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John Brown

The last pictures are the V-1 and V-2 rockets, I hope this helps in all your purchase decisions. :-D

John

HBG

Glad you like them

John Brown

@coachofmany:

Glad you like them

Thanks Coach, and they will look awesome on your amazing new map you are making! Can’t wait. :-)

PS I had to edit some of these posts, because I put OOB as well as regular HBG pieces for size comparison.

LHoffman

Great pics John. These really do help give a better impression of them.

John Brown

@LHoffman:

Great pics John. These really do help give a better impression of them.

Thanks, that was the goal of mine, to give a better look at them, so that everyone can decide what they want to purchase. :-)

toblerone77

Any progress on the US pre-order?

HBG

@toblerone77:

Any progress on the US pre-order?

No, trying to get the Amerika pieces done.

CWO Marc

I have a question about this item from HBG Newsletter #38 (July 2015), which arrived in my mailbox this morning:

“The boxed game we’ve been working on is finally coming together! Plastic is in from China (round 2) and we are quality checking and assembling games over the next month. These will soon be going out to the great Kickstarter backers that have endured a long journey beside us to finish this up. Once all of our backers’ items have been shipped, we can focus on getting this game to more of you. Here are a few pics from the QC process. That’s a lot of grey plastic!”

All the pieces shown in the pictures are indeed grey. Is this because we’re only seeing German units? The HBG page for the Amerika game shows the German pieces are planned to be grey but the American pieces are planned to be green and the Japanese pieces are planned to be orange.

HBG

@CWO:

I have a question about this item from HBG Newsletter #38 (July 2015), which arrived in my mailbox this morning:

“The boxed game we’ve been working on is finally coming together! Plastic is in from China (round 2) and we are quality checking and assembling games over the next month. These will soon be going out to the great Kickstarter backers that have endured a long journey beside us to finish this up. Once all of our backers’ items have been shipped, we can focus on getting this game to more of you. Here are a few pics from the QC process. That’s a lot of grey plastic!”

All the pieces shown in the pictures are indeed grey. Is this because we’re only seeing German units? The HBG page for the Amerika game shows the German pieces are planned to be grey but the American pieces are planned to be green and the Japanese pieces are planned to be orange.

Correct:

Germany: Grey
Allies: Green
Japanese: Pumpkin Orange

CWO Marc

Thanks Coach – much appreciated.

HBG

Since Wizards of the Coast is not supplying prizes this year at Gencon, Greg asked if we could step it up on prizes so we sent a boat load of prizes plus one “Amerika” game. I told Greg that the game is the box, board, rules, etc but NO playing pieces. We will send the winner the pieces after our Kickstarter backers have received theirs but we wanted to take care of the AAA community and help Greg out. I am sure it does not hurt to advertise “Amerika” as a prize at Gencon since since we started the project our costs have nearly doubled. Thanks for all the support you have given HBG over the years.
Doug

knp7765

@CWO:

I have a question about this item from HBG Newsletter #38 (July 2015), which arrived in my mailbox this morning:

“The boxed game we’ve been working on is finally coming together! Plastic is in from China (round 2) and we are quality checking and assembling games over the next month. These will soon be going out to the great Kickstarter backers that have endured a long journey beside us to finish this up. Once all of our backers’ items have been shipped, we can focus on getting this game to more of you. Here are a few pics from the QC process. That’s a lot of grey plastic!”

All the pieces shown in the pictures are indeed grey. Is this because we’re only seeing German units? The HBG page for the Amerika game shows the German pieces are planned to be grey but the American pieces are planned to be green and the Japanese pieces are planned to be orange.

In one of the Kickstarter updates they said that they were doing the German pieces first because they were the largest set.
For the game itself, each faction (Allies, Germany, Japan) has 8 different unique sculpts to QC and package up for the games. The Allies have a slightly higher quantity of pieces, 80 as opposed to 60 each for the Axis powers, but I don’t know if that would really make much difference in QC and package time.
It’s the expansion pieces where you really see the difference. HBG has authorized 20 different sculpts as expansion pieces, of which Germany gets 9, Japan gets 6 and Allies get 5.
So, all totaled the Germans will have 17 unique sculpts to check, Japan will have 14 and the Allies will have 13.

