@debjyoti1981 said in Axis & Allies WW1 Units Shortage:

With the initial set-up of Germany & France, I’ve noticed, in case of Germany, no infantry units remained after initial game set-up. It seems this will become a serious issue when following situations will arise:

1. Invasion of hostile territory will require an Infantry unit
   

2. An army in a territory must contain at least one infantry unit (Rule-book Page 15 -Phase 2: Movement)
   

3. Contested situation will require 1 infantry unit
   

This situation will become more critical at the European theater, I’ve noticed at the end of the initial set-up two countries hugely affected with unit shortage would be British Empire & Germany, as by the time all infantry units will be used up.

I had already mailed the Support team, this is what they have to say:

Hello,

Thanks for contacting Wizards of the Coast Customer Service! Unfortunately we no longer support A&A 1914, our Product Replacement team no longer has pieces for this version of the game. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Joseph‍
Wizards of the Coast | Customer Service Representative

Where can the additional set be brought? At ebay.com did not find replacement set for Germany, UK & Austria-Hungary

I think I’ll point out one issue you may have missed:
If you move all of your units out of a territory you control, you still retain control of that territory until an enemy moves into and captures it. (A&A 1914 Rule Book, pg 15).

This means that you do not need to maintain infantry in every territory you control. Now you do have to keep infantry in territories where you otherwise have troops, An army in a territory must contain at least one infantry unit. (A&A 1914 Rule Book, pg 15). But if you pull everybody out, you don’t need to leave a trail of infantry behind.

I’m not saying that A&A '14 has all of the pieces it should have, but the piece shortage is exacerbated when you leave garrisons behind when you don’t need to.

My 2 IPCs,

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The F4U Corsairs can also be bought by themselves: HBG Link for F4U Corsairs.

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I like the rounded corner squares better than the circles, personally.

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@bfreestone2002 The fighter would have the opportunity to defend itself against the cruiser and the battleship. The submarine would sit out the rest of the battle, and I like the odds of the cruiser or the battleship hitting the fighter before the fighter scores two hits on the attacking fleet, but the fighter still has eligible targets to strike in defense of that sea zone.

IF the scene was a solo submarine attack against carrier and fighter, if the sub sank the carrier in the first strike, the fighter would still get a chance to find somewhere else to land. It would not sink with the carrier.

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@Patchman123 said in A&A Global Setups & Components (under construction):

@Young-Grasshopper said in A&A Global Setups & Components (under construction):

50th ANNIVERSARY EDITION COMPONENTS
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Where’s France’s total number of pieces?

This is the setup for the Anniversary Edition. France is not a player power in that edition.

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@Patchman123 said in EXACT pieces count for Pacific/Europe 1940 Second Edition:

@Midnight_Reaper said in EXACT pieces count for Pacific/Europe 1940 Second Edition:

@Patchman123:

What am I looking for is NOT a combined count for Pacific and Europe 1940 put together as one whole game, but rather, how many infantry there are in Pac. 1940 Sec. Ed? Not just infantry, but ALL pieces.

How many pieces for all the games? PER GAME, NOT combined.

Question already answered: @Midnight_Reaper:

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Where is it exactly? I notice that there are pieces with nummeration on the bottom for sorting them out all by country, minus ANZAC, which has none on any of its infantry pieces in Second Edition.

The change of forum software has borked some of the old links to on-site posts. Here is a link to what can be found in a copy of Europe 1940, SE and a copy of Pacific 1940, SE: read for yourself.

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@The-Janus said in A List of Expansions for Milton Bradley-era Axis & Allies:

Imp Games’ East & West technically came out in 2001, but is closer mechanically to MB A&A, than it is to the A&A:Europe or A&A:Pacific games that came out around the same time (or anything since.) AFAICT the map specifically is derivative of Xeno Game’s World at War.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgameexpansion/6441/east-west-global-war-1948

I have East & West over on another page: A List of “Games” that are Axis & Allies Expansions in Disguise (at the top of the list, actually). While I don’t argue that the decisions what belongs where are absolute, I do see a distinction between expansions that can’t be played without the base game and stand-alone games that can be used as either their own game or as an expansion to another game.

I hope all of that makes sense.

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@Argothair Funny thing is, this is a example of an idea coming along early - Oztea’s Garrisons are mostly the same thing as A&A&Z’s Recruitment Centers. Main differences being that Garrisons can make more than just infantry and when Recruitment Centers make infantry, they do it at normal price. Of course, the fact that this thread is 10 years old may mean that it’s just you and me in here for now.

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@CWO-Marc said in Custom carriers from OOB's and painted pieces:

@DMcLaren said in Custom carriers from OOB's and painted pieces:

When FOlewnik was researching the Taiho & Shinano, he noticed that the sculpt is much closer to the Taiho in it’s layout than it is the Shinano.

Interesting observation; I had never noticed this. Another point of comparison to check would be the hulls of the carrier sculpt and of the battleship sculpt. The scale is too small to allow much detail, and the Yamato sculpt has a few other accuracy problems (notably the stern, whose scallopped shape is too pointy), but technically a difference between the carrier’s hull shape (below the flight deck) and the battleship’s hull shape would further prove that the carrier isn’t the Shinano because the Shinano and the two Yamato-class battleships had identical hulls. Shinano was originally intended to be the third unit of the battleship class, but she was converted into a carrier in mid-construction.

While all of that is true, when Hasbro/WotC/AH print in the manual that it’s supposed to be a Shinano, I’m left to assume that the sculptors fudged it up. Should they be the same? Yes. Are they the same? No. Does it matter? Not really.

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@IWillNeverGrowUp said in 35 mm Metal Flight Stands Coming to Kickstarter Feb 29th!:

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I Will Never Grow Up Games will be running a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign starting on Tuesday, February 29th and running for 17 days for the production of 35 mm high Metal Flight Stands and another batch of 25 mm Flight Stands.
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I assume you might February 19th. As there is no February 29th this year and even if there was, it wouldn’t be on a Tuesday.

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