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RE: Table Tactics New Product Release
Regarding Hungary, you can’t forget the Turan I tank. It was a pretty cool medium sized tank. I think it was a variation on the Panzer 38(t).
Hungary will have the 41.M Turan II tank & 43.M Zrinyi II tank destroyer
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Tomorrow is the last day for GenCon. Best part of the weekend was having Richard Borg stop by and he really liked the pieces. Of course he is not playing A&A with them but he did walk away with 2 sets of all 4 of the countries I had and will take the others when they are ready.
One company Friday picked up a set and wants to talk about producing a complete game and I have a meeting first thing in the morning with another company that liked the pieces.
If enough funds come in I will press forward with the second set if land unit. Or maybe I’m just dreaming. If so please don’t wake me. 8-)As soon as I get home I will start the designing the French tanks.
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Jack,
Great news! The french tanks will be much smaller than your other sets (I.e. Axis & Allies size) right?
Even with my scale the French tanks are small. I will measure them once I have the CAD models and let you know how big they are.
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soo jack you never answered if the planes are same size as the A&A
Once I create the cad models it is easy to scale them to any size. When I get to that point I will check back and get the measurements from you folks. :?
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@Imperious:
Hotchkiss H35 (Light Tank)
SOMUA S35 (Medium Tank)
Char B1 (Heavy Tank)Panhard 178 (Mech Inf/Armored Car)
Morane Saulnier MS.406 (Fighter)
Bloch M.B.170 (Tac Bomber)
Amiot 354 (Bomber)yes 100%. That is the way to go.
Jack i feel that honesty is most valued because your money is on the line and you have a long history of making great products for the AA community. I must tell you what i believe to be true, so please understand this is only to help you. I will buy many sets no matter what you do just to support your efforts. I know you know that. In fact i own about 30 packs of your products over the years and i used your units for my WW1 game as well as my WW3 game.
Hey Guys I have been out of work for 2 years. The wife is paying the bills. I told her we had to add a couple French tanks. She was surprised the French had tanks. Then I hit her up for the extra thousand bucks for machine time. She just smiles and said YES you well hung hunk you. 8-)
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+10000 to Jack making French pieces. After seeing his tanks, I know he can make a great Char B and SOMUA tank, plus mech inf, planes, etc.
Whaddya say Jack?
OK Reloader
I tracked down prints of the Char B & Somua tanks. Talked to my guys and told them I was adding both of these to the French tank selection. They said no problem, all they needed to do was go out and buy bigger wallets to hold more of my money.
Looking at these tanks you understand why the French fell so fast. 8-)
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Heading out to GenCon on Wednesday and won’t be back in town until the following Monday. I may not get much chance to post but I will catch up when I get home.
Dear I Leader
I know you don’t like my infantry units but you could use the Thompson and the FG42 as Airborne units. ;O)I remember my wife teasing me about playing with little army men. This must be part of what drove me to come up with the new style infantry.
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@Table:
I have one more land unit set I want to make :-)
Please let it be Norway.
A lot of people want to play the Invasion of Norway 1940 game, and need german and norvegian pieces, and besides the norvegian Krag-Jorgensen rifle will look great on that pidestal, not to mention the norvegian Qwizling-tanks that actually was the same size as the Tiger, only with a barely larger barrel.
Norway was not in the plan but could be added down the road if dollars allow.
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+10000 to Jack making French pieces. After seeing his tanks, I know he can make a great Char B and SOMUA tank, plus mech inf, planes, etc.
Whaddya say Jack?
Have not started cutting the French. They are last while I wait until the new A&A game comes out and I can match the color. I made a Hotchkiss tank for the French and put in Shermans for when they they are liberated. I will check out the Somua & Chars and see what I can do.
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TT are you going to make Fighter Planes?
Planes are on the list. I have one more land unit set I want to make and then planes are after that. :-)
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Some of why my products were less detailed is the fact that CAD models were not an option back then.
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I have designed a set of ships. If you recall my destroyers and cruisers were smaller then the battleship. I didn’t get to much flack at the time but A&A then just used generic pieces.
Shrinking the smaller ships would make one country ships indistinguishable from another but it would make it visibly easier to tell what you have and are attacking. The subs I designed are about half the size of the battleship and are still too big in scale. But that allowed me to offer a periscope option (having your periscope up or down).
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OK guys lets get something straight here. The A&A tanks have no scale and are not correct in length to width ratio.
