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Tall Paul

My A&A Friends,

––My Dad, a 90-year old World War 2 veteran has died. His image is at left just prior to the Battle of the Bulge. I had hoped to have my Railroad & Military Museum up & going so he could share his experiences with others, but it wasn’t to be. I’ll try and post some WW2 pics of him at a later time.

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Tall Paul

Guys,
––I received an e-mail yesterday stating that HBG was now starting to ship the complete AMERIKA games to the Kickstarter backers which will necessarily take a little while to complete. But things are “HAPPENING!”

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Tall Paul

My Friend and V.I.P. “V”,

––Hey man it’s good to hear that you’re still among the living! (grin) How have you been and do you have any new pics?

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Tall Paul

@georgemak1:

By calling someone immature cause he wants to find out what happened to his hard working money while getting conflicting info is immature of his own. If you notice I posted right under my post when I saw the newsletter. That was good enough for me. I saw ppl asking him on fb and here without getting a reply. I never said I won’t support him, Doug can probably pull my order info out, I spent a lot of money there, and I still will, I just feel Doug didn’t communicate properly regarding this set. I’m not here to argue but I hope I got my point across

––Sir,…I didn’t call anyone “immature”,…I only wanted EVERYONE to understand the real world situaion(s) and the reasons behind them NOT being of HBG’s doing or in it’s control. I wasn’t directing my comments specifically towards you, but ALL of the A&A gamers. I hope we are “good”.

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Tall Paul

@coachofmany:

We are working on items that we can, we have NO control of the Chinese factory so instead of doing nothing, we choose to develop other items in the meantime. As you have noticed, we have not asked for pre-order on other items until “Amerika” and U.S. sets start shipping.

––Doug,…I continue my support of you and HBG in your efforts to bring more FUN to us A&A gamers. I’m even more understanding because I realize that ALL of the delays have been by the Chinese factories and out of your control. I can only hope that the A&A gamers would develope a more mature attitude towards these real life international business transactions. I can see that you are doing everything in your power to keep production going and I also think it’s very smart of you to not accept pre-orders of items until you know they are definately “in the pipieline” in order to minimize having anyone claiming “sour grapes”. I stand behind y’all and I’m ready to receive my Amerika game & American sets whenever they are ready.

Tall Paul

Tall Paul

Mentok27,

––Nice work! I like the very sharp edges on your paint divisions.

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Tall Paul

Trenacker & others,

@Trenacker:

combat engineers are obvious next sculpts.
––After closely studying HBG’s evolution of their Global Warfare-1939 and then their up-coming 1936 / 1939 version I think that there’s a very good chance of having Engineers / Naval “Sea Bees” to go along with their emphasis on several levels of
air field / air base / seaplane bases.

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Tall Paul

@Tall:

jluna,

@jluna1273:

Oh, I could look at these all day.
––Glad you liked them
I really need to get back to painting my stuff.
––I hope so!..as I really enjoy seeing YOUR NICE PAINTJOBS!

––Any new “beauties” to share?

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Tall Paul

@Tigerman77:

Russia liberates Comm China. No other ally. If another ally, including Nat China, takes back a Comm Chinese zone it isn’t liberated it is taken. hope this helps you guys out a little.
––I COMPLETELY understand the above.

––My ORIGINAL question was if after having had ALL of it’s units & territories killed or captured,…
Do Communist Chinese forces “magically or otherwise” re-appear in a territory after it’s being abandoned by the Nationalist Chinese?
–It doesn’t sound “logical” to me, but the rules as they are written are open to wide “interpretation” and I just wanted to nail down this answer.
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Tall Paul

@ghr2:

How so?
––The Capital of each country is clearly visable,…whereas simple territories are dull colored and not as vibrant.

@Tall:

@ghr2:

I would think the the commies do not have a capital, just like nationalist. They only way they can be liberated is if soviets take some chinese territories.
––But the COMMUNIST CHINESE do have a capital,….it is called Pingliang and it’s marked on the map as such.

