@SS:
Thanks Coach for the AWESOME stuff I just bought !!!
Glad you liked them!
@SS:
Thanks Coach for the AWESOME stuff I just bought !!!
Glad you liked them!
@coachofmany:
Any chance of a Macedonian ancient army?
Sorry Flashman,
Not in the works.So is it strictly 20th century wars?
The upcoming A&A American Civil War and Conquest of the Empire reboot of no interest, then?
Please elaborate.
Any idea when the Kursk boxed set will be released? Will it be on Kickstarter?
We do not know yet.
Please come bid on Axis & Allies Rules signed by Larry Harris (creator of AAA). They are 100% charitable to “The Wounded Warrior Project” until Friday evening (Black Friday).
Go to Historical Board Gaming website or Facebook to get the link to Ebay. You can also go to ebay and search for “coachofmany” for seller.
Thank you and have a wonderful Thanksgiving Holiday.
question for coach, when aprx the us set will be ready for shipping?
Wow, I better not say, probably Feb.
@coachofmany:
Very nice paint job!!
Thanks Coach, Spitfire38 is getting better all the time. I can’t wait till he tackles the next set. We have some very talented painters on this forum. :-)
I wish I had the time to paint
Here is a peek on what we are doing.
Please!!!
The Units have not been finalized, we are working every day on this. We look at unit, how it looks on the board, is it unique enough from the previous and following unit. We want them to be easily recognized and historical as much as we can and keep it playable.
I repeat, they are not finalized.
Just bumping this because I think it would be great to see this project come to fruition.
We are still working on it, will have a big play-test this weekend in Tulsa.
We will have more information in the newsletter and I will post some here.
One of the projects we are really excited about at Historical Board Gaming
is our new edition of GLOBAL WAR. Some of the features that should be
exciting to games include a number of new units and sculpts including Mountain
Infantry, Partisans, Light Carriers, Air Transports, Torpedo Boats (and more).
The beautifully recolored map features a host of new territories and terrain
features - a completely historically accurate landscape. The optional 1936 start
date, new victory conditions, convoy and lend-lease systems and many
other changes will make this a must have! The 1936 game features many early war conflicts including the Chinese Civil War, Spanish Civil War, Italian invasion of Abyssinia and others. Small conflicts and limited income in the early war phase allow players to undertake expanded strategy options as they prepare for the coming war. Rules will be released in a modular 3 ring binder system allowing you to add pages as supplement sets come out.
We have MANY planned expansions, the first of
which will be BATTLE FOR THE ATLANTIC, followed by ALLIED SUPER
WEAPONS. From there, we’ll not only put out World War II sets
but work backwards to an Interwar set that connects to a World War I
game (and forward and backward in time from there). Our goal is to create an integrated game system where players could play from 1860 to Modern Day with units evolving over the course of time.
If this is a more modern set not meant to be mixed with WW2 era aircraft, then I think you have fixed your problem.
To repeat myself, you do not NEED a tactical bomber unit. All modern jet aircraft can perform both rolls so they should have the capabilities of both. There is no need for a size differential. There is certainly no need for a third size.
Perhaps you should make them all fighter sized. They would be smaller, take up less space in the mold and you could include more other units in the set. Also, they might fit better on the carriers that will come with these planes. You could even include 3 per carrier.
I understood you about the dual role and it does not make a difference between a fighter and a Tac in sizing, i can only get some many of those per mold, will not fit more fighters just because they are smaller. Thanks for your input.
@CWO:
The basic problem you’re describing here (to which, unfortunately, I don’t have any great solutions to suggest) is sometimes called weight/class inflation. It affects both ships and aircraft, and to some degree it also affects tanks (though in the case of tanks there’s a practical limit on size growth, because once you get over 65-or-so tons, it becomes very difficult for tanks to cross bridges or to travel by railroad).
