You could be right about the mixing of old and new pieces. I have the original 50th anniversary edition, and have got to say that some of the pieces were miss formed and not of great quality. I have switched those out with other pieces. Since I own every edition except for 1940 Pacific, I can say that the older game pieces were of much better quality…but you need the newer games to get those newer sculpts, so it is a challenge to have it both ways. Anyway good luck, and hope you enjoy “anniversary “. It, and along with the original “Pacific 2000” are my favorite editions
Have you heard of the FMG A&A pieces?
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Guys,
I don’t know how many folks here scan all the boards, but there is a fellow that formed a company called Field Marshall Games, FMG for short. He is making accessories for A&A and is about to release new pieces for the A&A games. The first release will be a complete set of Italian pieces. The other nations will follow and I think this is going to be a great thing. If you have time, check out this thread.
http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?topic=13894.0
It is already over 35 pages, so it will take a long time to read. But the essence is he is about to take the next step and take pre-orders for the Italian pieces. I bought a set of special dice from FMG and I am happy with them. He is also selling a dice tower. He plans to add other stuff. I hope he gets plenty of support so he can fund the development of all his projects. Take a look.
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Hey dinosaur,
That news is PREHISTORIC. But thanks for the trip down bad memory lane.
I have a set of FMG dice, but they couldn’t roll thier way through a wet paper bag! I let my friends use them, but they quickly catch on because I won’t. :s
care for a game? or are such a fossil that you only play the new ones?
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Good idea, now lets do this at BGG
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Hey dinosaur,
That news is PREHISTORIC. But thanks for the trip down bad memory lane.
I have a set of FMG dice, but they couldn’t roll thier way through a wet paper bag! I let my friends use them, but they quickly catch on because I won’t. :s
care for a game? or are such a fossil that you only play the new ones?
“Prehistoric” for many perhaps, but not everyone reads the variants section.
And what are you going on about with the dice? I won’t play with anything but!
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If you’re such a believer, mail me yours, and I’ll mail mine back.
I’m not sure if mine got melted in a microwave, but, we charted 150 rolls for 3 countries and logged them. The worst result being with Germany you were 34% more likely to roll a 5, than a 1 or 2 combined.
Most other countries were as bad. It’s beyond raw probability and statistics at that point, and there is nothing worse then a game that keeps going on and on, because ppl are all constantly rolling so badly sub par.
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Atleast I don’t spam the forum in CAPS.