It’s kinda hard to answer your question because it depends on how much you are willing to spend, do you want to play historically, do you only want to collect one type of fleet? I would say that it would be hard to win many games if you go German and then play against someone who is bringing an American fleet. I say this because the Germans (and let’s add the Italians, French, Australian, and even to some extent the British) are so underpowered in the way of air power that I think you would lose every time. If you play historically and avoid any kind of cheesy fleet combinations…well, you might have a chance. In my opinion, and that’s all it is, you’d be hard pressed to beat an American fleet in a 150pt or higher game. At that point level you can bring a battleship, two carriers and enough planes to destroy whatever your opponent is bringing…only a Japanese fleet with multiple Yamatos might stand a chance against an equal point American fleet. Let’s say you collect only a German fleet…how would you stop my air power? I’d have all your ships sunk before you made it within striking distance. Maybe I’m full of crap, but, I’d say go American if you want the most balance and options. Maybe the second set of WaS will have more air support for the Germans and the other Axis powers (Japan not included) but as it stands now…they’d get crushed. I don’t think that would be much fun for you.
Axis & Allies Miniatures Set 4: D-Day
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The French get their Somua!!!
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About time! With the Char Bis being out, maybe the French will finallt be a fieldable army on their own w/o having to field the same stuff every single time. Yea, I’m stoked for set IV.
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It should be good. Heroes might be broken but then just don’t play with them.
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It should be good. Heroes might be broken but then just don’t play with them.
Except they will be the rare you get in the booster, which would suck.
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It looks like heroes are uncommon. At least the preview of the first one is.
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Thank WHATEVER they’re not all rare. I don’t plan on using heroes, so if my Rare turns out to be Rommel or something I’m going to be ticked. I’d probably melt the figure out of spite.
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Hey GG, look back a few posts. Those links are already there. :-)
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Preview 6 is up!
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The next preview is here:
http://www.axisandallies.org/node/98The obstacles are the preview.
The barbed wire is 0.5 points. Hmm, I like this idea of having units worth 0.5 or even 4.5.
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I think the fortifications look like poo’. I absolutely love the rules for them, but I hate the barbed wire model especially. I know they can’t do much better at that scale, but I’ll be making my own.
What do you suppose those two infantry models are? I have my theories, but they’re shaky.
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The “exhausted scount” and the “desparation grenadier”? :-)
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Are there rules for using just one hero? It makes sense to me. If you just have one hero, your opponent can decide whether it’s worth it to focus on killing him.
Obstacles being so cheap may actually make for the biggest change in playing the game.I am hoping they get a Marine hero, since the Marine infantrymen are actually a little weaker than I expected.
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Two frigging Shermans! Granted, neither is American, but for the love of WotC, can we stop with the Shermans? How about the next expansion set? I propose we name it “All the M4 variants you could ever think to deploy” and be done with it.
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I think it’s fine. As long as they have different stats and different models, I’m happy.
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Not too sure if this has been added in already…but anyways, its the complete D-Day set. :-)
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Holy smokes! Canadians and Buffalo soldiers! And an 88 finally!
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Two frigging Shermans! Granted, neither is American, but for the love of WotC, can we stop with the Shermans? How about the next expansion set? I propose we name it “All the M4 variants you could ever think to deploy” and be done with it.
Well that sure would be very interesting since there are so many Shermans…lol
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nice bump…
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So… is this board basically dead? I mean D-day was about 5 sets ago. Anyone really around here anymore, or has everyone gone to the Forumini and Underground?
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