My new Strategic Bomber fleet….

I have had a 3D printer hobbyist CAD design a new BB playing piece and a new DD playing piece.
The BB is based on the WW1 UK Iron Duke modified for appearance. It is, certainly, better looking than the original BB design. Additionally, I (we) used a depiction of a WW1 US 4 stacker DD to make a modified DD playing piece for A&A WW1. The rationale that the Sub replaces the need for a DD just doesn’t ‘cut it’ (make sense). Most of the colour filaments used to 3D print these units are a good match to the original playing piece colours. I will post pictures of these as I have assistance doing so.

@Eric-Poppleton @GEN-MANSTEIN

Benefits of making all units AA.

No need separate AA gun, more space. Cheaper air and naval costs allow more different combination of purchases. It encourage German naval build up and two ocean going USA. Losing air unit isn’t a big deal anymore.

Though I have been still working on balancing units with each other after giving AA ability. I think I’m getting closer.

Further stacks do not increase AA possibilities. Only matter is amount of attacker planes. 1/6 shot down chance per attacker air unit.

I had to give ground forces +1 defense otherwise especially infantry would become so ineffective considering fighter has 2 defense and just 3ipc cost.

This is of course unplayable on board because of fractionel numbers and upkeep ( Yes there is also upkeep and method to buy 1 destroyer despite 3.5 ipc cost but its out of topic otherwise calculating massive stacks would be huge trouble). Its totally for TripleA I just wanted to learn with these unit set up, would air units be underpowered/overpowered or balanced?

The current unit set up like this (still progressing);

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Getting in (4) new collections this week:
Austrailia & New Zealand Roundels
SS Shields and Flags
Japanese Meatballs without white border
Axis Minors Flags with Aircraft markings

ANZAC And AXIS MINORS.ai.pdf

Added Russian Fighter and more Japanese Carriers on the website.

Also on Ebay.

www.combatminiatures.org

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Just to follow up: this picture from knp7765’s sculpt evolution post…

http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?topic=23386.0
Re: Evolution of Axis & Allies pieces – Take 2
« Reply #2 on: May 25, 2011, 05:34:49 pm »
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…has a shot of a Anniversary British BBs next to its 1942 counterpart that gives a good idea of the size difference.

Hi, how is the work going ?
I am looking forward for that app.

@dedo:

Oh, sorry, I didn’t know about that thread, eventually I lost my labour and waisted your time…

No problem.  There’s so much information scattered in so many threads on this board that it’s impossible to keep track of it all, so repeating a particular point of information can be very useful, especially to people who may have missed its first appearance elsewhere.  I just happened to remember the reference to the Beaufort because that information had been posted in response to a question I’d asked…and even then, I had to use the Search function to track down where I’d seen it because it was several months ago.

Thank you Paul. These all look very cool. Looks like I have a few options.

Jon