Next Nation to sculpt at HBG

for sure Canada needs some unique sculpts and colors, i dont mind South Africa not getting sculpts or colors, but for the FEC set India and anzac are really the only colors needed since India pretty much represents FEC.

Great Britain , Commonwealth, FEC / India sets.

Great Britain, Commonwealth Set : Same pieces, just different colours?
FEC/India Set : Same pieces as GB and Commonwealth, only need different infantry and maybe colour?
Anzac Set : Same pieces as GB and Commonwealth, only need different infantry and colour.

Do it this way, should be cost effective and speed up production?

@Lunarwolf:

for sure Canada needs some unique sculpts and colors, i dont mind South Africa not getting sculpts or colors, but for the FEC set India and anzac are really the only colors needed since India pretty much represents FEC.

Hi

Yeah, agree Canada should have some unique sculpts and colors.
Great Britain and South Africa same sculpts and colors.
FEC/India/ANZAC could all have same sculpts as Great Britain and Commonwealth, only different infantry sculpt, one in regular british summer uniform, one for India (with turban), and one for ANZAC.

Personally id like to see Anzac, Canada, FEC. But i would be happy with facilities as well. The naval base should have small warehouses with docks attached to it. as long as the airbase isn’t just a tower! it needs the actual strip with it.

Ideas for Great Britain, Commonwealth Set : unique sculpts could be

British:
Churchill tank; great heavy tank
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Churchill_tank

Light Tank Mk VI: Light tank for the british.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_Tank_Mk_VI

A British commando unit is needed maybe to represent paratroopers.

HMS Hood: early war battleship
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Hood_(51)

Canada
Ram Mk II it has a unique look to it plus its Canadian
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ram_tank

Grizzly I cruiser could double over as British Sherman.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grizzly_I_cruiser

Mk III helmet Infantry would be a great addition to the UK set. Both the UK and Canadians used it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mk_III_helmet

South africa
Marmon-Herrington Armoured Car Mk IV nice unique armored car and unique to south africa
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marmon-Herrington_Armoured_Car

MAYBES?
South African infantry
http://www.google.com/imgres?hl=en&sa=X&biw=1163&bih=704&tbm=isch&tbnid=U-zydns4PE7n7M:&imgrefurl=http://www.war2hobby.cl/foro/viewtopic.php%3Fp%3D29230&docid=xqBID6y1t86U1M&imgurl=http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m174/RobertoR_2006/Uniformes-WWII/uniformes_36.jpg&w=800&h=600&ei=4Nu_T9rOMcraiQLGuMGYCA&zoom=1&iact=rc&dur=422&sig=101493835008286713174&page=1&tbnh=152&tbnw=202&start=0&ndsp=15&ved=1t:429,r:8,s:0,i:89&tx=99&ty=59

The problem with UK is they are so with there infantry it would be a shame if South African and the Canadians are represented in game

@supermestizo:

Great Britain , Commonwealth, FEC / India sets.

Great Britain, Commonwealth Set : Same pieces, just different colours?
FEC/India Set : Same pieces as GB and Commonwealth, only need different infantry and maybe colour?
Anzac Set : Same pieces as GB and Commonwealth, only need different infantry and colour.

Do it this way, should be cost effective and speed up production?

i agree with this except anzac has a couple of of unique units

Sentinel tank
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentinel_tank

CAC Boomerang
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAC_Boomerang

plus to save money it should be 2 different sets the UK/CANADA/South Africa in 3 colors
than  the  FEC/India/Anzac set in 2 colors

Hi

I think you got some good suggestions here Lunarwolf.

It would be awesome if HBG would make unique sculpts and sets for all of those countries, Great Britain, Canada, South Africa, Far East Command / India and ANZAC.
Some sculpts could be used all over, but also give the different nations unique sculpts where it should be.

I voted UK and I think that it should also be done in ANZAC OOB colors. One set two nations. maybe even in OOB france color too. and fourth color for Canada.

one more unit for Australia could be the Phaeton class cruiser

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMAS_Sydney_(1934)

If I were designing a UK set these would be the units I would pick to use.

Airborne Infantry x4
Bedford Trucks x2
Gloster Meteor x2
Hawker Hurricane x2
Bofors Antiaircraft Artillery x2 (if A&A '41 uses the Bofors for AA Art. then add two more Commandos)
Bren Gun Carrier x2
Centurion x2
Short Sterling Bomber x2
Nelson Class Battleship x2
17 Pounder Artillery x2
Commandos x2
Bristol Buckingham x2
T Class Submarine x2

With this set, other than the Liberty ship, the British would have all there own units instead of using recolored American pieces.

If it is UK, then I want a KGV for a battleship.

I could deal with the Archer, Firefly Sherman, King George Battleship, Nelson Class Battleship and Implacables Class Aircraft Carrier. I would shy away from anything already done in the game by WOTC so no Halifax or Lancasters. If I really wanted to I could come up with enough British equipment for 2 sets.

If you do a UK set please include AAP40 Anzac grey for Canada and AA Revised UK Light green for Canada and maybe a new color for Far East Command.

Maybe also in forest green for Canada (AA Classic US).

rider an kinda agree with you it would be cool to see the UK/Canada/South Africa in
OOB tan for UK
Forest green for Canada
maybe Dday blonde for South africa

and for anzac/FEC
OOB pewter for anzac
and maybe that revised Sea-foamish green for indian/FEC

@jim010:

If it is UK, then I want a KGV for a battleship.

I know UK is a ways off yet (heck, we’re still waiting on our German pieces, then have to see what happens with USA), but FMG plans on having the King George V for their UK Battleship. So if HBG does a UK Battleship, they should do the Nelson.

@Lunarwolf:

Forest green for Canada
and maybe that revised Sea-foamish green for indian/FEC

I actually think it would be better to avoid using any types of green for British Commonwealth forces, to avoid confusion with American forces and with Chinese infantry.  It’s true that Revised used lime green for the British units, but that was a one-off aberration.  I’m glad they did it, because it allowed me to reassign the lime-green equipment pieces to China, whose infantry units are a similar shade, but I’m also glad that in other games Britain has been given variations of beige and tan pieces, which has the virtue of consistency.  Perhaps Commonwealth forces like Canada could be made in colours like butterscotch (as in the original Milton Bradley A&A game) or pale cream (like the British forces in A&A D-Day), to go with the British beige / tan colour pattern.

Since A7A already have the Matilda, Use a crusader for early war tanks to go with the Matilda as those were the most numerous types while early war A-10s or A-13s were the main cruiser tanks. The Mech inf should get the iconic Brit Bren carriers.

We have the early war tank (light) with the Matilda and we have the Mid War Tank (medium) with the Sherman I would be completely fine with just one tank if it was late war tank (Heavy)

i take back my vote for south africa being blonde. they are to clsoe to ivory , i rather see the blue grey that HBG had for their painted version of the South africans