Are Memoir 44 units comparable in size to standard AA units?

WARRIOR888

Gents,

As promised here my take on Coach's new German units.
Tiger E1 is Excellent, compares in size to DAVCO 1/300 Tiger E1s in metal.  This unit has great detail.
PZ II will round my Afrika Korps Divisions and the 2 mgs are a great detail.
Heavy Artillery is really an awesome unit, even better than the metal ones I own.
Paras are totally cool units.
Battleships have fantastic detail and the light carrier is spot on to the pictures I have of the proposed designs.
D0-17 is an interesting aircraft. I personally would not have wanted to fly one.
German Heavy Bomber is totally cool.  Need some B-29 Super Fortresses to counter them.
ME-110 Fighter  and the Junkers transport are well designed.
The ME-262 is in the right scale, they were not large jets.  Will need Some British Gloster Metors to compete with them.
Or just paint up a bunch of RED TAILS ON P-51s for the Tuskegee Airmen.
The Super Sub will make a great Milch cow for the smaller OOB subs.

Coach, all in all a well designed bunch of German units.
Waiting to see what you create for the Japanese and French next.  Keep up the Superb work and again Thank You for giving us some new and unique units to field in our favorite game.

WARRIOR888

Gents,

I Will be using all the extra pre-WWI Battleships for inclusion Imperious Leaders WWI game.
Just need a Grand Fleet pre-Dreadnought built to even out the WW1 Fleets.
I have not received mine yet, but I am expecting them this week.  I will offer my comment on them after I receive them.

WARRIOR888

 afrothunder12

IDEA:
Then you can paint all your T-34s brown or Red and use them as extra Russian Tanks.
Char b1 are awesome looking and they were bigger than any German Panzer IIIs or 1Vs at the Invasion of France.

WARRIOR888

Coach,

Awesome line up of IJN  and IJA units.  Get ready for another large order from me.
Question. Is you Yamato class going to be the same size as the OOB or bigger?
I would like to see a bigger unit seeing they where the largest WWII Battleships ever built.
Keep up the excellent work.  Waiting to receive my new German units this week so I can start painting them.

WARRIOR888

IL, Your ships and artillery are awesome!  I was trying to modify some Royal oaks into German High Seas and Royal Navy Grand fleet Dreadnoughts and now I won't have even finish that attempt.

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Jeremy,

You have my support, if you and Coach hadn't invested in this type of AA units we would be stuck with Xeno, and Avlon Hill units.  I look forward to FMG's return in 2013 back to being a solvent company.

WARRIOR888

IL,

Awesome!  RR guns and Destroyers are really cool.  Artillery looks like WWI Artillery.  Tried to zoom in and see what type of Dreadnoughts you have created but was not able to.

Keep up the excellent work, Can't wait to get several copies of your game for myself.

WARRIOR888

IL,

You have some excellent examples of WWI Aircraft.  You impressed my wife with your WWI aircraft and that is hard to do!  Can't wait to see what you create for Infantry, Calvary, Artillery and naval firepower.

Waiting to hear you have released it for purchase.  I will one of the first in line purchase .

WARRIOR888

WW2
ww1
civil war
napoleonic
modern

in that order

I agree(Grin)

I agreem WWII FIRST



"Tall Paul"

Gentlemen,

ive been out of commission for awhile dealing with some medical issues.

Here is my suggestions for a Commonwealth/UK set from Coach.

Battleship:  HMS King George V or HMS Nelson both would be iconic.
Battle Cruiser: HMS Renown she survied the war.
Carrier:  HMS Eagle early war, HMS Implacable for late war.
Cruiser: HMS Belfast you can actually tour her in the Thames river in London.
Light Cruiser: HMS Dido AA cruiser.
Destroyer: HMS Towne Class.
Fighter: Hawker Hurricane
Tac Bomber: Typhoon with rockets
Heavy Bomber: Sterling
Transport: Horsa Glider
Torpedo Bomber, Swordfish
Early Tank: Crusader II or III
Mid War: Churchill III or IV
Heavy Tank: Comet, Black Prince or Centurion
Artillery: 5.5 Inch Howitzer or 7 Inch Howitzer,  UK used a bunch of them.
Anti-Tank Gun: 6 lb or 7 lb guns
SPA: Archer.
Infantry Red Devil Para sculpt.
Royal Marine Commando sculpt.
Truck: Bedford 6 x 4
Mech: Bren carrier.
AA gun: Bofor 40mm

If a Chinese set is done here is my suggestions.

