Jack, almost forgot, we need cavalry too. What would the French and Russians do without them?
Die slower
Jack, almost forgot, we need cavalry too. What would the French and Russians do without them?
Die slower
I have not seen a popular WWI game. I played one and I was the Russian’s. The whole game for me was building infantry and taking dead infantry off the board. I’m not knocking the idea but making it historical may be a bit boring (in WWI the lines never move much)?
@Imperious:
I want a playable WW1 Axis Allies game in time for the 2014 anniversary date.
jack, if you can do this i already got the game to support it.
When your ready to make some really nice WW1 units, let us know.
I wish you went in this direction in the first place. You wont be competing with anybody.
I should be picking up a copy of the new A&A Europe this week so that I can get a French piece to match the color. 8-)
We want FRENCH units!
We want FRENCH units!
We want FRENCH units!
We want FRENCH units!
:-D
The Art of Argument: My kids started training in argument as soon as they learned the work NO. Will your critical thinking allow the students to watch news that is fair and balanced?
Latin for Children: You may want to make a second version for Priests. It seems many of our Catholic Priest need to learn Latin.
History for Children: That sounds great. I’m reading The Bulletproof George Washington. If only our kids could learn that part of our history. But it talks about faith in God so it will not be allowed. :cry:
Well, I hate to toot my own horn, but if you insist…
So far I’ve published a logic/ critical thinking text for teenagers called The Art of Argument and a 3-part Latin for grammar-school students series called Latin for Children.
Right now I’m working on my next project, a four-part history of the world for youngsters to be called History for Children.
Come on now and plug the book here. I may just pick up a copy now that I know the author. :-o
All great suggestions Dr but I have to say I am a little tapped out of dollars right now. I’m still looking for a job to support this bad habit.
I am looking at setting up my own retail operation. This would allow me to reduce prices and still increase return on investment. This month I am just focused on getting the Russian’s done.Well, that’s a shame. If I had it, I’d offer you the venture capital. As it is, I might be able to if my book sales keep going up, but even so I probably couldn’t in the short term. (Royalty payments only come in twice a year…) But keep us posted on your progress. And if you do get your retail operation up-and-running, let us know so we can order straight from you and maximize your ROI.
T-71?!? What’s that? Never heard of it.
Hey Dr Larsen. I haven’t heard of the T-71 either. Here’s a pic of the T-70. Maybe the T-71 is an improved variant of this tank.
That is it but mine is much much much smaller :-D
The Russian’s will have the ever popular T-34 with the T-71 & SU-85.
Yeah, much as I hate to agree with IL… :-D…
I think you’re tanks would be fine if they looked right next to AA tanks, but they are too big for AA and not detailed enough for the hardcore tactical wargamer types. As some others mentioned, they might work with other plastic-based games, like ToI or Memoir '44, but I’m no expert on that. You’re best bet is probably to do like you were saying and create your own game to go with them, though such a game is unlikely to require French or Hungarian units, since more tactical-level games focus on the “big guys” and more iconic, late-war tank models, especially US, UK, German and Soviet models. I’m not sure what sort of game would include Japanese and Italian units at the same time, but then I’m still glad you’re making those two countries, as I just think they’re cool, so I want to get at least one set of each to show my support and possibly come up with a use for later. So I’ll definitely pick up your Japanese set and I am eagerly awaiting your Soviet set, even if I haven’t decided what I’m going to do with it just yet, long term.
I probably will use your the Cromwells and Pershings until I have an alternative heavy-tank option for the US and the UK and continue to use TWG pieces for the German heavy tanks until I find something better. When your Soviets come out, I hope they include a JS2, and if they do, that will become my provisional Soviet heavy tank. (Do Italy and Japan even really need one? Well, if they do, I already have your Italians and will get your Japanese…) But I’m going to hold off on making a really big purchase to replace all of the A&A tanks in my top-shelf AAA set until I see what all the options will be after I have a clearer picture of what your proposed in-scale A&A set will be and also what FMG is going to offer.
Fishmoto: I think TT was pulling your leg, as he’s already gotten so much heat for his tanks being too big.
