Next Nation to sculpt at HBG

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

Don’t forget that the Gurkhas used a hat kinda similar to the Aussie hat.  I think a hat-wearing Commonwealth/ FEC soldier would be one of my highest priorities for a UK-oriented set.  Perhaps even a second in proper Gurkha-gear wielding a kukri overhead!  With FMG doing KBV, Nelson would be a good choice, as I hear WotC is doing Hood (strange choice though it is) for their joint-allied BB in AA41.

The Aussie Sentinels and Canadian Ram/Grizzle series were not used much, and are basically derived from US tanks (M3/M4 series) anyways.  I’d rather see someone do some of the late-war tanks for the UK set proper: Comet or Cromwell, maybe, though I don’t know what FMG is doing.  The Cromwell was the second-most used UK tank after…. drum-roll, please… the Sherman!  Yes folks, the Brits used more Shermans than any one particular tank of their own design.  The Churchill is distinctive and cool-looking, so I wouldn’t mind having some, but the fact remains that it really wasn’t that great of a tank, and the British couldn’t wait to get their hands on Shermans because, quite frankly, they were better than anything the Brits produced until the Comet and the Centurion (the latter of which came too late to see action.)

(OK, the Cromwell was better than the original Sherman in some ways, especially mobility, but it was too tight of a design for its gun to be upgraded, unlike the Sherman.)  Anyway, the Comet comes closest to being something that the UK player could used as a “heavy” tank upgrade, since, unlike the Churchill, its gun was at least competitive and its superior mobility gave it some advantages over the Tigers.  Yes, the Churchill was a comparatively “heavy” tank, but what’s the point of a “heavy” tank with a weak gun and thin armor that was way less mobile than a Tiger on top of it all?

On the topic of what to do next, how about completing the neutral set and sculpting a BB, CV, sb and a tac?

@jim010:

On the topic of what to do next, how about completing the neutral set and sculpting a BB, CV, sb and a tac?

I would love this, but doubt it will happen. I favor complete sets by far.

@jim010:

On the topic of what to do next, how about completing the neutral set and sculpting a BB, CV, sb and a tac?

I’ve noticed that the “dark grey” used for the axis minor set exactly matches the grey Germans from classic, and the brown they use for Italy exactly matches the brown Russians from classic.  I would bet that the yellow neutrals might be a close match to the classic Japanese.  So maybe you could recycle some of your old classic units.

i  mentioned a list before of what would be nice to see in the next neutral set. but before that i think other actual nations sets need to be completed, such as the Brits and their commonwealth, japan, france, italy, ect ect… but i agree would love to see another neutral filling in the missing units.

A sub would be nice for the neutrals, but doesn’t HBG’s set already have a tac?  As for larger ships, when you get past the major powers (assuming that you include France and Italy in “major powers”), no one else really had much worth noting; maybe an elderly stray dreadnought or two or perhaps coastal BB’s (which were basically like slow heavy cruisers, capability-wise), but probably a cruiser is adequate to approximate the actual combat capability of any minor power’s largest gun-oriented ships.  CV’s were pretty much unheard-of for the minor powers until the post-war period, when many bought or were given older US or UK ships.  (Even then, such elderly CV’s were, relatively speaking, more like the CVE’s of their day, capability-wise.)