HBG's Amerika Game ON KICKSTARTER NOW - FUNDED!

knp7765

I just checked out the latest Kickstarter update from HBG. Great pictures of the box and components. The outer box, storage boxes, game cards, roundels and map all look absolutely fantastic. Very professional job too. I will love to see this game on the shelves at my local game shop. Excellent job Coach and Variable!!

By the way Coach, do you know if Hobbytown USA here in Wichita will be stocking AMERIKA?

Flashman

Maybe if this does well an alternative scenario with a global map and the USSR as a 4th power:

Set in the same period, but the 4 power blocks have fought each other to a standstill. Germany would have expanded to swallow eastern Europe and north Africa, and much of the middle east. Japan will have completed the occupation of China, and maybe driven through India to meet Germany in Persia. USA & what remains of the UK’s empire is merged into a single power controlled from Washington. The Soviet government has moved from threatened Moscow to the relative safety of the Urals.

The idea would be that as a result of primitive nuclear weapons and economies devastated by war, power are no longer able to manufacture and maintain advanced weapons. What you start with in terms of bombers, jest, battleships and so on is what you get - nobody has the capacity to build any more. After a few turns you will no longer be able to maintain complicated machinery, and the units will become redundant. That’s when the new cavalry and archer units come into their own…

knp7765

So you are suggesting a 20th century world war using 16th century weapons? This reminds me of a quote which I think was from Albert Einstein. “I don’t know how they will fight WWIII, but WWIV will be fought with sticks and stones.”

CWO Marc

@knp7765:

So you are suggesting a 20th century world war using 16th century weapons? This reminds me of a quote which I think was from Albert Einstein. “I don’t know how they will fight WWIII, but WWIV will be fought with sticks and stones.”

It also sounds a bit like the multi-decade war shown in the 1936 sci-fi film Things to Come. WWII (predicted by H.G. Wells) breaks out in 1940 and is initially fought with late-1930s vintage weapons. As the years and decades go by, it is fought with increasingly sophisticated weapons (including streamlined Art Deco tanks), but eventually civilization collapses under the strain. By the 1970s, fur-clad local warlords are fighting each other in a plethora of localized conflicts, their “troops” consisting of ragtag rabbles armed with rifles and mounted on horseback. The local population is kept informed of developments by means of communiques written in chalk on a large blackboard in the ruins of what used to be a public square.

Flashman

Also partly inspired by this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFWzpM9re64

Also wonder if anyone’s made a 1984 wargame?

Flashman

Rough idea of a global map, based on one of my old WWII creations:

Germany has taken over Western Europe including Britain. Spain throws in its lot with Germany in return for Morocco. Ireland is united under German rule. Russia has driven Germany back to the starting positions of 1941, but has been attacked in the far East by Japan, which has completed the conquest of China and Australia.

A remnant of the British Empire survives around the periphery of the Indian Ocean

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Narvik

I paid years ago and start to get tired of waiting, anybody know how long to this game is actually coming to my home ?

knp7765

They are still waiting on the plastic game pieces. From what I understand, they were finished at the Chinese factory and shipped to the US. The problem now is the dock worker problems with strikes and such. Once the union and management can come to some agreement, then our stuff will finally get trucked to HBG and they can put our games together and ship them to us.

Tall Paul

Guys,
––I received an e-mail yesterday stating that HBG was now starting to ship the complete AMERIKA games to the Kickstarter backers which will necessarily take a little while to complete. But things are “HAPPENING!”

Tall Paul

knp7765

Hey Paul,
That is not all. You should check out their Facebook page. The US set is all made and packaged up for shipping to HBG. Also they have some pics of the prototype sculpts for the new German set. All very exciting.

knp7765

Hey Everybody,
I got my first pieces for the AMERIKA game. I haven’t gotten my games yet but I’m sure they will be here any day now. The HBG crew have a LOT of work packaging all of this stuff for all the backers. I got my Expansion pieces and the reinforcements for the Allies though and I must say they are really cool.
Great detail, but of course we’re used to that from HBG by now. First is a pic of the German expansion pieces.
Second pic is of the Allied and Japanese expansion pieces.

By the way, in case some of you didn’t know this, the M-6 Medium Tank in the Allied Expansion pieces was actually conceived in 1942 for use as a heavy tank by the US Army and a couple of prototypes were actually built. However, they decided that the M-4 Sherman tank was adequate for the Army’s needs and the M-6 simply was not needed so it was discontinued.
I saw a model kit for this tank in a military magazine and was half tempted to order it for the novelty.

knp7765

A couple of more pics for everyone.
First the Allied regular game pieces.
Second is the King Tiger next to the Tiger 1 from the first German set. I think the scale is near perfect.
It occurs to me that some of these expansion pieces are probably more for working into the various Global games (G40, G39, G36) than for AMERIKA. After all, while the King Tiger tank was a boost up in heavy tanks during WW2, it would kind of be a step down from the heavy tanks available in the AMERIKA scenario. Also, the Jet Seaplane probably doesn’t have a lot of use since this is mostly a land-based game.
Of course, maybe I am just not using enough imagination. I imagine any of us can use these pieces any way we please.
I will probably share more pics when I get the rest of my stuff.

Witt

I happy for you Knp. Thanks for the pics.

John Brown

Thanks Knp for showing us these pictures. :-D

sophiedog2

Is there any way to still get the expansion pieces?

John Brown

@sophiedog2:

Is there any way to still get the expansion pieces?

After all kick starter pledges get their games, they will go on sale sometime later, but not till all kick starter, as well as pre-orders, are filled. :-)

P-Unit

Does any store other than HBG sell this game, or do we have to order it from their webstore?

HBG

Noble Knight Games will carry it with a few others.

knp7765

Hey Everybody!
I got my games this week. I’ve spent the last couple of days checking everything out. Lots of cool stuff here. Of course I have pics to share with you all. Check it out.
First is the box. The cardboard surface of the box and inner components are very high quality and professional looking. Comparable to the Axis & Allies 50th Anniversary game. Very nice.

I tried earlier to attach 2 pics to this post but kept getting an error message so I will try one at a time. It will take a lot of posts but I guess that’s okay.

knp7765

Here is with the box open showing the parts boxes. They fit a little tight at first but I think over time and use they will loosen up some. At least you don’t spill all your parts.
At either end of the box are simple spacers to keep everything in place.

HBG's Amerika Game ON KICKSTARTER NOW - FUNDED!

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