Posts made by John Brown

@Yavid:

I don’t play many games F2F the closest gaming group to where I live is a little over an hour away. So most of my games are me vs. me. I do Germany’s turn one day and Russia’s the next just to keep me objective. Games go on for months. So most of the stuff I do I don’t have anyone else to consider and it’s nice looking at the board and seeing by the pieces that are on it where about in the war I’m at.

Wow, I’m in the same boat, till I met Tall Paul, but he is still 2 hours away which makes it tough to get a game in, but most of the time. I do the same thing. I’m glad, I’m not the only one. 50th Anniversary Edition takes me at least a week to play, but Global I’m sure takes a lot longer by yourself. I’m just now learning the Global Game and when I get my man cave, I will have the game set up all the time, so I can resume it any time I want, but right now, I don’t have enough room to leave it one place for very long. My wife is not that patient, LOL. :-D

@Yavid:

@John:

@Yavid:

Every single time I set up France which is done last, I pull the pieces out and go to put the first tank on the board and go�  :-( oh yeah they’re Russians. So yeah being able to step back and look at the whole board and smile at how just awesomely cool it looks would be really kick ass. I hate blue Russians so much I’ve toyed with the idea of using the French units from A&A14.

Well, I guess nothing says you can’t. You can pretty much do what you want in your games. That is the fun of it. I’m personally mixing all my axis and allies games, so that I can use variation in pieces. I might use a hellcat and p51 mustang on the same carrier for the US. I also might use both the first and second edition Anzac pieces. I’m not going to limit myself.

I always mix my A&A games been doing it since AAE came out. But I tend to put carrier planes on carriers. and as the game goes on Panzer IIIs are replaced with Panthers only to be replaced by Tigers later

I didn’t think about the planes. Your right some are not carrier planes. I’m glad you told me that. I always forget that. I need to study which planes are carrier and non carrier planes. Good call. :-)

@mentok27:

Man. I’m so keen on these newly listed expansions for global…. Ideally I’d love it if stuff like winter war and battle for Africa came with small a3 ish maps so you could play just those fronts as aaa express.

I feel like as Spain,South America, Scandinavia, secret weapons, downfall and unthinkable bring us less historically accurate events we need action cards to bring that narrative flow…

A deck of say 100 cards and each side gets say 10 random ones split between the nations.

Cards could add something that just spawning troops and rushing them to the front doesn’t provide…

Subterfuge - move half the enemy forces In any one zone into an adjacent zone during your combat move.

Forced march - in your non combat all infantry can move an additional space for one turn

Pro neutral - when attacking a neutral nation using a force of equal or greater strength to its defenders they will declare as pro(axis or allies) and join your cause.

Code breakers - you may re adjust your forces In a defending zone with forces from adjacent zones…

So many more possibilities but you’d have a random bunch and they’d be one use only obviously… Would add a little to getting temporarily unexpected outcomes… Depending how and when they were used of course

I like your idea of the different fronts using specific maps. I’m not sure about the cards, but is an interesting concept. Battle Cry, the civil war is like that, but I guess I would have to see examples before I would add cards to axis and allies, but it sounds cool.

@Yavid:

Every single time I set up France which is done last, I pull the pieces out and go to put the first tank on the board and go  :-( oh yeah they’re Russians. So yeah being able to step back and look at the whole board and smile at how just awesomely cool it looks would be really kick ass. I hate blue Russians so much I’ve toyed with the idea of using the French units from A&A14.

Well, I guess nothing says you can’t. You can pretty much do what you want in your games. That is the fun of it. I’m personally mixing all my axis and allies games, so that I can use variation in pieces. I might use a hellcat and p51 mustang on the same carrier for the US. I also might use both the first and second edition Anzac pieces. I’m not going to limit myself.

@Yavid:

@John:

@knp7765:

Hey Guys,
There are four sets currently in the “Design Stage”:
UK Supplement Set – This one is closest to being finalized
World War 1 French/Neutral set
World War 2 France Early War set – If you think about it, that’s all France really needs. France as a nation was only in the early part of the war. After that they were Occupied France.
World War 2 Japan Basic set – This set will include every piece that is used in the Global 1940 game so you can actually replace your OOB pieces with HBG pieces (or simply have more options if you like).

