French Set…need help to finalize set.

Gents, I  personally use AirAFix, HO scale  and Hasegawa and Italeri and Escai 1/72nd troops.  If you have a problem with them falling over, just glue them to colored mini poker chips it works well.  I own about every type of WWII troop you can imagine.  From, Paras, SS, Marines, Red Guards, German and Italian Apline, French Foreign Legion, USSR Partisans, Rangers, Regular Army, Afrika Korps, 8th Army, Chinese, ANZAC, Commandos and US Airborne and so on.  Many are hand painted in authentic WWII uniform colors for their respective nations.  So more AA figures are great, but for me they are not required.
Coach,  French Foreign Legion in their Kepis are totally cool with a sub-machine gun.  Suggestion, maybe you will look at producing them for your French set.

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In particular, the French battleships and bombers that come with Europe 1940 are too obviously Russian.

If you were going to play with Vichy French/Free French, I would just use German units (Japanese in the Pacific, if there are any) for Vichy French units. I would use the remaining French units as Free French, but they are under Britain’s control until France is liberated. Similarly, with Italy, once Rome fell to the Allies, you could replace the units that remained pro-fascist with German units (Japanese in the Pacific, if there are any) and switch the remaining Italian units to the Allies.

I plan to use Pro-Axis units (Grey Germans from previous releases) for Vichy.

And they were only 5 cents a piece on your website!  :-D

Any plans for an SPG?

The Somua SAu 40 would suffice, thought it may look a bit identical to the SAU 35.

Here’s my 2 cents on Vichy France Color: it should be a Darker Blue than the OOB color. Germany Black, Italy Brown, It shows France “coming to the darkside”

Hmm,

A Darker Blue color to represent “Free French” troops set on revenge. An interesting idea.

“Tall Paul”

@Yavid:

Here’s my 2 cents on Vichy France Color: it should be a Darker Blue than the OOB color. Germany Black, Italy Brown, It shows France “coming to the darkside”

That’s one of the reasons why I use as Vichy pieces the dark blue standard infantry sculpts from The War Game: World War II (http://www.boardgamegeek.com/image/268592/the-war-game-world-war-ii?size=large).  The additional attraction is that the German-style uniform design establishes an extra connection between Vichy France and Germany.

I prefer light blue for Vichy and OOB for pre- defeat French.

Dark Blue for Free French

For those that do… why do you distinguish between Free French and “pre-defeat” French? Couldn’t you use the same color for both of these?

i agree why would you need a new color for free french when you should just keep them the default french color, or at least use the default color for one of them. my group we dont even need to have any difference in color since Vichy doesn’t move we just use the Vichy token on territories to represent Vichy units

Shouldn’t the french set be white?

I think dark blue would be sufficient.

I compelety agree. I don’t see a need nor do I want a different color for pre-defeat france, free france, and vichy france. Two colors will do fine (waves hand in a “these are not the drods your looking for” kind of way)

LOL, I play Hearts of Iron a lot and they represent Vichy as a Dark Blue-Dark Purple ish color.

you know the more i think about it. the more i like the idea of a dark purpleish/ dark blue color for vichy france. I worry about the oob blue being to close to the vichy blue. I see france and vichy france as Allied France (oob colors) and Axis France (called Vichy for most conversation but it’s basically just that France in the Axis powers) and I want the colors far enough apart not to cause confussion. So a dark purple sounds really good. No one else is purple or close to it.

Is there a new release date for the French set? we seem to have passed the original April 1st date. Just asking for an update.

Afraid that France got pushed back a bit. It seems that there was a bigger demand for the Neutrals so Coach went with them first. Next is Russia which has a June 30 approximate date. After that will be the 2nd German set with no date yet. I think France will come after the 2nd German set. Perhaps late August or September?

I believe Japan is in the queue before France as well. In the meantime, I use the OOB French for pre-defeat and Free French; and the light blue Neutral set for Vichy French. It will be nice to eventually not need blue Russians!