Did a test print of some unit pieces for Battle of France 1940. Still have to work on them a bit (especially the aircraft that did not turn out well enough to show yet … wings are far too thin right now) but they’re getting there! Also missing is the french tank (did not print because of an unlevel printer bed).
@cavestone said in Thinning Paint and Fine Details?:
Thanks to both of you. Another question, is it worth buying the proprietary thinners/retarders/flow aids or does distilled work the same, better, worse?
Distilled or tap water will reduce the pigmentation of your paint, which in such small scale (and if you use only a little to just thin it a bit … not too much, and always on a palette, not in the bottle) is not a big deal.
If using water, definitely go easy on it. Never more than 50/50, but I wouldn’t even go that thin personally. I’d go more with something like 80/20 (Paint/Water).
I REALLY like using Acrylic Matte Medium. It’s a thinner but it maintains the pigmentation of your paint, and it adds a matte finish to it at the same time. YOu can also get Gloss medium if you like the gloss look, but in either case I personally use a Matte varnish on top of all my minis anyway, so matte medium works for me. (Techincal: Acrylic Medium is an Acrylic Polymer Emulsion that is used as the binding agent for acrylic paints, just without any color pigmentation added).
Another decent tip is to make sure each successive coat is just a little THICKER than the previous coat (so you’re starting with very thin and working your way up to that 80/20 mix) and you’ll likely at this scale only want to do a max of 3 coats for your base colors and 1-2 for details and line work.
We play both 41 and 42 with NO’s and never do bids. We probably get about a 60/40 Axis/Allied win ratio.
Without NO’s just doesn’t feel right.
@SS-GEN said in Hoping for a new A&A game:
Only thing I heard is from an e mail Larrys working on a new game. Don’t quote me on this but I thought it was a napoleon game. I’ll have to recheck.
Correct, “Imperial Boarders”.
There’s even video out of it being play tested. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2Tp3ndePZk)
However, it’s not Axis and Allies related and not being published through WotC.
@TheVenocWarlord said in Battle of France 1940 (Revised) - Available to order, Print on Demand & Digital Files (PDF):
@IWillNeverGrowUp said in Battle of France 1940 (Revised) - Available to order, Print on Demand & Digital Files (PDF):
Box Retail version also reduced to us$54.99 (from $59.99).
Still working on getting printed sculpts, but our 3d printers have been 100% tasked to making PPE for frontline workers for the past 3 months.
If we ordered before the price drop, does anything change there?
Send me your email address AND city+state/province+country in a private message and I’ll refund you $5 via PayPal (we don’t have any control over payments made through The Game Crafter as it’s a 3rd party service).
Thinning your paints will allow you to make multiple very thin coats (with sufficient drying time between coats) instead of 1 or 2 quick thick coats. What this does is provides a smoother, more detailed paint job instead of the typical globs of paint that thick paints will provide on small surfaces.
Definitely thin them. Regular water works fine for acrylics. Distilled water is preferred (no contaminants).
Regarding enamel, people have used them to good effect, but I personally hate them. I find enamels too difficult to work with, take too long to dry compared to acrylics and they smell bad.
A co-worker of mine just told me today that he passed up buying a complete copy (less a bit of box damage) of this version for CA$70 last week because he didn’t think it was legitimate … I screamed at him.
I Will Never Grow Up Games is moving once more, for the final time to a permanent location!
As a result, we will have very little stock available during the transition and new orders will be slower than usual to ship as we renovate/remodel the new location and prepare to move.
We hope to have everything back up and running 100% as of Dec 1.
Thank you for your business and your patience during this disruption!
@TheVenocWarlord said in Battle of France 1940 (Revised) - Available to order, Print on Demand & Digital Files (PDF):
For Blitzkreig, are all the powers supposed to have access to it? It reads as such in the rules.
Yes, all powers have access to it (merely called Blitzkreig because people know what that is, based on my understanding of the original rules).
@cavestone Looking great! Painting this scale is challenging but certainly can be fun!
Yup, FMG closed it’s doors several years ago and we (I Will Never Grow Up Gaming) are the ones who have all remaining stock.
Historical Board Gaming also sells some FMG Combat Dice as our US reseller.
I Will Never Grow Up has (mostly) completed a major relocation and renovations to our new, permanent home just in time to also celebrate our 10th anniversary serving the board gaming community!
As such we are having our Grand Re Opening + 10th Anniversary Sale, on now until February 28th!
Save on a selection of items, while supplies last!
Due to high volume, orders will take longer than normal to ship out. Please be patient and thank you for your understanding.
http://www.iwillnevergrowup.com
@iwillnevergrowup said in I Will Never Grow Up moving AGAIN - Permanent location inbound!:
I Will Never Grow Up Games is moving once more, for the final time to a permanent location!
