Pre-order Axis & Allies 1942 Second Edition

@Schrecki:

Where can i see a list with the All game stuff? So if i write them, i will bei Sure that i have all miniature.

410 plastic pieces

Soviet Units: 74 pieces

20 infantry
    8 artillery
    8 anti-aircraft artillery
    10 tanks
    8 fighters
    2 bombers
    4 transports
    4 subs
    4 destroyers
    2 cruisers
    2 aircraft carriers
    2 battleships

United Kingdom Units: 84 pieces

20 infantry
    6 artillery
    8 anti-aircraft artillery
    8 tanks
    8 fighters
    6 bombers
    6 transports
    6 subs
    6 destroyers
    4 cruisers
    2 aircraft carriers
    4 battleships

United States Units: 84 pieces

20 infantry
    6 artillery
    8 anti-aircraft artillery
    6 tanks
    8 fighters
    6 bombers
    6 transports
    6 subs
    6 destroyers
    4 cruisers
    4 aircraft carriers
    4 battleships

German Units: 86 pieces

20 infantry
    8 artillery
    8 anti-aircraft artillery
    12 tanks
    8 fighters
    4 bombers
    6 transports
    6 subs
    6 destroyers
    4 cruisers
    2 aircraft carriers
    2 battleships

Japan Units: 82 pieces

20 infantry
    6 artillery
    8 anti-aircraft artillery
    6 tanks
    8 fighters
    4 bombers
    6 transports
    6 subs
    6 destroyers
    4 cruisers
    4 aircraft carriers
    4 battleships

Pretty funny even though ive seen videos like this many times

If I understand correctly your rephrased question, you want to know if it’s possible to play an A&A board game (like A&A 1942) using the large-scale pre-painted models that are used in these product lines…

A&A Miniatures (Original)
A&A Naval Miniatures
A&A Air Force Miniatures

…rather than by using the very small unpainted plastic sculpts that come in the board game itself.  The short answer is no.  The A&A board games are designed to be played with large numbers of tiny sculpts placed on a map board.  The so-called “A&A miniatures” games use models that are gigantic in size compared to the ones in the board games, and there’s no way that they’d fit on an A&A map board.  Besides, you’d need to buy dozens or even hundreds of these “A&A miniatures” to have enough units to play an A&A board game, which would be fantastically expensive – assuming you could even find them on the market, because they’re a discontinued product line.

In principle, assuming that you owned the required dozens (or hundreds) of “A&A miniatures”, you could theoretically use them to play an A&A board game by keeping all the “A&A miniatures” in labeled groups off the board and representing them on the game map by smaller labeled markers or tiny sculpts…but in essence that would bring you right back to playing the board games with tiny sculpts – which is how they’re meant to be played in the first place.

Or how about this as another possibility. Instead of the Bid, Allies can move 1 factory to a new location.

For example, Russia could move the Karelia factory to Vologda. UK could move the factory from India to Eastern Canada, or Egypt, or South Africa.

Might work as well, for producing new strategies without breaking the first round battles.

Yeah that was when you could put a IC in your favorite Pafic Island and put in ungodly units in it!
The innocent years….lol

Great news, thanks  :-)

@Most:

Thank you. I wish there were more of the UK and German artilary units. They look Awesome.

@LuckyDay:

Units look very nice, although I’m still not sold on unique pieces for AA guns, something standard for everyone.  Why not make unique IC’s for each country in mark-3, after they start making ICs again…
Still, maybe this bodes well for better Italian units in the future instead of reusing Germany’s…

I agree; I just picked up my new copy at my FNGS all the new sculpts are an improvement and the new artillery pieces are a BIG improvement visually, aesthetically, and even tactilely, if that’s a word (i.e., they have a much more solid, quality feel to them.)  I’m not sold on the new AA rules; I think I may continue to use the old light grey pieces in their original role and use the new pieces as “dual-purpose” artillery.  The idea is that they can target 1 aircraft (and/ or maybe a tank too, making them “tri-purpose” ?) if they roll a “1.”  Not that I’ve thought through all the implications yet of this new “house rule” idea yet, but it’s worth thinking about.  I’ve already tried it in one game using the old German 88’s for dual-purpose “special units” and the new HBG 105’s for regular field artillery, and it seemed to work OK.  The new pieces just give everone the same possibility (and look much better to boot!)

yes just call AA42 Global 42