Weight/class inflation refers to the tendency of warships and warplanes to grow in size and capabilities over the course of time, while still retaining their nominal designation. The F-15, for example, is an air-superiority fighter, but it’s roughly the size of a WWII medium bomber. Similarly, there are modern “destroyers” that are the size of WWII cruisers. And so forth. So a sculpt set ranging from the 1950s to the present is going to be problematic if the size of the sculpts is intended to reflect the nominal designation of each unit (which is the convention used by the A&A OOB sculpts that represent aircraft and surface-combat ships). Unfortunately, it would also be problematic (though in a different way) to use the alternate approach of having the sculpts reflect the physical size of each real-world unit: you could end up with a few extremely large units that would look out of place, and unit type differentiation would have to be based on something other than size.
Perhaps the best approach would be to avoid mixing in a single game units from very different decades. Each decade would have small/medium/large units, and for each decade small medium and large would always more or less correspond to sculpts having uniform sizes of x and y and z…but depending on the decade, a small unit of size x (let’s say, a fighter) would translate into units whose 1950s combat values would be very different from units with 2015 combat values. (For inspiration, have a look at the scene in the movie The Final Countdown in which a pair of F-14 Tomcats get into a dogfight with a pair of WWII Zeros. The Tomcats win – to put it mildly.)
I think you are missing the point, I do not plan on mixing aircraft from WW2 and Modern.
Fighters (Carrier)
1960-F-4 Phantom
1977-F-14 Tomcat
1999 F/A-18 Super Hornet
2015 F/A-35 Lightning II
Tac Bombers (Carrier)
1956 A-7 Corsair II
1969 A-6 Intruder
1983 F/A-18 Hornet
2008 F/A-35 Lightning II
I revised the list, BUT, since the recent aircraft are multi purpose F-18 and F-35, the need for separation of Fighters and Tac are needed no longer. Thoughts.
Should we make the F-18 & F-35 fighter or Tac size or maybe a in between size? I hate doing another size. Thoughts???
I’ll put my link up today- you can search it on eBay though if you want to bid now…its under “Axis and Allies SUPER Pack”.
SOLD
@ Coach,
I missed the pre-order for UK but just got some delivered today. I must say, THOSE PIECES ARE FANTASTIC SIR! The pictures do not do them justice I think they are even better than the recent Japanese and German sets and those were great too! I splurged and pre-ordered a few US sets too. We now will soon have armored cars for everyone LOL. The whole line-up for that set is going to be awesome.
As for the B-29, thank you, thank you, thank you. I have wanted a B-29 forever. I have the old TT ones but well….HBG does it better LOL.
Nice Work Sir!
Thank you!
Coach, Is there any reason why HBG and company has not produced a B-29 besides the Shapeways version? I do like the Shapeways units but frankly I’m not all that eager to deal with them.
coming in Spring 2015
I am working on some house rules that represent a shift in technology in carrier Based Aircraft.
I am torn trying to represent the aircraft since fighters will be smaller than tac bombers based on AAA scale.
(revised)
Fighters (Carrier)
1960-F-4 Phantom
1977-F-14 Tomcat
1999 F/A-18 Super Hornet
2015 F/A-35 Lightning II
Tac Bombers (Carrier)
1956 A-7 Corsair II
1969 A-6 Intruder
1983 F/A-18 Hornet
2008 F/A-35 Lightning II
Thoughts?
A global war expansion set.@knp7765:
@coachofmany:
Maybe I’m imagining it, but I think there’s a Japanese Battleship/Carrier, AKA a battleship with a flight deck. That’s a cool if not impractical vessel.
No, you are not imagining it. There were two battleship/carrier hybrids; the Ise and the Hyuga. They came about after the devastating loss of 4 fleet carriers at Midway. Japan was desperately trying to make up for the lost carriers. It was a novel idea, but I don’t think either one of the ships worked out very well.
Slated for 2015
What set will it be in? One of the Global Expansion sets or the upcoming boxed games?
Global War (Pacific) Expansion Set
Maybe I’m imagining it, but I think there’s a Japanese Battleship/Carrier, AKA a battleship with a flight deck. That’s a cool if not impractical vessel.
No, you are not imagining it. There were two battleship/carrier hybrids; the Ise and the Hyuga. They came about after the devastating loss of 4 fleet carriers at Midway. Japan was desperately trying to make up for the lost carriers. It was a novel idea, but I don’t think either one of the ships worked out very well.
Slated for 2015