Hey NavySeal,
I have done the same thing. I am kind of a piece junkie so when new editions come out, I often buy several copies for all the pieces. Of course, then I end up with too many of certain things. Even with the unit sculpts. I will want a lot of infantry, tanks, artillery, planes, etc. but not so much with capital ships, even for US and Japan.
So, I count out what I want to keep for my own games and put the rest on eBay. Sometimes I might lump all the extras in a big lot or make up a bunch of little sets. There are guys out there that are even worse piece junkies than I am and my game pieces pretty much always sell.
As for the extra game boards, instruction books, cardboard accessories and dice, you can put them on eBay as well. Some guys out there have a lot of playing pieces but perhaps missed out on whatever game you are offering, or just don’t want to go out and buy a new one. I found the best way to ship these, especially with the game board, is to use a USPS Large Game Board Flat Rate Box. You can put all the game accessories in one of these along with some packing material to fill in the extra space and the USPS will ship it anywhere as long as it doesn’t weigh over 70 pounds. For shipping within the US, I think it costs $16.95. You should check usps.com to be sure. I don’t know about international shipping because I only ship within the US.
The MOST important part is to price these items to sell. Start low and take the shipping cost into account. If you start out with too high a price, you won’t get any bids and will be stuck with them. Even if your starting price isn’t too high, remember they will have to also pay shipping. So start low. You are probably not going to get what you paid. The object here is to at least make a little money back on your investment and provide some gaming materials to someone that can use them. Even if you just get the lowest bid, at least you get that amount for yourself and you get rid of the excess pieces.
Another option is to offer free shipping which can draw more looks at your items, but then you have to either start your bidding price to include the shipping costs or take a loss with the shipping charges.
Good luck.
Amphib Question - QUICK ANSWER PLEASE!!
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4 transports loaded attacking area with airfield. No other ships. He is bringing aircraft with him. Do they get to defend against scrambling aircraft or are they only be used for the land battle only?
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Depends. You can either allocate them to the sea or the land.
1. You decide what planes are going where (to the sea zone or territory).
2. They decide what to scramble.
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So the planes can “patrol” the sea zone in case of scramble?
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Yes, “patrol” is a good way of putting it.
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You can always bring as many naval units and aircraft to a potential SZ where an enemy may or may not scramble. In the case of a seaborne invasion, you can bring additional naval units that are not shore bombarding(i.e. AC’s, DD’s and even subs if the enemy has a DD in the SZ) along as well to be used in the defense of your other naval units, air units and transports.
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Yay! I was the player who attempted to bring the planes. It was… controversial… in our group so we decided to not make the move to move the game along. It seems in the spirit of the rules, if not in RAW, that you can protect transports with planes… just like you would with non-bombarding surface warships… I have a feeling this issue will still not be decided unless Krieg weighs in…
In my opponents defense it did look fishy. It was 4 german transports with no other ships conducting an amphibious assault on empty Archangel and Nenetsia from empty SZ127. There were 3 Russian Fighters in Novgorod that could scramble to auto kill the transports before they landed. So the German player brought up 8 planes to SZ127 to protect against the inevitable scramble and they would land in Axis Finland. It was an odd move and looked silly with no surface warships and just planes, something that our group isn’t used to seeing, but it seemed no different in terms of the rules than sending destroyers up to the SZ to protect them…
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Zallomallo is right.
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You/your group can wait for Krieg to make an official ruling if you like but I guarantee this is backed up by the rules. Like I said, in addition to planes, you can bring as many other naval units as you like to defend your transports. You could even bring S. Bmbr’s if you want. Not suggested but you could do it.
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S. bombers are better than being automatically sunk! :-D Thank you to everybody for the replies, didn’t meant to doubt you, I just have a skeptical crew, and they were very set against us doing this move at the time.
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Actually, if your attacking transports are confronted by scrambled fighters (if you had no other attacking units), then your transports wouldn’t be automatically sunk. They would have to retreat to SZ 126 with all the land forces STILL ON THEM. You can’t discharge any ground troops from transports in a retreat.
Then, on Russia’s turn, they could send those fighters from Leningrad out, or even just 1 of them, and you would lose all those German transports and all the ground troops on them. That really sucks. -
You/your group can wait for Krieg to make an official ruling if you like but I guarantee this is backed up by the rules.
This is covered in the Official Rules Clarifications.
Actually, if your attacking transports are confronted by scrambled fighters (if you had no other attacking units), then your transports wouldn’t be automatically sunk. They would have to retreat to SZ 126 with all the land forces STILL ON THEM.
Yes, but the scrambled planes would get one round of fire against the transports before they could retreat.