Each game will have 200 total units. Each expansion set will have 100 total units. I believe Doug told me that the plastic order was enough to fill 750 games so even without expansion pieces that is a total of 150,000 pieces to QC and bag. If yo0 add just 1 expansion set per game, that brings it up to 225,000 pieces. Man, having to count and look over that many little plastic pieces could make you stir crazy.

By the way, for those of you not fully familiar with the game, the expansion pieces I mentioned are for later on when you have played the basic game a few times and want to add something new. Most of them are technological advancements that could give an edge to the Allied or Axis players. Some have potential to be added to Global games as well.
Actually, I guess you could add the expansion pieces right away if you wanted. Personally, I want to try out the basic game itself a few times to get familiar with the rules and unit characteristics before adding new pieces. I think HBG will be providing rules for the expansion pieces either with the games or as a download from the HBG site.

LHoffman

Any updates on the US/UK/German sets? Been a while and I haven’t seen any news on their status. At this point I am going to have to go back through my emails to remember what I have ordered.

Like anyone else, I am happy to see work on the one-off novelty pieces like Axis/Ally superweapons, but it seems like the focus is all on these (and other small games) right now and not on continuing the A&A Expansion/Supplemental sets.

Those are the real bread and butter of HBG for me and what gets me far more excited than anything else.

Here’s hoping…

CWO Marc

An update on Amerika would be appreciated too. It was announced at the end of July that the plastic components had arrived and that the games would be QC’d and assembled “over the next month” for shipping.

georgemak1

I think there is something wrong with the Chinese factory. We did the preordering, as a community project and I think we are entitled to any new information that becomes available, good or bad.

knp7765

They got all the plastic pieces qc’d (both for the basic game and the expansions) and are putting games together now. Order shipping will begin October 1 and carry on throughout the month of October (there were a lot of backers for this game).
All the work on getting this game together and coming up with the new rules for the expansion units was just too intensive for a couple of guys who also have regular lives/jobs/families on top of all they do for HBG. In spite of all the advances they have made in the past couple of years, HBG is still a relatively small company with only 2 or 3 guys doing all this work. So further supplement/expansion sets and games simply had to be put on hold for a bit while they nurtured this very demanding new “baby” into health.
Once the games are shipped during October, I’m sure other projects will get back into gear. The US Expansion sets already have the 3-D models made with the first sample sculpts in the HBG webpage photo. So at least that set isn’t starting from scratch.
I’m a little impatient too. I’ve had money sitting in my Paypal account just waiting to pay for the pre-order on Germany 3 sets. Too bad Paypal accounts don’t give you interest.

LHoffman

Thanks for the update KNP.

LHoffman

@LHoffman:

Oh ��…

Check out what I found.

http://www.historicalboardgaming.com/Proposed-Games_c_550.html

Am I behind the times here?

http://www.historicalboardgaming.com/Proposed-Games_c_550.html

CWO Marc

@LHoffman:

@LHoffman:

Oh ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½…

Check out what I found.

http://www.historicalboardgaming.com/Proposed-Games_c_550.html

Am I behind the times here?

http://www.historicalboardgaming.com/Proposed-Games_c_550.html

Interesting discovery. The phrasing is rather ambiguous. Some parts (like the notes “A new game in the works. Please put yourself on the waiting list so we gauge it’s popularity.”) suggest that HBG is simply polling its customers to assess their interest, without any commitment being required. Other parts (specifically, the 0-50-150-250-300 categories) imply that money is being either collected (as in pre-orders) or pledged (sort of like Kickstarter) in order to make the project actually move forward. Some entries have prices and some don’t. So I don’t know what to make of any of this. Without more information, I won’t be clicking on any of the buttons.

LHoffman

Good catch Marc. I didn’t even see that.

Discussion started on a different thread because supposedly there is voting going on, but I haven’t really seen any. Here at least.

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