Jeremy,
You have my support, if you and Coach hadn’t invested in this type of AA units we would be stuck with Xeno, and Avlon Hill units. I look forward to FMG’s return in 2013 back to being a solvent company.
WARRIOR888
Jeremy,
You have my support, if you and Coach hadn’t invested in this type of AA units we would be stuck with Xeno, and Avlon Hill units. I look forward to FMG’s return in 2013 back to being a solvent company.
WARRIOR888
IL,
Awesome! RR guns and Destroyers are really cool. Artillery looks like WWI Artillery. Tried to zoom in and see what type of Dreadnoughts you have created but was not able to.
Keep up the excellent work, Can’t wait to get several copies of your game for myself.
WARRIOR888
IL,
You have some excellent examples of WWI Aircraft. You impressed my wife with your WWI aircraft and that is hard to do! Can’t wait to see what you create for Infantry, Calvary, Artillery and naval firepower.
Waiting to hear you have released it for purchase. I will one of the first in line purchase :-D :-D :-D.
WARRIOR888
@Tall:
@Imperious:
WW2
ww1
civil war
napoleonic
modernin that order
I agree(Grin)
I agreem WWII FIRST
“Tall Paul”
Gentlemen,
ive been out of commission for awhile dealing with some medical issues.
Here is my suggestions for a Commonwealth/UK set from Coach.
Battleship: HMS King George V or HMS Nelson both would be iconic.
Battle Cruiser: HMS Renown she survied the war.
Carrier: HMS Eagle early war, HMS Implacable for late war.
Cruiser: HMS Belfast you can actually tour her in the Thames river in London.
Light Cruiser: HMS Dido AA cruiser.
Destroyer: HMS Towne Class.
Fighter: Hawker Hurricane
Tac Bomber: Typhoon with rockets
Heavy Bomber: Sterling
Transport: Horsa Glider
Torpedo Bomber, Swordfish
Early Tank: Crusader II or III
Mid War: Churchill III or IV
Heavy Tank: Comet, Black Prince or Centurion
Artillery: 5.5 Inch Howitzer or 7 Inch Howitzer, UK used a bunch of them.
Anti-Tank Gun: 6 lb or 7 lb guns
SPA: Archer.
Infantry Red Devil Para sculpt.
Royal Marine Commando sculpt.
Truck: Bedford 6 x 4
Mech: Bren carrier.
AA gun: Bofor 40mm
If a Chinese set is done here is my suggestions.
Cruiser: Light only they had 6 till the Japanese destroyed or captured them in 1937.
Gunboats:
Tanks: Renault FT-17s, Vickers 6 Ton, T-26 Light Tanks, 88 received from the Russians.
Med Tanks: M4- Sherman at least 812 where sent to China by the USA.
AA 88mm Flak 18 they used 20 provided by Germany at the start of the war until the IJA captured them 1937.
Mech: Russian BA-10 and BA-20 Armoured Cars.
Truck: Carden Lyold Carriers.
Infantry in German helment.
Calvary
Artillery: Russian 76mm
Fighter: P-40 Warhawk to rep the Flying Tigers They wanted 650 received a total of 369 aircraft.
Bomber: Hudson was going to provided to them by the USA before Pear Harbor.
If Coach does his own Iconic Italian set here are some suggestions.
Battleship: Andrea Doria Class or Conte di Cavour Class
Heavy Cruiser: Zara class
Light Cruiser: Montecuccoli class
Infantry: Italian Black Shirts
Infantry: Italian Alpani Mountain troops
Infantry: Bersaglieri
Infantry: Folgore Italian Paratroopers
Artillery: 100mm Howitzer, 149mm Howitzer
Ant-Tank gun: 47mm or 75mm
SPA: Semovente M42 da 75/18 or Semovente M41M da 90/53
Mech: Autoblinda AB41
Truck: Breda 32 or Dovunque SPA 41
Light Tank: Carro Armato M11/39
Med Tank: Carro Armato M15/42
Heavy Tank: Carro Armato Pesante 26/40 ???
AA: 88 mm or 102mm
SP ATG: Semovente M42T da 75/46
WARRIOR888
Gentlemen,
Here are the HO and 1/72nd scale Infantry units I have been using for the 20 years.
All these were purchased from the following manufacture’s who are still producing them.