Cruiser: Light only they had 6 till the Japanese destroyed or captured them in 1937.
Gunboats:
Tanks: Renault FT-17s, Vickers 6 Ton,  T-26 Light Tanks, 88 received from the Russians.
Med Tanks: M4- Sherman at least 812 where sent to China by the USA.
AA 88mm Flak 18 they used 20 provided by Germany at the start of the war until the IJA captured them 1937.
Mech: Russian BA-10 and BA-20 Armoured Cars.
Truck: Carden Lyold Carriers.
Infantry in German helment.
Calvary
Artillery: Russian 76mm
Fighter: P-40 Warhawk to rep the Flying Tigers They wanted 650 received a total of 369 aircraft.
Bomber: Hudson was going to provided to them by the USA before Pear Harbor.

If Coach does his own Iconic Italian set here are some suggestions.

Battleship: Andrea Doria Class or Conte di Cavour Class
Heavy Cruiser: Zara class
Light Cruiser: Montecuccoli class
Infantry: Italian Black Shirts
Infantry: Italian Alpani Mountain troops
Infantry: Bersaglieri
Infantry: Folgore Italian Paratroopers
Artillery: 100mm Howitzer, 149mm Howitzer
Ant-Tank gun: 47mm or 75mm
SPA: Semovente M42 da 75/18 or Semovente M41M da 90/53
Mech: Autoblinda AB41
Truck: Breda 32 or Dovunque SPA 41
Light Tank: Carro Armato M11/39
Med Tank:  Carro Armato M15/42
Heavy Tank: Carro Armato Pesante 26/40 ?
AA:  88 mm or 102mm
SP ATG: Semovente M42T da 75/46

WARRIOR888

Gentlemen,

Here are the HO and 1/72nd scale Infantry units I have been using for the 20 years.

All these were purchased from the following manufacture's who are still producing them.

AIRFIX, UK, HASEGAWA, JAPAN, MATCHBOX, UK, REVELL, USA AND GERMANY, HELLER, FRANCE, ITALERI, ITALY, IMEX, ITALY, MINI ART, JAPAN.  No decent USA company was producing these type of units when I was in the market for these.

YOU CAN FIND THEM ALL AT MICHIGAN TOY SOLDIER COMPANY
A bunch of them are re-issues.

8th Army, British Army, Afrika Korps, Italian Army, Italian Bergsarali, Japanese Army, Luftwaffe personnel, RAF Personnel, UK Commandos, Waffen SS, SS Panzer Gren, Red Guards, Russian Army, US Army, USMC, US Airborne, British Paras, ANZAC, New Zealand, French Army, Italian Mountain troops, Gurkhas, Royal Marines, German Paratroops, 101st Airborne, 82nd Airborne, UK Red Devils.

Most sets when I purchased them contained between 40 to 60 men and some include additional weapons such as machine guns, mortars, radiomen, wounded and dead men panzerfaust and bazooka teams and flame throwers.

WARRIOR888

CWO Marc,

 The Shermans I received in my new game have non-standard turrents.  They are grossly de-formed.
It looks like a mold issue or they did it on purpose. The are molded with the heavy part of the turrent on top and the small part close to the hull.  It looks like in the process they got the tank turrent mold upside down.

Gentlemen as stated here is my take on the AA 1940 Pacific second Edition Units.