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Tall Paul

@ghr2:

I would think the the commies do not have a capital, just like nationalist. They only way they can be liberated is if soviets take some chinese territories.
––But the COMMUNIST CHINESE do have a capital,….it is called Pingliang and it’s marked on the map as such.

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Tall Paul

@koba:

––Koba, Thanks for your response…but I need a little further info concerning the last named situation below.

The only way I can see Communist China coming back is if the Soviet or, some other ally, liberates their Capital (Pingliang) and only if it is not already under nationalist Chinese control.
––As the rules are written,…the above described “return” would be normal, as in all other Capitals being liberated.

----I guess what my main question was,…with the Capital of Communist China having being conquered and controlled by an enemy,….
would a Nationalist Chinese territory when completely vacated by them automatically turn into a Communist Chinese territory EVEN IF THEY HAVE HAD THEIR CAPITAL CONQUERED and there being not a single Communist Chinese unit or territory on the map at the time?

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Tall Paul

Question;

––In playing a game of Global Warfare-1939, 7.2 Rules

I am playing Japan. By the third turn Japan has completely killed EVERY Communist Chinese unit and conquered ALL of their territories.
Does this mean that since the Communist Chinese have been COMPLETELY eliminated from the board that they are eliminated from any future play?,….or

Let’s say two turns later Nationalist China leaves one of their territories vacant (unmanned). Do Communist Chinese forces automatically (magically) reappear? If so, as Japan it wouldn’t benefit me to try and eliminate them (and their one Infantry per turn re-inforcement) from the game.

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Tall Paul

@LHoffman:

@cyanight:

The roundels still need to be used. I can think of the standard attack that Italy does with their tanks on Poland and other Russian territories to allow the Luftwaffe to land and defend it. The territory without a roundel would look like it was controlled by Germany since It would have more pieces and specifically the Inf which has the roundel painted on the base rather than the Italian tank which took it first.

This is obviously true. I did not bring up this scenario because Black Elk already did. Two (or more) Powers jointly occupying a territory occurs in maybe 10% of territories on the board… meaning it is the exception rather than the norm.
––As usual I find myself agreeing with Lucas. I believe I used the terms “usually” and “almost automatic” in my descriptions above.

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Tall Paul

@LHoffman:

Tall Paul mentioned Allworkandnoclay, who has painted many of his units. I remember that in Allwork’s original painting thread, he actually left a very small portion of each unit unpainted to show the plastic color underneath. Supposedly this was to allow for recognition of what country’s units they were, though I thought the unpainted part to be way too small for truly effective recognition. But you could do something similar with your units if you are concerned about being able to tell the difference. It might look weird, but it’s an option.

––This would be a good time to “update” everyone on my preferences for painted Infantry bases. When I first noticed Chad and was completely awed by his painting talents, he was painting the national insignias on the bases of all Infantry units and also painted the vertical parts of their bases the color of the original unpainted plastic as an aid to further identification. I bought several of his units and commisioned him to do a few hundred more. I never liked the “clash” of colors that were on the Infantry bases (see below for pics) and when HBG produced some Paratrooper units I decided it was time for a change.
––Although we still had several hundred units in the “que” to be painted,…I decided I wanted to go back and repaint the vertical parts of ALL of the Infantry units BLACK which would compliment the national insignia colors and somewhat “frame” them. That is, all except the Paratrooper units which would have the vertical parts of their bases painted WHITE, so as to immediately make them stand out as not only different but Paratroopers.
––I had already done something simular to this with ALL of the Air Transport aircraft by painting White engine cowlings and wingtips on them to make them immediately identifyiable to all players in the game.

–Notice in these “old” pics the vertical parts of the bases below are painted to represent the colors of the OOB unpainted plastic,…Light Gray for Anzac and Lime Green for National China.
–These vertical parts will be repainted into the new standard of BLACK on all Infantry units other than Paratroopers,….which will have WHITE vertical surfaces to obviously mark them as units with special capabilities. I find that the White color also subconsiously reminds everyone of the white parachutes they utilize.