AIRFIX, UK, HASEGAWA, JAPAN, MATCHBOX, UK, REVELL, USA AND GERMANY, HELLER, FRANCE, ITALERI, ITALY, IMEX, ITALY, MINI ART, JAPAN. No decent USA company was producing these type of units when I was in the market for these.
YOU CAN FIND THEM ALL AT MICHIGAN TOY SOLDIER COMPANY
A bunch of them are re-issues.
8th Army, British Army, Afrika Korps, Italian Army, Italian Bergsarali, Japanese Army, Luftwaffe personnel, RAF Personnel, UK Commandos, Waffen SS, SS Panzer Gren, Red Guards, Russian Army, US Army, USMC, US Airborne, British Paras, ANZAC, New Zealand, French Army, Italian Mountain troops, Gurkhas, Royal Marines, German Paratroops, 101st Airborne, 82nd Airborne, UK Red Devils.
Most sets when I purchased them contained between 40 to 60 men and some include additional weapons such as machine guns, mortars, radiomen, wounded and dead men panzerfaust and bazooka teams and flame throwers.
WARRIOR888
CWO Marc,
The Shermans I received in my new game have non-standard turrents. They are grossly de-formed.
It looks like a mold issue or they did it on purpose. The are molded with the heavy part of the turrent on top and the small part close to the hull. It looks like in the process they got the tank turrent mold upside down.
Gentlemen as stated here is my take on the AA 1940 Pacific second Edition Units.
ANZAC:
Destroyer Tribal excellent choice.
Heavy Cruiser Kent class HMAS Australia was actually one of this class. Good Choice.
HMS Warspite for a Battleship bad choice. 4 Royal Sovereigns would have been more acceptable seeing they were actually used in the Indian Ocean at the same time the Japanese attacked Ceylon. I am taking my Warspites and putting them into my Royal Navy and replacing them with Royal Sovereigns.
Canadian APC? Only reason I can think it was choosen it because of its name of Kangaroo.
Sentinel tank, different but does anyone recall them actually using them in combat???
Fighter and bomber and do not know much about them, but they are different. P-40 War Hawk would have been my choice for a fighter.
Aircraft carrier is unique but was not actually launched till after the war was over. I do like since it gives a different carrier to the ANZACs.
Transport is excellent choice.
40mm AA is a good choice. This unit was used by just about all Common Wealth Forces worldwide.
ANZAC Infantry, they blew it. My Hawsagawa and AirAFix 1/72nd men will replace these guys. Maybe I will convert them to a 1776 war game. I will not use them for AA.
Atillery: 5.5 inch Howitzer a good choice, I know the UK used them after D-Day but before???
Japanese:
AH Wizards really missed a good chance to improve all these units.
Battleship Yamato, just how many do we really need? They could easily replaced it with a Fuso or Mutsu class sculpt, but alas they stuck with a Yamato. I have so many I am converting them to all kinds of IJN Never Where ships such as B-64 Battle Cruisers, A-150 and A-140 Super Yamato’s and a catarmaran BB/dual CV combo.
Cruiser another missed Chance, they should have re-worked this exsisting one into a Mogami or Nachi Class Heavy Cruiser.
Artillery: Should have been upgraded to a IJA 105mm Howitzer.
Tank should have replaced with a medium Tank.
Transport this should have been converted to the new one from new mini AA game.
Bomber Betty should have bee replaced with a Nell.
Zero, sclupt could have added more detail to.
Dive Bomber, I would have added more detail.
Sub could have been changed to a different I- Class boat.
Infantry: Could have been re-sculpted into a charging unit.
AA Gun is cool and so is the IJA Halftrack. German SDKFZ 251 just never did fit the IJA. Should have been replaced along time ago.
USA
Battleship Iowa, Too many Iowas, This should have been converted to an earlier war Battleship such as the Washington or South Dakota Class.
Carrier: Wasp should have been replaced by a Essex Class or Yorktown class.
Cruiser, A Baltimore Heavy Cruiser Class or Cleveland Light Cruiser would have been great.
Destroyer, Fletcher class.
Transport, No change.
Submarine, No Change.
Fighter should have been a Hellcat or P-40.
TBF Avenger, No Change.
Bomber, B-17 no Change.
Tank, M4-Lee instead of that ugly new stlye Sherman. If they wanted to use a Sherman should have used the one from the original AA Pacific 1940. The new Sherman is just Ugly. Going to get rid of them and use the older AA Shermans and my Davco’s instead.
