@phd_angel
I moved to Libertyville (North burbs) about a month ago. Unfortunately, my wife and I are living at her parent’s home until we can save for a house. This means I am willing to travel your way or meet in the middle.

I have AA50(2ed), Europe '99 and Pacific '01 if your interested in any of those versions.

The only caveats I have are that I would only be available on weekends and I must get permission since we have a 10mo/old daughter and I can’t just leave my wife and in-laws with a baby with little notice.

If you are interested in getting a game together, let me know and we’ll try to schedule something. Also (I’m sure this is a dumb question since you’re looking for players in the area) do you have any other players that would be interested? I might have one or two friends that would be down.

@Loose-Moose I bought the re-release new. Everything is OOB and I can promise you that all the pieces were a uniform color at one point. However, you do bring up an interesting thought: perhaps there was an overstock of the older infantry pieces and they were included with the newer printing of game pieces. I have heard that the quality of the newer game pieces is inferior to their predecessors.

So I just had a weird experience…

I purchased AA50 several months ago and have only been privileged to play it once with my brother when he visited. I’m preparing to move to Chicago and decided to check out the game board and pieces and to my surprise all of the Soviet pieces have turned brown except for the infantry. None of the other nations have had any discoloring.

Has anyone else had this happen? I own AA Europe from way back in the day and none of the game pieces have had any color change since I bought it nearly 20yrs ago.