You got it Dr :-D
As long as I keep coming around Imp Leader will keep reminding me. :roll:
All great suggestions Dr but I have to say I am a little tapped out of dollars right now. I’m still looking for a job to support this bad habit.
I am looking at setting up my own retail operation. This would allow me to reduce prices and still increase return on investment. This month I am just focused on getting the Russian’s done.
TT Suggestions:
For your first complete-compatible AA40-assessories set, I suggest the French. FMG sounds as though he’s going to take his sweet time getting to them, and yet with the WotC chimps absurdly giving the French Soviet vehicles, I sense an opportunity here.
You previously mentioned that coloring is one of the expensive issues you struggle with, which makes me think: Now that WotC has a decent French infantryman that works equally well for WW1 Frenchies, maybe doing a run of your old “Central Powers” kit in that same color would sell.
Or maybe even better, you could simultaneously do a new-from-the-ground-up WW1 set in the same color; possibly you could recycle some sculpts for this set (i.e., “Central Powers” tanks, mg’s & artillery + “AA40 Accessories” Frenchie infantry.) Or even better, do some cool WW1 sculpts from scratch. Nice WW1 BB’s would be pretty easy to do, for instance. (Check out the excellent, but too big, examples from Panzerschiffe, for instance.)
@Table:
Picked up the Japanese from the shop yesterday,
:| … Is that a broken/bent gun I see on the first tank? And stress marks on one of the others. :(
It was a bent gun but only on the first set-up shoots. With the mold action going side to side it could not be a stress issue. More a filling and temperature issue. I checked some of the production boxes and they seem to all be good.
@Table:
Picked up the Japanese from the shop yesterday,
:| … Is that a broken/bent gun I see on the first tank? And stress marks on one of the others. :(
You have going back out to look at the pieces but I believe they are all good. It could be that I’m taking the picture from about 4 inches and it was indoors with a flash.
The bunkers are nice but tanks need to be bigger. :-D
Wow! I dug a couple of tanks from The War Game out of storage to compare and I found that the new TT pieces dwarf even them! TT’s Panther is about the size of TWG’s Tiger! TT’s Elephant is about the size of TWG’s Maus! (interesting double irony there, I guess…) Yeah, I have to say, TT: you’d best scale them down for AAA compatibility.
Yes I got my four sets of TT units yesterday and the tanks are quite large. For the most part not good for AA. Maybe can be used for BotB using ILs larger map. I made my first two bunkers out of the infantry pedestals. Cut the gun off the top and then drilled a small hole in the center of the portal that is located on the edge. Glued a portion of a gun in the drilled hole. Looks like one of those small bunkers on the Maginot line.
Check out my photo of bunker prototypes made from TT infantry units next to AA tanks.
Picked up the Japanese from the shop yesterday,
By the end of September I hope to know if TT will be changing direction to produce a complete product set. If that ends up being the direction we go it could be done in 6 to 9 months. That would be a 9 country set with land, sea & air units. In the scales and units requested.
My limits now is that I am a one man one wallet operation.
Just to be clear, TT, please don’t see this as a critique of your pieces, per se. I actually think I rather like them in the size that they are. The issue isn’t one of perfect accuracy; in this we aren’t like the miniatures/ tactical wargamer. I think I can speak with confidence that the strategic wargamer, represented by the AAA boardgames crowd is more interested and more concerned with the overall look of the piece set, on the board, as a whole, rather than individually perfect pieces.
…So, if you did a complete set of pieces with AFV’s all set to the scale of yours, planes set to a scale not bigger than TWG, infantry to somewhere around HO scale, ships not bigger than 1/3000 scale, etc, all in affordable plastic… I’d happily fill my FMG Ammo box with them and be thrilled with the purchase!
The problem comes when you have less than a complete set from any one manufacturer and thus have to mix and match.
And the only manufacturer that makes a usably complete model line (in affordable plastic, anyway) currently is WotC, so if your goal is to create a set of accessories that supplements or fills in the gaps in their line-up, matching them in color and size is gonna be key.
