I think you guys would be interested in this -
The Great War, a YouTube WW1 documentary series.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUcyEsEjhPEDf69RRVhRh4A

They do a main episode every week, detailing events of that week 100 years ago.
So it’s still an ongoing series and will be til late 2018.
They also do side episodes on specific topics, at least once a week for that too.

The main episodes are in playlists for viewer convenience too, having each season for each year the war takes place in.
Here’s the playlist for 1914, which is where you ought to start off if you’re interested.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FgaL0xIazk&list=PLB2vhKMBjSxO1lsrC98VOyOzfW0Gn8Tga
Definitely a worthwhile watch if you are particularly interested in WW1 history, I personally find it a joy to look forward to the next episode every week. Keeping up with the war on a weekly basis.

@Narvik:

OMG dont derail this thread any more, if you are unsure what the topic is, read the headline. If you want to discuss Poland, start a new thread

(You mentioned Poland first.) cough

@Narvik:

No, I did not say he was worse than Adolf, I said ha had a habit to get others in trouble, big difference. My apologies for highjacking your thread

How did Churchill drag Poland into a war?
The whole war in Europe started with Hitler declaring war on Poland over Danzig.

I find it pretty hard to tell which piece is German and which piece is Russian on the eastern front.
They all look grey to me.
Doesn’t help that Austria is grey too.

Is that going to be the final color for Russia? That’d be pretty confusing.

I vaguely remember a post about magnets on the bottom of units (and the chips too I think.) The board was metal, so everything stayed on. Pretty cool.

I think you guys would be interested in this -
The Great War, a YouTube WW1 documentary series.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUcyEsEjhPEDf69RRVhRh4A

They do a main episode every week, detailing events of that week 100 years ago.
So it’s still an ongoing series and will be til late 2018.
They also do side episodes on specific topics, at least once a week for that too.

The main episodes are in playlists for viewer convenience too, having each season for each year the war takes place in.
Here’s the playlist for 1914, which is where you ought to start off if you’re interested.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FgaL0xIazk&list=PLB2vhKMBjSxO1lsrC98VOyOzfW0Gn8Tga
Definitely a worthwhile watch if you are particularly interested in WW1 history, I personally find it a joy to look forward to the next episode every week. Keeping up with the war on a weekly basis.

@Leatherneckinlv:

Lol…I have argued this point since 2009…that it should…I have heard a few reasons as to why not…Surprise attack being the key reason

You should tell your m8s you play with that the Transport is still a unit itself and that the Sub is only striking one target per round.
The only reason transports are removed from the board when they’re by themselves in defensive combat is because rolling for each hit would be pointless since they’d all die anyway.

To further put out that the Transport is still by all means a combat unit in the game and not just some thing to take land units across the sea: If you tried to amphibiously invade an area with just transports and no supporting ships and the enemy has an airbase with fighters who then scrambled… Your transports wouldn’t immediately sink. Since the transports are on the offense, the enemy defenders might miss and you will have a chance to retreat if they do. And if you were invading with 4 transports, you’ll at least have the comfort of at least having 1 of them guaranteed to survive. Unless you were throwing away the game and didnt retreat. lol.

@GeneralHandGrenade:

Note though that the German pieces are grey and not the OOB Axis & Allies colour.

I had to replace all my (at that time) German pieces with grey ones because of that.
Though I really dig grey Germans over black/really dark grey.

Was a tad disappointed that the first colors of the G1936 base set don’t include that color.

@bgugs:

Looking to do a huge order this weekend. Any promo codes or discounts for large orders?

None that I know of.
Except for redeeming points for a $X code, if you bought stuff from HBG before.

Seems impossible to do.
Have to deal with France turn 1.
Kill Italy turn 3.

But by then, Russia has a giant stack threatening to invade from the east, the Turks they activated from the Balkans,
Western Allies are in Spain, and Japan sends its entire giantly inflated airforce to back up Russia.

I noped right out of there.

April 6th, 1917 - The United States declares war on the German Empire.