Question About Fighters/bombers in Axis+Allies Europe

@CWO:

@Warhawk77:

Starting to play more and I was wondering do all the box sets have the game pieces in the same scale?

The short answer is “mostly yes”.� The longer answer is a bit more complicated.� From game to game, A&A sculpts have generally been on the same scale when you compare units belonging to the same unit class; in other words, specific sculpt X will generally be the same size no matter which game it comes from.� Within each class, however, scales can vary; for instance, the Yamato and Iowa battleship sculpts are roughly the same size, even though in reality Yamato was much bigger than Iowa.� There’s even more variation between unit classes, the most extreme case being the scale of the infantry sculpts and the scale of the battleship / carrier sculpts.�

There have also been some cases of scale changes for specific units.� The British and German battleship sculpts became larger and more detailed when many of the sculpts were “refreshed” at one point.� The German 88mm sculpt went from being small (and mis-representing field artillery) to being large (and correctly representing an AAA gun), and the same thing happened to the Stuka (which originally mis-represented a fighter rather than a dive bomber).� And note that the ANZAC infantry sculpt is somewhat notorious for being rather large compared with other infantry units.

Reading the reply I see I should have asked the question better. I should not have used the term scale as the pieces are different scales compared to each others but you fully understood what I was trying to say so thank you.

I will point out I had never thought about the different types of planes and guns that the sculpts are until you pointed it out so now I will have to go thru my games and compare them all.  :-D I know I’m helpless and get sidetracked very easy maybe a little ADD on my part, but what else would I do tomorrow?

Thanks Again

That answers it, thanks for the reply.

Oh IF you build a decent army you can get carriers to travel with them plus carriers take to hits to take out :-D

I believe that you are correct. It has been awhile since I’ve played Europe. But I think that if the Destroyer is sunk then the attack is over.

That might be in the FAQ found here:

http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=ah/faqs/axiseurope

with Germany you start out with 40 ipcs.  Usually you spend all of that on stuff - armor and infantry mainly. 
If you take over 2 ipcs worth of territory and had not lost any, then at the end of your turn, you collect 40 + 2 ipcs = 42 ipcs.

Now if you did not purchase anything at the beginning of your turn, then you collect 40 (your starting income that you already had at the beginning of your turn) + 42 (what you collect this turn) = 82 ipcs.  So yes - you may puchase 3 battleships . . . for some reason . . . if you choose . . . .

Yes they can. All three allies can be in the same space even, and they all defend together. So if the UK has 1 inf in karelia, US has 1 inf in karelia, and Russia has 1 inf in karelia, if germany attacks karelia they are attacking ALL units in that space, so in this case, 3 infantry.

Last time I heard, Hasbro was planning on launching a remake of A&A with Europe and Pacific versions built in. My guess is that they stopped development of it. What a pity.

Agreed. The attack had better be supported well enough to avoid that scenario…