There’s no more Higgins boats around. They left 10 years ago !

@hkytown1 The A20 and BH planes are also listed in Axis & Allies Miniatures Search database: http://www.aamcardbase.com/

Really handy if you want print out cards that match the land unit cards. 🙂

Thanks for all the nice and positive words

Makes doing projects like this even more worthwhile and fun.

I was always suprised that each nation wasn’t given a medic unit, whether it be a vehicle or a infantry unit.

Also, here are some templates for if you want to make cards for the units.

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@dezrtfish:

Liger       200
Germany    1947
Tank
Speed 6          Soldiers  10/15/20
Defense 9/9   Vehicles 25/22/20

Special Abilities:
Advanced Camouflage – Cover rolls succeed at 6 or less.
Extended Range – Units long-range attack is 30 hexes.
Turbine Engine – Unit may make a second move after Combat is conducted.
105mm Quad Main Gun – Unit may make 4 attacks in each combat round.
Molten Metal Hyper Cannon – Unit may attack any number of units in a strait line.
Fear of God – All enemy units within 10 hexes of this Unit immediately surrender.

The Liger Tank was a project nearing completion at wars end.  It was named for the mythical animal breed for it’s magical abilities. The Liger Tank was Hitler’s last secret weapon and destined to change the outcome of the war.  The project was so secret however that the armored division ear-marked to take the tanks into battle was not allowed to know the location of the factory and therefore the tanks never made it into combat.

Looks like an interesting unit. 🙂 Do you have a link I can use to learn more about this tank? I tried a Google search, and the first result was your post! 😛

I’ve thought about this myself. If you’re fighting some minor back-and-forth land battle, or sending some aircraft to sink a stray enemy ship, you don’t want to break out the miniatures for stuff like that. But if there’s an epic land or sea battle, then that’s exactly the time to break out the miniatures!

Maybe there could be a house rule about this. If each side in a battle has at least 100 TUV present, then miniatures are used. Otherwise, the battle is resolved without them. (TUV = total unit value. If I have 12 IPCs’ worth of infantry and 20 IPCs worth of tanks in a battle, my TUV present is 12 + 20 = 32.)

When miniatures are being used, I think that it makes sense to give three miniatures points for every one point of TUV. Also, that TUV shouldn’t be regarded as a lump sum, but should be divided into categories: escort ships, capital ships, carriers, subs, fighters, etc. I wouldn’t object if a few leftover points were used on out-of-category units. For example, let’s say I have 50 points to spend on capital ships; but the capital ship I intend to buy costs 48 points. That gives me two leftover points which can be transferred to something out of category. When building my force, I should be allowed to spend no more than 15 points out of category.

These are thoughts which occur to me off the top of my head. I’d be interested to hear more from those who have thought more deeply about this; or who have field tested it.

Miniatures.
That sounds like a fun game ! 😄

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Talently…

But the transport can still move if it hasn’t used all of it’s movement.

It may only if the the unit that is doing the transporting has the fighting platform special ability.

its so super that you cant see the unit at all. almost the same as stelth

‘Initiative’ bonuses go toward the dice roll at the beginning of each turn that determines who goes first.

By definition, ‘each player adds the best initiative bonus of any Commander in his or her army’.  I’m guessing that irrespective of type of unit (foot soldier, cavalry or armor unit), the highest initiative bonus (assuming  you have more than one commander) is added to the dice rolls at the beginning of each turn.

Hope this helps

Well, I just found out about the revised cards sets on avalonhill.com. Combined with the expanded rules I just received, there’s no need for house rules anymore.

Seems to me that they listened a lot to the players, much better than what the game was originally.

I believe they took some inspiration out of HHR too, great !

Perfect.

That is exactly what I was missing.

I find it odd that there is absolutely no hint of this on the HHR page …

@Labia:

Wow   It sounds lovely and I really have no idea on the sand.   The glue may work.  Are you thinking of mixing some sand in with glue and painting it on?   Im wondering if you would have to seal it with something.

I went to a hobby shop and found some that were intended for train models.

LT

Very cool, Lone Jack is just up the road from me. Maybe 30 minutes or so?

Dont forget to check out the Battle of Lexington, MO if you havent done so already.

ya thats why i made it a 5 or a 6, because u cna’t always find or use the weapon, so do you think it would help if we needed a 6 to pick the weapon up

i think that a unit with more than one premium weapon should have an extra set of stat’s on the card, the same as some of the multi-turret tank’s, an ability similar to the “shrapnel” ability could be devised for the panzerfaust against infantry, i think rolling 3 dice would vastly increase the chance of disruption, while not going to overkill

thanks for the info, yeah i like the idea of paratroopers being able to deploy on any turn, it add’s some more strategy for both players,i think.
dont know if i’d like the idea of them being attacked by anti air fire, that might limit them too much,altough it could be interesting too.
thanks again for the reply.

Im not sure if this would be allowed but why not but Artillery or some other anti-infantry weapon on the firing platform and then use it to wipe out the enemy infantry… Just a thought

I agree, the your sniper was blue falconed by the buffalo soldier.

It’s getting dark now, (I work on it im ny shop) I’ll take one tomarrow.

Was thinking of doing a lot more home work on operation market garden and making it more realistic. Granted I can’t make it all that real b/c there were three allied ABN Divisions plus XXX Corp how many points would that be? But I’m open to any input I’ll make a new topic in the WWII history section for any sugestions.

-LT04

@wolfmasterkouga:

Another Question: Can Vehicles make defensive fire attacks?  :?

Vehicles can make Defencive-Fire (DF) attacks, but only against other vehicles. Some units, such as the much maligned Italian M13/40 have an ability that allows them to DF vs infantry but this is far from the norm.