After those, the rest has been just talk so far. However, I have seen sculpts for a USS Enterprise carrier, a Midway class carrier and an F-86 jet fighter that could be included in a possible US Expansion set.
Also, there has been definite talk of a second Axis Minors set that will have even more German equipment in it. Here are some of the ideas:
Panzer IV tank
Stuka dive bomber
A new Mechanized Infantry piece, possibly SdKfz 250 or SdKfz 7-1
Deutschland class Pocket Battleship
German infantryman in a long coat (winter dress?)

Those are all I can remember at the moment. Also, I’m sure at some point they will be making another Russian set to cover later war equipment. Maybe even a set with some Russian Navy vessels. Even with these new expansion sets for the Global game, I’m sure they will keep making nation sets as well. Just from a business standpoint, they sell too dang good for them not to make them.

Thanks for sharing your info. I would think nation sets would always sale. I didn’t think about it, but your right, Early War France is all that you would really need.

Late war would kind of makes sense seeing as they used alot of american lend lease equipment in the late war but that can be handled by a wisely made American set also made in French blue. But whatever it takes to get my sad blue Russians off the game board.

Ha ha, tis sad for the men in blue, but whatever they produce, I’m sure it will workout. :-D

@knp7765:

Hey Guys,
There are four sets currently in the “Design Stage”:
UK Supplement Set – This one is closest to being finalized
World War 1 French/Neutral set
World War 2 France Early War set – If you think about it, that’s all France really needs. France as a nation was only in the early part of the war. After that they were Occupied France.
World War 2 Japan Basic set – This set will include every piece that is used in the Global 1940 game so you can actually replace your OOB pieces with HBG pieces (or simply have more options if you like).

After those, the rest has been just talk so far. However, I have seen sculpts for a USS Enterprise carrier, a Midway class carrier and an F-86 jet fighter that could be included in a possible US Expansion set.
Also, there has been definite talk of a second Axis Minors set that will have even more German equipment in it. Here are some of the ideas:
Panzer IV tank
Stuka dive bomber
A new Mechanized Infantry piece, possibly SdKfz 250 or SdKfz 7-1
Deutschland class Pocket Battleship
German infantryman in a long coat (winter dress?)

Those are all I can remember at the moment. Also, I’m sure at some point they will be making another Russian set to cover later war equipment. Maybe even a set with some Russian Navy vessels. Even with these new expansion sets for the Global game, I’m sure they will keep making nation sets as well. Just from a business standpoint, they sell too dang good for them not to make them.

Thanks for sharing your info. I would think nation sets would always sale. I didn’t think about it, but your right, Early War France is all that you would really need.

@Yavid:

I would like if they would do a universal set before they start slowing down to focus on the expansions. By universal I mean Major and Minor ICs, plastic airbases, plastic naval bases stuff like that. It could and should be done in 1 color neutral grey.

Now that would be cool. I would buy something like that.

@Yavid:

http://www.historicalboardgaming.com/HBG-Battle-Pieces–WW2-Japan-Basic-Set_p_813.html

There’s really no info there but it’s there. I have no idea about a 2nd German set. I’m not sure what units could even be in the set. Interesting thing of note: the WW2 French set also says “Early War”

Well, thanks for trying, and yes, I saw that the French set was early war as well. I believe they will keep doing regular sets, just not as often, since they are coming out with expansion sets. That is just my thought. I guess we will see.

@Yavid:

@John:

@Yavid:

Yeah I know I’m very curious to know what’s after the French set. I know there’s a 3rd Japanese set they are working on and based on the names of the sets there’s another Russian set they are going to do but after that I have no idea.

There is another Russian and Japanese set, that they are going to do?

I didn’t know that.

When was that announced?

I missed that, somehow.

Russian set I’m assuming based on that the Russian set is call “early war” so that stands to reason there will be a “late war”
The 3rd Japanese set was announced when they announced they were doing the first Japanese set they said they were doing 3 sets of Japan in a row. It’s on there site somewhere I’ll see if I can find it for you.

I guess your right. If you have an early war set, you will have a middle and later set. I didn’t think about that. Is there going to be another German set, because there has only been one? If you can find the link, it would be great and if not, no sweat.

@Yavid:

Yeah I know I’m very curious to know what’s after the French set. I know there’s a 3rd Japanese set they are working on and based on the names of the sets there’s another Russian set they are going to do but after that I have no idea.

There is another Russian and Japanese set, that they are going to do?

I didn’t know that.

When was that announced?

I missed that, somehow.

