East:
Saudi Arabia-? UK
Iraq- Germany-? Yes
Persia-? UK
Afghanistan- UK

Europe:
Turkey- ? UK
Greece- ? UK
Bulgaria- Germany
Yugoslavia- ? UK
Switzerland- ? American
Spain- ? Germany
Portugal- ? American
Sweden- ? Germany
Finland- Germany

Asia:
Olgiy- USSR
Dzavham- USSR
Ulaanbaatar- China
Buyant Uhaa- China

Any insight or thoughts would be appreciated

Hi, my opinion in red in your post. Spain and Sweden were based from the political situation in A&A Global War 1939, where they can become pro-axis and Turkey pro-allies. Cheers

J.  8-)

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.

I think you should add cavalry because the British had a cavalry division at the start of the war. Also the ANZAC’s had cavalry divisions even though the did not use them in Gallopoli and will you include rules about terrain such as the hills in turkey that meant the ANZAC infantry became fodder. Also will there be sea units used for transportation? You could also create a tech that meant Art could fire poison rounds that decreased Inf def and also killed halve of Inf stack.

Good find, reloader-1.

I have been considering this question privately for some time too.  My own particular anoyance is that islands are completely surrounded by a single sea zone.  I think many islands should have more than one sea zone touching them.  For examnple, I think the Phillipine Islands should at least have an Asian side and a Pacific Ocean side.  I think Japan should have one sea zone with Korea, one to the south and another to the north and east.  While we are on the subject, I also do not understand why the sea zones have to end coincident with several (most) adjacent land borders.  This forces many strategic manuvers and I would appreciate some more tactical flexibility.  However, I see that the game is very delicately balanced (at least until someone finds a real deal breaker) so such tactical choices may make the game difficult to balance.

I would be interested in a more accurate Pacific map, including the expansion of the Pacific Ocean to its true size.  The biggest problem I see is that it may become unplayable for the Japanese.  Two factors that made it tenable for them was the hidden movement (for of war) of sea forces in general, and the benefit they received from their attack on Pearl Harbour.

My copies are of the 2nd version, otherwise I wouldn’t have recommended it.

The pieces are in the primary colours: red, blue, green & yellow.

Also the board is simpler, as you get a “console” for each player to store units, reserves etc:

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/image/82252/power?size=original

Also browsing around my collection I noticed these planes from Airways:

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/image/525846/airways?size=medium

Just wondered if people would prefer aircraft mounted on stands like this; you could have them on a peg that slotted into the stand or into a corresponding slot on a carrier.
More expensive to produce, but gives a more imposing impression of air power.