FMG has promised such a set eventually, though, so perhaps filling in FMG’s gaps is the ideal project (Unless FMG takes too long, in which case an alternative complete set might be an opportunity…) You’re idea of creating a perfect board might also be a good one, perhaps supplemented with doing some categories FMG couldn’t get to in their first run (like “Superbattleships” or “paratroops”). If you two coordinated, it could be ideal: him doing a complete piece set and an awesome piece storage box, you doing a compatible supplementary piece set and an awesome new board! I’d spend some money putting together a set like that! (I already have started to, actually, having sprung for the ammo box, along with just about any AAA and accessory product I’ve ever been able to find…)
With pieces, though, the key is, to either be COMPLETE or COMPATIBLE, because if you’re neither then the strategic gamer doesn’t know what to do with your stuff and will buy some to show his support, perhaps, but not nearly as much as he would otherwise.
Jack,
I hear the final nail in the coffin for the French pieces…
Methinks that they will be in A&A size after all? Tell us it is so!
The French tanks are not cut yet and I will let you know after I get the additional tanks in cad what size they are in my scale and consider you requests. 8-)
My cad computer caught a virus and is out of action at the moment. Also using the scale function is simple. Once the tank is designed it only take a few clicks to change the size.
Yes we want big boards, but lets face it your tanks are out of scale with the other ground troop pieces. I just dont get the infantry sorry. :| I think a real oppertunity missed here. If you change what your doing in the future, I will happily buy your products.
Things needed:
anti-tank guns
German Rail Gun
Fixed artillery gun (like Singapore 1942 game)
Coastal defense guns
blockhouses
Rail stations
Kayusha rockets and German V2 rockets
Even with tiny tanks that are smaller then infantry units, how would you fit all this stuff on the board?
Hmm, I think I might have mixed them in with some old wider panthers. I don’t know if I noticed any difference vs previous wider panthers, but maybe I wasn’t looking close enough. The bottom line is that for me to use it, a tiger/JSII class tank MUST be at least noticeably bigger than the wider version of the panther to make sense and avoid heavy/medium tank confusion. That probably means creating a Pershing that is a little larger than scale. Same for a Cromwell if that’s what we’re stuck with for UK heavy tank, though the Cromwell was actually in the Sherman/Panzer IV/T-34 class. The UK should really use Cromwells instead of, or as an equivalent option for, Shermans in the medium class. The UK could then use Comets for a size-up heavy. (The Panther was actually heavier than the Sherman/Cromwell/Panzer IV/T-34 class of tanks; you could argue that a US Pershing and/or UK Comet was more an equivalent of a Panther than of a Tiger or JSII, but having 4 sizes is definitely too many; I’m not sure if I’d even really use more than 2 in my own house rules.)
No one else even had a tank in the heavy class that I know of.
I see the Tiger in a class by it’s self. There were other larger tanks but they never seemed to make production or much less see the battlefield.
This is where I am confused. All of you seem to have a great knowledge of WWII armor and talk like miniature players that want a game board with area and hex movement instead of pulling out a tape measure over Astroturf on a Ping-Pong table. So I tried to make a group of crossover armor and most of you think they are to big. When I put them on some of the A&A maps they work fine except in Europe. But in Europe nothing works because of the small areas and it is the focus of most of the battles. My new and more tank and infantry options do add to the problem but I think a new map is in order with an eyeglass view of Europe.
Sorry I have been away for a few days with family emergencies.
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Wow! I dug a couple of tanks from The War Game out of storage to compare and I found that the new TT pieces dwarf even them! TT’s Panther is about the size of TWG’s Tiger! TT’s Elephant is about the size of TWG’s Maus! (interesting double irony there, I guess…) Yeah, I have to say, TT: you’d best scale them down for AAA compatibility.
Yes I got my four sets of TT units yesterday and the tanks are quite large. For the most part not good for AA. Maybe can be used for BotB using ILs larger map. I made my first two bunkers out of the infantry pedestals. Cut the gun off the top and then drilled a small hole in the center of the portal that is located on the edge. Glued a portion of a gun in the drilled hole. Looks like one of those small bunkers on the Maginot line.
Not that I am happy your cutting my guns off but I kind of thank that is a cool move on making bunkers.