Neutral Armies

James,

Should propose that in the delta threads!  Great idea!  Would seriously punish a round 12 invasion of Spain (+8 more defending infantry?  EEK!)

i’m surprised we got neutral set with anything other than infantry. And very surprised it was released before USSR, UK, and Japan. I kind of get Italy, France and Anzac but before 3 of the 5 Major Powers? As far as USSR, UK and Japan goes I’m surprised we got two German sets and two American sets first and almost got a third american set.

@Variable:

Neutrals are now available by the piece!

awesome I’ve been waiting for this for awhile now thank you.

@coachofmany:

@Lunarwolf:

how many infantry sculpts are u willing to do

2-4 different sculpts, possibly and not set.

so do you mean that they would be individual pieces with  diffident colors?

@crenk:

I am thinking about using infantry from previous AA editions to represent neutral army strengths on the board. I am planning on spray painting based on strict neutral, favor allies etc. My question is this:  I have extras of every nation, so what model would be best to represent the different nations? In other words, which infantry would be the closest match to what the neutral nations army would have looked like?

MY THOUGHT SO FAR:

South America:
Venezuela-? American
Chile-? Germany
Argentina-? Germany
Brazil-? American

Africa:
Angola- UK
Mozambique- UK

Mid East:
Saudi Arabia-? UK
Iraq- Germany-? Yes
Persia-? UK
Afghanistan- UK

Europe:
Turkey- ? UK
Greece- ? UK
Bulgaria- Germany
Yugoslavia- ? UK
Switzerland- ? American
Spain- ? Germany
Portugal- ? American
Sweden- ? Germany
Finland- Germany

Asia:
Olgiy- USSR
Dzavham- USSR
Ulaanbaatar- China
Buyant Uhaa- China

Any insight or thoughts would be appreciated

Hi, my opinion in red in your post. Spain and Sweden were based from the political situation in A&A Global War 1939, where they can become pro-axis and Turkey pro-allies. Cheers

J.  8-)

Ya if you made the Chinese set with a Stuart and P-40 this set will sell very well.  These pieces should definitely be included!

@Lunarwolf:

will you also use the I-16 for Spanish fighters

Probably, but not for certain.

if neutrals are building infantry and such, then we go back to who gets to decide that?  if they are neutral they we can’t say the other side, because both sides are the other side.  if we give neutrals a standing army, and a military growth chart that sets how they grow each round or so, but deciding what Spain or Saudi Arabia could build is gonna be a big argument in game by the two sides and really isn’t going to be worth playing with, unless we made all the neutrals a standing 7th player and let them work together the whole game, but that’s so far from history…

–if we give neutrals a standing army, then to declare war I would think shouldn’t need to cost anything, as they have to fight enemy troops and there is a cost to that. 
–if we don’t give them a standing army, then yes, there should be a cost to declaring war, whether in dice, or that they have to move the number of units equal to the value of the territory in, or that the other side gets to roll equal number of dice to the value of the territory, then divide in half, round up to take the economic toll.  in some way should be a cost, beyond the classic 3IPC cost.
–if it is just diplomatic, then the cost of the dice work for that.