Is there somewhere you can buy more plastic pieces?

[packrat76]

i would like to get double the plastic pieces if  thats even possible without buying another whole board game.Does anyone know where you can just get more AA50 plastic pieces?

[LuckyDay]

niice IL,

  It's not about beating the system, it's about breaking it.

on a side not, Field Marshal Games is looking into replacement pieces, but you won't be getting them tomorrow.  If all goes well, they'll be good though.

http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?topic=12929.255

[Imperious Leader]

just wait for Field Marshall Games.

If you go with metals all the plastic pieces your using will be invalidated, plus metals are 10X the cost easily.

[Gargantua]

Or...

You could be a real fan, and have multiple copies of Axis and Allies, all the way back to the 80's.

I think I have something like 18 boxes?  Nothing is better then those RED japanese pieces, from the early releases of Pacific.
And nothing more horrible, then the HALF size panther tanks that came with Dday and early revised :S

[Constantinople]

IL

Are you really recommending to people to cheat and lie and steal?   

I hope this a joke or hopefully it is inartfully written sarcasm!   

You enjoy their products to an incredible degree, you obviously have enjoyed hundreds if not thousands of hours of pleasure from playing the games, you are writing about the games constantly and you are inventing imaginative scenarios, rules and other fabulous variants derived from the Axis & Allies "system," yet you are promoting this kind of behavior?

Say it's not so, IL!

I for one hope not. This behavior is not to be condoned.

Constantinople

[Cmdr Jennifer]

Why not use 15mm or 20mm metal figures?, there are plenty to chose from, especialy if your able to paint them up yourself, 10mm or 6mm AFV and Aircraft also blend in well.

If you go with metals all the plastic pieces your using will be invalidated, plus metals are 10X the cost easily.

And if cost is no object, like it is for me while I attempt to finish up my ultimate Axis and Allies Table (with replaceable insert so you can swamp out Anniversary for Revised) is there a place to get metal pieces that are unique for each nation?  I'd really like Zeros for Japan, Mustangs for America, Stukas for Germany, etc, if possible.  Heck, I'd settle for Lightnings for America as long as they were different for each nation.

PS, scrapping the illuminated board.  Can't work it out for both Revised and Anniversary, it was hard enough to do for just Revised.

IL, on your beautiful, and very large, map, why did you paint Manchuria and Kaingsu gold like Japan instead of green like China?

[Cmdr Jennifer]

Well, it's just confusing to people since they are territories that get liberated for China, not original orange territories for Japan.

[Imperious Leader]

Well, it's just confusing to people since they are territories that get liberated for China, not original orange territories for Japan.

Thats why they both have the Chinese roundel next to the Japanese roundel, to indicate that if China can take them they get the IPC.

[Cmdr Jennifer]

Okay, but if Russia takes them, China still gets control. 

[Imperious Leader]

well thats why there are no Soviet tokens in China. The control icon makes it easier to see who can possibly legally get control and who starts with it.

[Subotai]

On this principal matter I side with IL.

Already back in the early 90's when I was playing Classic we needed more chips and more pieces.

Chips are easy, but the pieces are not. It would not cost WOTC much, in production costs, to sell pieces separately, and with so many flavors of A&A I bet many who bought either AA50, AAR, AAP, BoB, AAE etc. would like to buy separate pieces. If then WOTC makes profit on selling separate pieces they should do it. Simple as that.

[TG Moses VI]

But the honesty and fairness must start somewhere.  Honesty and fairness breeds honesty and fairness.  You can't expect to cheat others so that they will treat you fairly.  As a former long-time employee of a very large retailer, I have to say that from a company's point of view 1 well-written letter from a customer will make MUCH MORE of an impact on corporate policy than 100 cheats.  I've read a lot of complaining on this website, but I would be surprised if more than 1-2% of the people who are complaining so much have ever written a well thought-out letter to Hasbro, WOTC, OR Avalon Hill explaining their concerns(not just gripes).

Finally a voice of reason.  Good job Bardoly. 


PS: Don't post anymore.  You have the number of the beast.

[Bardoly]

That's why I said, "Write a letter."  In this electronic age, for some reason, a letter usually makes much more of an impact than phone calls, e-mails, and/or website posts.  It shows that the issue is important enought to you to go through the time and hassle of writing and mailing a physical letter and also indicates that you put some thought into it as well.

[DutchmanD]

I've got an idea.

Bardoly, you write a letter, the most professional, beautifully composed letter you have ever written, using all your years of retail experience to muster up the perfect letter, and then return and report how WOTC responds to your prose. 

If the months go by, and they don't respond, or they respond with some type of company form letter that says how grateful they are for your comments, but nothing changes, you'll be good enough to tell us about it.

If they do change their ways and by some miracle start selling the pieces, all hats are off to you and many people will return to post on this board to thank you for you great work and insight.



My money is on nothing changing, but I'd be more than happy to be proved wrong.

[TG Moses VI]

Why does the burden of truth have to lie with Bardoly?  He's not the one clamoring for new pieces.  It just seems like you're passing the buck off to him because you're too lazy to write one yourself.  At least make it a joint effort.   

I agree with Bardoly.  In this electronic age a formal letter has more weight than an e-mail or a phone call to the customer service department.  A "real" letter has the best chance of reaching people who are in a position to do something. 


I would write one myself, but my quarrel is not with the number of pieces but with the quality of pieces themselves.  And for that I rather have FMG.