As a result, we will have very little stock available during the transition and new orders will be slower than usual to ship as we renovate/remodel the new location and prepare to move.
We hope to have everything back up and running 100% as of Dec 1.
Thank you for your business and your patience during this disruption!
Well, as you may (or may not) have noticed, we did not get everything sorted by December 1st.
Our new, Relocation Grand Re-Opening AND 10th Anniversary Sale will begin on January 15th (to February 28), 2023!
I will note, Renegade doesn’t make any games with plastic units. That would seem to be a pretty big hurdle to me to taking on A&A. At this point, maybe that is just fire and forget for the old stuff as its all subcontracted to China, which has all the old molds and production down pat. But anything new, and easy to see renegade losing its shirt.
I wouldn’t say they don’t make ANY games with plastic “units”. There are at least three;
Dead Men Tell No Tales
My Fathers Work
Power Rangers Heroes of the Grid
And it looks like maybe their GI Joe game may have some in there …
Admittedly not in the hundreds of pieces like A&A, but they are highly detailed molded miniatures (including a fancy separate miniatures pack upgrade for DMTNT).
TBH, for a publisher the size of Renegade, they’d have zero issues dealing with plastic minis. If a small time publisher like me can manage without any hurdles (if I could get the funding that is), they can as well. COST would be something that they’d have to factor in but that’s beyond our knowledge as we have no idea how well capitalized they may be or what their risk tolerance is.
I Will Never Grow Up Games is moving once more, for the final time to a permanent location!
As a result, we will have very little stock available during the transition and new orders will be slower than usual to ship as we renovate/remodel the new location and prepare to move.
We hope to have everything back up and running 100% as of Dec 1.
Thank you for your business and your patience during this disruption!
@johnson73 said in can not Register on FMG website:
@panther Didn’t FMG go out of business?
Quite a few years back now, yes. I cant believe the url is still active as neither owners maintain the business now.
We’ve come in to a lot of 1/144 scale Dragon Models modern Armed Forces vehicles and are selling them off!
https://iwillnevergrowup.com/product-category/minis/minis-other/
All in quantity and some in either Desert or Camo patterns!
@tvarberg said in China - placing new infantry:
@panther said in China - placing new infantry:
Every power that will not be attacked and that maximizes (or at least tries to maximize) their IPC gains and unit builts will be able to achieve huge amounts of units
Yes, you are very right.
My point is just that the China rules to me are very unclear (in terms of Mobilize New Units)
And that you can just over come the “max three or more rule” by moving China’s units and make space for the new units.Thought I misunderstood the rules, but seems like it’s not the case because basically we are on the same page in terms of the rules I can see.
You are correct. As long as there are no units in a Chinese territory, they can place up to 3 units there during mobilization. So if you move all units out of a territory, you can then place your new units there, and repeat this ad-nauseum.
It’s not overpowered though as Chinese units can not leave China, so if this is happening chances are Japan is ignoring China anyway (as they can easily go around and ignore it). So go ahead a load up those infantry in China. If they are being completely ignored by Japan (I frequently ignore China as Japan), they’ll sit there, completely useless.
@dsumner said in Sci-fi themed A&A like games?:
Each turn being 6 Months is just there as time frame players would be familiar with, as I’m trying not to make things to complicated
Just make each turn a “turn”/“round” of the game. No need to attach an arbitrary time to it. Even a turn/round timeframe in A&A is debated (I personally don’t see it as any set amount of real-world time, others see it as a set number of months, etc).
@general-6-stars said in Is this Kickstarter now officially dead?:
@iwillnevergrowup said in Is this Kickstarter now officially dead?:
To be honest, I (thankfully) avoided backing from the start because there was, imho (as a publisher) no realistic way this game was being made (properly anyway) for the funding goal they were asking for. Not in my experience at least, though I’d be happy to be wrong.
4 years later and the prices have only skyrocketed on absolutely every step of the manufacturing, freight and delivery process making it even less likely. Plus the constant changes to the game since funding boggles my mind. Wasn’t the game done and ready to go before it was put up for funding?
I feel for those who backed this. I really do. This is a horrible situation and a stain on the entire industry when things like this happen.
That said, I really really DO hope that I’m entirely wrong and you all get your game. Eric did post in the kickstarter comments yesterday.
You got a link to where this Eric posted in Kickstarter comments ?
Yup, as Panther replied with.
Unfortunately, the comment update (which is par for the course it seems … updates where it takes work to find) essentially says the exact same thing he was saying back in 2019 with the pieces finally (?) prepped for the mold process (as they were also in 2019 and 2020). You know; stuff that should have been ready to go when the funding wrapped up if not within a couple of months of.
Honestly … there is zero excuse for this having taken 4+ years and still nothing of substance to show. (in my opinion).