Anzac - Home Country

I’ve given up waiting for the ‘Base Set 2’ as suspect will be ‘vapourware’ - this thread highlights why - there is no point HBG printing off a unit in 10 different colours, if certain sculpts are rarely if ever going to be bought by a certain nationality (and hence bought from HBG), and that will apply for a lot of the advanced tech stuff.

Therefore bought the 3d printed versions of the Base Set 2 items I needed, so Maltas for heavy carriers etc.

My approach has been to paint up at least 1 of each advanced unit, for each major power, and then more where I think countries need them/are likely to use them in game.

So Russa can build 1 attack transport and heavy carrier before I’m stuffed, but America has 3 sculpts of each of these units (for example)

@HBG-GW-Enthusiast There actually is a reason to have different colors—at least for ANZAC troops. ANZAC has different surrender conditions from FEC and the UK (FEC surrenders when UK does). You could be in a situation where you have both ANZAC and UK/FEC units in the same territory, but ANZAC is forced to surrender. This means you should have a way to differentiate these troops, and the easiest way to do that is to have different colors.

@jbuckbuddy You should always use ANZAC under a different color than UK and the reason why I say this is because if ANZAC and UK attack, as long as an ANZAC unit is present, you can give that territory to ANZAC instead of UK if you wish to of course.

Plus you should keep the colors different so you can see force projection by ANZAC. If ANZAC surrenders before UK, you need to know what units are going off the board.

@Chris_Henry Exactly, it doesn’t work because the game wasn’t built around that concept. I would love to see some one try this.

Rule 1.18 : Antarctica is impassable terrain used only in some expansion sets.

It doesn’t hurt to have one of each because they can also receive lend lease from the Americans. It just gives you that option.

I use British units for ANZAC and paint them.

@trig Thank you! Not as good as an errata, but at least it’s clear in the FAQ.

Something that can change hands should remain as a generic colour for all.  There’s enough stuff to do without having to swap out different coloured factories as well!