FMG
Exactly how do you make the sculps? Can you make them from a 3D graphic or to you take a plastic model, scan it into a 3D model, then make the mold from that? Maybe knowing a little bit more about the process might help in having other people provide you with a greater selection of sculps.
I agree with IL. You win for the best A&A pieces I’ve ever seen!
Your pieces are very nice!
Out of curiosity, who made these kits? I take it you bought the units and painted them?
Whitewolf
Pretty much everything you have mentioned has been said at one point. I think FMG is going to start with the basic plus a few of the most popular request. If all goes well, I’m sure they will add more.
If you go back around 10 pages, I think FMG gave a list of what they are going to make for the first round.
Thank you Sir for the update!
Gents
You’re starting to drift a little here. Lets stay focused on the game pieces.
I would prefer to stick with tech items that were actually built during WWII. I would include proto-types in this definition. If a country cannot met this qualification if they had at least one test trial. If a country could not meet this requirement, we could do one of two option.
1. They could use a proto type design that was closest to having a proto type built.
2. They use an allies tech unit.
One thing I’m not in favor of is jets using Long Range technology. No jet simply could not match a long range prop aircraft.
Should allies of the US have a sculpt for a generic transport, and Sherman tanks and basic arty as a potential lend-lease participant?
Nice one Dino. I like that.
With all these new pieces coming out, I think FMG is going to have to make a deluxe carry case to hold all of these :-D
I would like to see transports too.
Let’s remember if we want to keep the price reasonable we can’t possibly expect FMG to put every piece we all would like to see in the set.
I agree. I think for most people, it would be easier on the pocket book to buy pieces in smaller sets rather than a few large or one big package.
Is there really a need for pieces to represent ports, air bases etc?
I think if these are made, it would prefer that these would be made as markers rather than plastic pieces. That way, you can place pieces on top of them.
Most of all I’d go for enough units to represent all plausible techs, as I firmly believe that techs should be separate units newly built rather than magic upgrades.
I strongly agree with this!
This includes standardising aircraft as:
single engine fighter - standard
twin engine fighter - long rangetwin engine bomber - standard
four engine bomber - long range/heavy
I disagree with this approach. I think the best way for this is to make the unit that it represents. Perhaps additional ways to help identify technology pieces would be to make them a darker or lighter shade of color of the country they belong to or add a nation’s flag decal to them.
How about
Field Marshal (or FMG) WWII Board Game Miniatures or
Field Marshal (or FMG) WWII Miniatures
While your at it. If you can add some 2 engine medium bombers, I would greatly appreciate it :-D
IL
When is the AA42 supposed to come out?
Thanks
your wrong, not one truck in the whole history of World War Two transported infantry or supplies single handedly a thousand miles. If you have ever looked at a map of Europe or the Pacific ocean this would be pretty obvious. Certainly you dont think their were trucks driving from the Factories in the Urals to the Kursk salient! All strategic movement of land units was done by trains.
Actually the Allies did use trucks for strategic movement of personnel and supplies. It was called the Red Ball Express. Thousands of trucks delivered tons of supplies and soldiers to the front line from Normandy, Antwerp and other ports after D-Day. The majority of truck drivers were American-Africans.
If you give the trucks the ability to transport men 2 spaces the cost must go up at least 1-2 IPC.
here is a new idea:
trucks: considered like land transports and if attacked are removed and cant be soakers…
during NCM they can transport 2 infantry or 1 infantry and one Artillery TWO SPACES if they start in the same space.
the cost of these units is 4 IPC and again they dont attack or defend.
I’m still unsure if I would want to add trucks into the game. But if I did, I would go the way IL suggested.
You can only drop as many Airborne as you have bombers and follow all OOB rules.
IL are you also implying that they have to be delivered by Bombers or you can only buy as many as bombers as you have?
Also, what are OOB rules?
Thanks