Extra Pieces Global 1940 2nd Ed

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@wittmann:

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I wanted to get a fighter and a few artillary for china in the 1940 2nd ed color. Tired of american and chinese forces getting mixed up on the board. Anyone know what version/independent sculpter has the exact color match?

One thing Black Elk originally put me on to was getting the usual tackle boxes/clear cases from walmart and putting all the pieces in there by TYPE.  So all the Axis tanks go together, and so forth.  If you bought a couple of versions, you could dump them all in one box (by team etc.) and then use those organizers to set up every version, not just your favorite.    The normal box is a fairly bulky way to transport the game (more of a concern at Gencon where you are not near the car), but this way, it can go in a soft sided bag with just the boards, or a roll-upable version of the same.

And AA50 is about to be reprinted, so if you hold off (or heap on!), that could be one way to do it, though you are going to have different molds, colors, plastic hardnesses etc, which is also cool.

Yeah, HGB is a great site for extra pieces. I bought some artillery and the original fighter for China and just painted them Chinese colors so they didn’t have to borrow US pieces.

Ok, here is the deal. 1940 does lack when it comes to the counter chits. IF you have a older edition of ANY edition of Axis and Allies this will never be a problem.

Then again, if Russia has a 60+ stack (chits) of INF and Germany is sitting on a 40+ Stack (chits) of Mech/ARM and no one is attacking each other.

WHAT IN THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?

Bottom line for me….the game has more than enough chits to play the game in less you just sit around and turtle, building massive stacks of troops doing nothing.

@vruntson:

Just a follow-up.

I decided to purchase 1942 2nd ed based on responses and primarily the piece number.

With Global 1940 2nd + 1942 2nd, I believe I have the requirements for Anniversary too which I am excited about getting around to one day.

Thanks for all your help.

Good call. Japanese artillery is the real killer in my experience. Only about 6-8 pieces, WTF? Buying 1941 wouldn’t have helped with that.

Everything else is pretty likely to be fine, although I agree about the Chinese artillery and fighter being confused with USA pieces if USA ever gets on Asia.

German tanks and artillery are probably next in line.

@PainState:

Ok, here is the deal. 1940 does lack when it comes to the counter chits. IF you have a older edition of ANY edition of Axis and Allies this will never be a problem.

Then again, if Russia has a 60+ stack (chits) of INF and Germany is sitting on a 40+ Stack (chits) of Mech/ARM and no one is attacking each other.

WHAT IN THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?

Bottom line for me….the game has more than enough chits to play the game in less you just sit around and turtle, building massive stacks of troops doing nothing.

Well on Triple-A stacks tend to be even larger. I don’t think that’s a problem of poor play. Moscow in particular can get over 80 inf.

@ShadowHAwk:

We hardly run out of pieces except maby italian art and even that we can solve.

Use chips, use the green chips as 10 and your sorted unless you really want to spread your forces all over the board in which case your opponent can just smash them with ease and you got them back to buy them again.

I would keep the greens at 3. We use 10c pieces for 10 units. I guess we’d go to 20c (which they don’t have in USA - 25c) if needed. In your case it probably won’t be needed. Huge numbers of reds, normally 5 units.

I like the chips from 1942 better, they’re a little smaller. So I bought blue’s from HBG (which I believe come with 1914) and use those as 2.  So my setup is:

Gray 1
Blue 2
Green 3
Red 5

Also picked up their air base and naval base markers which really pop on the board.

My group usually uses control markers for 10, especially in stacks that won’t be splitting up anytime soon (like in Moscow)