@Private:
Just worked out what CWO stands for! You deserve a promotion!
Thanks. Actually I’m a civilian (though with a longstanding interest in naval history), and the Chief Warrant Officer part of my forum name is just an invention for online purposes, so I’m quite happy to keep that designation in perpetuity.
By the way, in terms of your long-term gaming plans, keep in mind that it you ever acquire the full range of A&A games (an ambition which that many forum members here will endorse enthusiastically, since they’ve done the same thing themselves) and you then wonder “Where do I go from here?” after mastering them, there’s unlimited potential in exploring house rules and other ways of introducing some variety into the official games. There’s a whole section of the forum dedicated to house rules, including ways of using the large range of new unit sculpts sold by Historical Board Gaming:
http://www.historicalboardgaming.com/Battle-Pieces-Sets-By-Country_c_14.html
And of course there’s always the hope that Larry Harris will produce new A&A games in the future, or at least new editions of the current ones. But even without any future new games, house rules (your own or those of other forum members) allow players to get a lot of additional mileage out of the existing A&A line.