When designing I even made a cad model of a hand to use in picking up the units. I recall having dropped pieces on the board when I was moving them and knocking other pieces out of place. Making the tanks smaller required the fingers to start bending and taking up more room on the board. I only used my hand as a model and it will be different for other with larger or smaller hands. And Yes I could stand to lose some weight but I think I’m in the majority.
On a lighter note Lt. Hanley tell me that Chip (Sgt. Saunders) sometimes looses his head and really should like the Thompson machine gun. Kirby thinks the BAR is great.
Now for the request an Italian unit picture. The have a tank and tank destroyer along with some Panther tanks loaned to them by Rommel.Hope the picture is added to this posting. Still not sure how to do this even after the Sgt. gave me directions.
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@Imperious:
The correct move would have been to make halftrack, tank, heavy tank, tank destroyer and selfpropelled artillery.
I think so too except the last two are really the same thing.
I see it as:
early war tank ( light)
midwar tank ( medium)
late war tank ( heavy)
SPA
Halftrackjack:
I swear to god you don’t realize the potential you got… Just make the tanks smaller and in colors to match axis and allies and you will triple the sales. 100%
If you do that and possibly sell the tanks separately from the infantry same price just more tanks…
Then you will have the money to seed all your other ideas… Also not sure what is holding up the Russians and Japanese?
Once you got the armor down, then rework the infantry and make actual toy soldiers… or if your idea is to make pieces that are not already axis and allies then make items like fortifications, rocket ( v2 sites, heavy bombers, airborne infantry ( not gun but soldier with gun) etc…
Thats the niche you created over the years and you should be true to that if it got you to this point. Make the pieces that AA does not cover.
Or perhaps just start a world war I line of pieces which have never been tried. :wink:
Much easier said then done. Requires many dollars and much planning.
I gotta go and take that picture and reply to the email that have already arrived.
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Yes I have designed ships and carriers of different sizes that hold from 1 to 4 planes. Everything so far has been WWII.
When I produced modern pieces they didn’t sell half as good as the WWII products. It is much tougher to justify building mold for modern units.Changing a color is not that hard but you first have to purchase concentrate to blend with the plastic. The cost of 50 pounds is $500 and you still have to pay for plastic and machine time. If I can see breaking even I would spend the money. Once I get the 8 countries completed ( that will be about 60 to 75 days) then I can run a different color of any country and have it ready in 2 days.
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I’m not going anywhere. I will check back every day. My job if I want to sell product is to try my best to please everyone. Well, I’ll try to get as many as I can.
Now my email address is jwgeisler@aol.com
I’m taking a picture of both the A&A Panther and my Panther right next to each other. As I have not yet figured out how to insert an image here I will email anyone a pic. -
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Hi TT, why didnt you make artillery ?
Just 5 different rifles and 5 different tanks, and you want the customers to make the rules ?
I loved your old products with rockets, mines, jets, jeeps, landing crafts, halftracks etc.
But now I think you got lost.
Honestly. :cry: :cry: :cry:
Look, A&A already has artillery. Step 1 as I seen it was to expand on the infantry and Armor units options. I have a second set designed once these are completed that will include trucks, mobile artillery, mobile AA guns…
As for rules, I am meeting with some game designers next weekend at GenCon about putting together a complete product. Our goal is to have a product with 200 pieces with a hard board, rules, player aids and boxed to sell for $60.
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@CWO:
@Table:
When I designed the new tanks I used the A&A Sherman as what I would make the smallest tank. Tanks like the Stuart would be that size. Then I scaled up the other tanks from that size so they would be in correct proportion to each other.
Thanks for the clarifications. So in other words, the TT tanks are correctly proportioned relative to each other, but they are on a different scale compared with the A&A tanks, and the reason that the smaller TT tanks are the same size as the A&A tanks is that the smallest TT ones depict smaller types of tanks than the ones depicted by A&A.
YES :-o
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When I designed the new tanks I used the A&A Sherman as what I would make the smallest tank. Tanks like the Stuart would be that size. Then I scaled up the other tanks from that size so they would be in correct proportion to each other.
You will have to decide how you want to write rules.
Japan had small tanks but had no competition so they ruled until the Sherman arrived. While the Sherman had to overwhelm the German with numbers. The challenge to you is how to write the rules.
For some reason I see the sale of 12 & 16 sided dice going up. :-)