ANZAC:
Destroyer Tribal excellent choice.
Heavy Cruiser Kent class HMAS Australia was actually one of this class. Good Choice.
HMS Warspite for a Battleship bad choice.  4 Royal Sovereigns would have been more acceptable seeing they were actually used in the Indian Ocean at the same time the Japanese attacked Ceylon.  I am taking my Warspites and putting them into my Royal Navy and replacing them with Royal Sovereigns.
Canadian APC?  Only reason I can think it was choosen it because of its name of Kangaroo.
Sentinel tank, different but does anyone recall them actually using them in combat?
Fighter and bomber and do not know much about them, but they are different. P-40 War Hawk would have been my choice for a fighter.
Aircraft carrier is unique but was not actually launched till after the war was over.  I do like since it gives a different carrier to the ANZACs.
Transport is excellent choice.
40mm AA is a good choice.  This unit was used by just about all Common Wealth Forces worldwide.
ANZAC Infantry, they blew it. My Hawsagawa and AirAFix  1/72nd men will replace these guys.  Maybe I will convert them to a 1776 war game.  I will not use them for AA.
Atillery: 5.5 inch Howitzer a good choice, I know the UK used them after D-Day but before??

Japanese:
AH Wizards really missed a good chance to improve all these units.
Battleship Yamato, just how many do we really need?  They could easily replaced it with a Fuso or Mutsu class sculpt, but alas they stuck with a Yamato.  I have so many I am converting them to all kinds of IJN Never Where ships such as B-64 Battle Cruisers, A-150 and A-140 Super Yamato's and a catarmaran BB/dual CV combo.
Cruiser another missed Chance, they should have re-worked this exsisting one into a Mogami or Nachi Class Heavy Cruiser.
Artillery: Should have been upgraded to a IJA 105mm Howitzer.
Tank should have replaced with a medium Tank.
Transport this should have been converted to the new one from new mini AA game.
Bomber Betty should have bee replaced with a Nell.
Zero, sclupt could have added more detail to.
Dive Bomber, I would have added more detail.
Sub could have been changed to a different I- Class boat.
Infantry: Could have been re-sculpted into a charging unit.
AA Gun is cool and so is the IJA Halftrack. German SDKFZ 251 just never did fit the IJA. Should have been replaced along time ago.

USA
Battleship Iowa,  Too many Iowas, This should have been converted to an earlier war Battleship such as the Washington or South Dakota Class.
Carrier:  Wasp should have been replaced by a Essex Class or Yorktown class.
Cruiser, A Baltimore Heavy Cruiser Class or Cleveland Light Cruiser would have been great.
Destroyer, Fletcher class.
Transport, No change.
Submarine, No Change.
Fighter should have been a Hellcat or P-40.
TBF Avenger, No Change.
Bomber, B-17 no Change.
Tank, M4-Lee instead of that ugly new stlye Sherman.  If they wanted to use a Sherman should have used the one from the original AA Pacific 1940. The new Sherman is just Ugly.  Going to get rid of them and use the older AA Shermans and my Davco's instead.
AA 90mm Excellent Choice.
M-3 halftrack perfect.
Infantry no change.

UK
Battleship Royal Sovereign should have been replaced by a Prince of Wales or the Warspite.
Carrier: How many Illustrious does one need?  an actual Ark Royal would have been perfect.
Cruiser, No Change
Destroyer, excellent choice.
Transport, no Change.
Infantry, coverted to Gurkas would have bee perfect.
Tank, a Crusader or M-3 Grant would have been my choice.
Fighter, I would have converted to a Hawker Hurricane.
Bomber, convert to UK bomber from new mini AA game.
APC, Looks like they took a 105 Priest and dis-armed it. Kinda wierd but they did use them.
Artillery, 25 Lb Field gun excellent choice.
AA gun, perfect.
Tac Bomber, no Change.

One new unit they could have added would have been nation specific trucks used for supply and troop movements.
Plastic Factories, Airbases and Naval Bases I would have added back in.  Cardboard never did cut it for me.
For the price AH is charging retail this game, these should have been in the mix.

F-22 are supersonic air superiority jet fighters, V-22 Osprey is a roto-tilt aircraft that takes off and lands like a helicopter but in flight fly like a prop driven aircraft.