Ok, February, great because that is the one group, I’m needing. The United Kingdom Set should be soon, along with the Japanese basic set. I don’t know if you know this, but Doug is doing an early WW2 French Set as well. Look under the design stage on his website.

@Yavid:

Something occurred to me last night and I’ve very curious to know. But I hope these new sets as awesome as they look like they are going to be doesn’t mean they stop doing the individual nation sets. And I would like for them to do sets in WW2 sets in WW1 nations colors and vice verse.Â

Man, I would hope not, because I still need the Russian sets because I missed out on those. I would hope Doug and the gang would still do them. I guess we can always let Doug know, we still want new models for each country in a variety of different colors. I don’t know if he will mix the world war 1 and 2 colors, but we can always ask him. I’ve talked to him several times on the phone, and he is really cool about answering your questions. He is always about customer satisfaction. I guess we shall see about the continuation of country sets.

I didn’t think you were ranting. We are both hoping these sets will be something we can use in our games. I’m just excited that that HBG is adding more to their games. I’m also just curious what others think of these sets and what ones they are interested in. So if your guilty of ranting, then I’m certainly guilty. I think we are just passionate about what we want in our games, at least I am, anyways.

Yavid, I got to thinking, some of these sets will be apart of the 1936 map, so the Spain set will workout well because the country was torn in two before WW2, and the new map coming out at the end of the year has 3 starting points. The map will have a 1936, 1939 and 1942 setup, so it is not out of the question that Spain will work on the 1936 setup because of their civil war and with political situations that can be added to the game, especially with the diplomacy set and rules, it could get interesting. If your just into world war 2 era, the 1942 setup is what you would start with.

This maybe why, HBG is making these different sets because of the different set ups, you can start with, and I bet that they will have a post WW2 setup later, where the US will go to war with Russia, after the defeat of Germany and Japan. If you noticed on HBG’s site, the sets start at 1936 to 1946 post WW2, for future expansions.

The zombie set was just probably thrown in for something different. That is just my guess, LOL. It is all good, I guess. :-D

John

@Yavid:

@John:

@Yavid:

These are new ones, Some of them are more sci-fi based. Like Patton driving into Russia, or Spain joining the war. There’s 25 on the site to be voted on.

Yes, I noticed the Patton one as a, “What if?” scenario, just like Spain. I will get most of these, and there is some that I will buy more of, than others. The zombie be one is still up in the air for me, LOL. :-D

I won’t be buying all of the what if scenarios and will not buy the zombie one well unless there’s something else in the game that makes me want it but zombies are a negative not a positive for an A&A set for me. The big thing for me personal is there anything in the set I can use in a WW2 game.

Oh, I agree with you totally. I’m wanting, mainly, world war 2 sets myself. It would have to be something really special to entice me to buy the zombie apocalypse, but each person has different tastes.

@Yavid:

These are new ones, Some of them are more sci-fi based. Like Patton driving into Russia, or Spain joining the war. There’s 25 on the site to be voted on.

Yes, I noticed the Patton one as a, “What if?” scenario, just like Spain. I will get most of these, and there is some that I will buy more of, than others. The zombie be one is still up in the air for me, LOL. :-D

Yes, Tall Paul told me about it. This is getting me really excited. There is something for everyone in these sets. :-D

@Tall:

John,

––Good luck on your now Officialy sanctioned ‘man-cave’. I’m looking forward to some real wars on our G-39 maps. I’m probably going to go ahead and make a new gaming table for my maps so whether we are in Paris, Longview, or Shreveport we can have our wars. I’m definately looking forward to this Awesome game!

Happy New Year,
“Tall Paul”

Thanks buddy, I’m looking forward to it too, LOL.

Happy New Year, to you too! :-D

John

@Craig:

You are definitely going to hurt your chances of anything good happening if you end up knocking over that “tea” onto the white carpet. :-o

Good catch my man. I was going to see if anyone noticed that, LOL. :-D

@CWO:

Kids sometimes use a crafty technique to get what they want.  It goes like this:

“Mom, can I have a baby brother?”
“Uh, no dear.”
“Okay, then can I have a dog instead?”

I just got back from Colorado and just saw your response. It made my day. Sorry, I’m just now responding. My grandmother is really sick in the hospital and they say it won’t be long before she goes. I left Texas the afternoon I posted this, and just now catching up on posts. When your married, you have to be crafty, LOL.

Thanks for this, I needed a good laugh after the week I had.

John