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Tall Paul

@Black_Elk:

I like those stars and stripes! That’s a mean stack of armor right there!
––I’m glad you liked them. You’ll notice that the US flags are the correct ones having only 48 stars instead of 50. Again, these are I-94 Enterprises decals. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND them. As far as the “stack of armor” you’ll notice 6 Anzac Stuart light tanks in their “outback” camoflage in the corner of the pic. They have the dark blue circle w/white dot center national insignias.
It’s a pretty cool idea. By having the decal in place on the units, the only time you’d really need a roundel is when two ally nations are occupying the same conquered territory. Like say if Japan and Germany were both in Egypt, or USA and UK both in France. But otherwise that saves on room, since standard cardboard roundels are pretty large. A lot of prime real estate gets taken up by them, enough room for what, like 4 infantry? I think it would help with crowding for sure.

I often wonder why they don’t cut the diameter on the roundels in half so they could print twice as many. They’d still be easy enough to pop, since you could just use the back end of a pencil or something. Japan often run out of roundels, sometimes G and UK too, so any system that cuts back on them would free those up for other uses.
––IMHO, I try to make everything on the map visable and immediately identifyable from 5 feet away. This really helps in speeding up the game and everyones’ ability to organise their thoughts/plans quickly
Again though, nice job on the sculpts. The detailing is killer!
––Thanks again. There are MANY TALENTED people here on A&A.Org-detailers, painters, mapmakers, etc. and the best thing is that they are friendly and SHARE their talents with the rest of us! I only try to do my small part, but I’m very happy if I might have inspired you to try painting your units. For some more “inspiration” you might check out the rest of my painted units using the link below"

http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?topic=29550.0

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Tall Paul

@Black_Elk:

Damn Paul those look clean! Nice work man!
––Thanks for the compliment. But the point I was trying to make was that having the national insignias on the bottom of your Infantry units,…either large painted versions or smaller decals,…really helps move the game along and I’ve found that I usually don’t have to bother with placing territory control markers as they are already there (on the Infantry units).

----Also, IMHO I’ve found that placing a small national flag on the top-rear deck of armored units works well. Refer to the pics below.
We would all do well to understand that we must strike a “balance” between our paint jobs being “historically accurate” and making the playing of our game easier, faster, & more fun. Because after all,…it is a GAME.
(P.S.-These U.S. Army and U.S. Marine Corps Stuart and Sherman tanks were painted by Lucas Hoffman, a.k.a. “LHoffman” here on A&A.Org)

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Tall Paul

Black_Elk & Others,

––Let me share my opinions with you that I’ve developed through much experience.
–First, I think it’s VERY IMPORTANT that each and every unit be marked with it’s national insignia. Doing so makes possible the immediate recognition of national boundaries and speeds the game along. I’ve found that with the entire base of my Infantry units painted in this way,….identifying territory control becomes almost “automatic” and it makes the use of territorial control markers mostly unnecesary.
–Although I prefer to have the entire bases of my Infantry painted with their national insignia,…you could use decals or stickers, although they are much smaller in size, to accomplish some of the same effect. I recommend
I-94 Enterprises decals. I’ve bought literally hundreds of them over the last few years and I’m COMPLETELY SATISFIED with them. Historical Board Gaming.com even stocks them now.

––IMHO placing squares on the bottom of all of your units will take up too much room. I play almost all of my A&A games on maps that have been enlarged 150%,…and have more room everywhere,…but still think it would be a mistake to “enlarge” each of your units.

Below are some pics that show my preferences in adding the national insignias to units. Notice that the Infantry bases are perfectly sized to be used as Territory Control Markers. I hope this might help.
(P.S.-These Russians, as well as ALL of my Infantry were painted by Chad Coffman, a.k.a. “Allworkandnoclay”)

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@Tall:

YG,

@Young:

Do you have more pics Tall Paul?
––Was there something in particular you wanted to see? Otherwise, here’s a link for ALL:
http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?topic=29550.0

Tall Paul

––Ooops, I had a typo in the link.

Tall Paul

YG,

@Young:

Do you have more pics Tall Paul?
––Was there something in particular you wanted to see? Otherwise, here’s a link for ALL:
http://www.axisandallies.org/forume/index.php?topic=29550.0

Tall Paul