6 second unboxing video posted

And here’s the other one, which I had to split.

So Hannover is south of Berlin?? That`s like Chicago beeing south of Washington  :lol:

The area should be named Dresden or maybe Frankfurt but Hannover is not correct

Thanks for the effort CWO Marc, I would think DJ will be posting some still shots of the map in a day or two so we can see the territory boarders and IPC values better.

sculpts look outstanding

Still can’t make out which headgear the Germans are wearing…

Tanks look a lot slimmer and better proportioned than the scans.

Planes might even be usable…

What counts for overcrowding is the size of the chips. I suppose if they were any smaller they’d be liable to topple over; but tts like Lorraine might get 10 or more stacks in them at times.

Probably need some army boards and markers to make it playable.

Still can’t make out the colour of the UK units (a bit colour blind); are they tan or pale green?

Umm, I had to paint my MB edition Japanese pieces red as I couldn’t tell them apart from the UK units.

Had to paint one of my History of the World unit sets black too, as the two green piece colours were far too close.

The new Shogun/Ikusa looks horrendous too - main reason I didn’t buy it.

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/image/1032291/ikusa?size=large

Strangely enough, I don’t think I’ll have a problem distinguishing units in this edition, despite there being 8 colours including 3 (4?) greens!

@Siris101:

I think the UK units are very light green. But I’m also red green colorblind. Most of these colors looks really similar to me

I agree that the UK pieces are light green, though in one of the screenshots they look closer to pale cream (which I’m pretty sure is just a combination of the lighting and the low picture resolution).  Green is notoriously variable in its appearance under different lighting conditions (daylight, incandescent and fluorescent), so I was unhappy to learns that the 1914 game uses three different shades of green.  Just one would have been more than enough in my opinion.  I also can’t figure out the Italian colour, which is supposedly brown but which to me looks a lot closer to burnt orange.

@CWO:

I also can’t figure out the Italian colour, which is supposedly brown but which to me looks a lot closer to burnt orange.

I agree.

But brown is a shade of orange, so it’s understandable why it looks either way depending on the lighting.

Isn’t Turquoise also a shade of green? That makes four. Plus the Germans are in a greenish grey.

I can’t tell if the French are wearing kepi’s or the Adrian helmet. I assume the Adrian because the Italians are wearing them.

@Flashman:

Isn’t Turquoise also a shade of green?

I think it’s halfway between blue and green, so arguably we have either four shades of green (five if you count the German grey-green) or two shades of blue.

From the picture of the British sculpts, it looks as though the naval transport is an ocean liner – a good choice for a troop-transport ship, but not a good choice for a cargo vessel.

The tank (best seen in the French sculpt pack) would seem to be a British heavy tank (possibly a Mark IV, the most produced model as I recall) of the “male” type (which was armed with two sponson-mounted 6-pounder guns, one on each side).

All this talk of the sculpt colors makes me sick.  I want more rulebook previews and a map preview.  As long as I can tell the difference between the various armies, I could care less if they are hot pink or polka dotted.

@BJCard:

All this talk of the sculpt colors makes me sick.  I want more rulebook previews and a map preview.  As long as I can tell the difference between the various armies, I could care less if they are hot pink or polka dotted.

Best quote I’ve seen in this tread, and I 100% agree LOL. I could give a rats a$$ of what helmet the French have etc….I’ll be able to tell the difference between each power w/o looking twice (even you color blind ppl have a chance because most colors are very bright). Plus all these new colors are going to work well as upgraded or minor powers in other games.

@CWO:

From the picture of the British sculpts, it looks as though the naval transport is an ocean liner – a good choice for a troop-transport ship, but not a good choice for a cargo vessel.

I think an ocean liner is perfect. They were used for many purposes during the war, even carrying butter and cheese to the Royal Navy’s Weapons Testing Establishment at Shoeburyness, Essex.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Lusitania#What_war_munitions_was_she_actually_carrying.3F

@wove100:

I think an ocean liner is perfect. They were used for many purposes during the war, even carrying butter and cheese to the Royal Navy’s Weapons Testing Establishment at Shoeburyness, Essex.

Yes, I can see why the Weapons Testing Establishment would be interested in an innocent shipment of cheese: Charlie Chaplin’s 1918 movie Shoulder Arms shows some limburger cheese being used as a weapon of war.

UHMM…

Is it just me?  or does the italian in the centre of the italian piece bag have a bunch of PLASTIC GOOP between his arms and rifle?

Looks like that one was not cut properly. But you can see a couple other infranty that are fine.