AA 90mm Excellent Choice.
M-3 halftrack perfect.
Infantry no change.
UK
Battleship Royal Sovereign should have been replaced by a Prince of Wales or the Warspite.
Carrier: How many Illustrious does one need? an actual Ark Royal would have been perfect.
Cruiser, No Change
Destroyer, excellent choice.
Transport, no Change.
Infantry, coverted to Gurkas would have bee perfect.
Tank, a Crusader or M-3 Grant would have been my choice.
Fighter, I would have converted to a Hawker Hurricane.
Bomber, convert to UK bomber from new mini AA game.
APC, Looks like they took a 105 Priest and dis-armed it. Kinda wierd but they did use them.
Artillery, 25 Lb Field gun excellent choice.
AA gun, perfect.
Tac Bomber, no Change.
One new unit they could have added would have been nation specific trucks used for supply and troop movements.
Plastic Factories, Airbases and Naval Bases I would have added back in. Cardboard never did cut it for me.
For the price AH is charging retail this game, these should have been in the mix.
F-22 are supersonic air superiority jet fighters, V-22 Osprey is a roto-tilt aircraft that takes off and lands like a helicopter but in flight fly like a prop driven aircraft.
Gentlemen.
The Communist Chinese have a manifesto that claims Tiawan, The Spratly Islands chain in the Phillippines and some Islands off of Vietnam. Those commies will go to war over them. The Japanese is trumping the Chinese in this by launching Destroyers named after WWII IJN Battleships that carry helicopters and several 100,000 Yen can be modified to handle fixed wing aircraft. 4 are almost fully operational. Next they will be building cruisers that are double in the size of thier new Destroyers. The new cruisers will look like full fledged fleet carriers! So Japan is preparing for a naval showdown with China and building a Blue water Navy to challange them.
China just launched its first carrier a former Soviet one that they re-commissioned, they claim it is for training only while they build a full size fleet carrier.
China will not give in to anyone else claims to any land or islands they want.
So the next hot spot THE EAST CHINA SEA OR THE SEA OF JAPAN NAMED DEPENDING ON IF YOU ARE JAPANESE OR CHINESE.
IL,
Is this guy for real or is he a troll/spammer? I am not replying to him directly on this until I get a green light from you. :evil:
V-22 Osprey is in production and the Marines and Air Force are using them in Afgahanistan, Iraq, and Other theatres. It was a problem child from the beginning and without getting too tech savy it was a venture purchased with lot of test pilot blood. Exact figures as to how many crashed and how many died in protype tests are really not released. What you find on Wiki and other sites is the PR release data for this.
Exact numbers built is still speculative at best. I currently do not know what Air Force units are flying them.
I suspect it is Special OPS out of Hurlburt Field Florida the same unit flys our C-130 gunships with 105mm Howitzers and 40 mm guns, which the Air Force denied we had in use for years. As a Airman 1st Class I landed in the Azores and there was 4 of the blasted non-exsistant gunships sitting on the ready ramp with all thier guns sticking out. In my carreer I never saw one V-22 in actual flight operations. I think there was a cover up of any additional losses since it became fully operational.
SDI I will provide an update later. I can till you this the name has changed multiple times since President Reagan and its nickname of Star Wars. It scared the crap out of the Russians and the Warsaw Pact that they feared it would knock out their ability for MAD Mutually Assured Destruction. More on this later.
IL,
31 years in Transportation and Logistics Management for the Air Force and DOD you see a lot of good and and you see a lot of bad stuff.
Here is one that can really freak you out.
Rockwell B1-B Bomber. 100 produced and furnished to the SAC in the early 90s. The idiot’s who developed them never thought about an ability to de-ice the aircraft before low level missions. It cost several aircraft and crews being killed before somone wised up and decided they needed to be de-iced. Second, B1-B bomber was supposed to have a computer that would tell supply to order parts that would fail within 24 to 48 hours so it was on the shelf when needed. Millions spent and it never was realized.
Give it to the first Hawaii Five O Magarrett and Danny, Man they earned it.
Il sorry about that. My fault.
Now for a really stupid US Army idea, Ever heard of this?
Over a period of three decades four successive generations of upgraded forward area air defense systems – from Mauler to Roland to Sgt. York to ADATS – were all canceled, at a total cost of more than $6.7 billion. The M247 Sergeant York DIVAD (Division Air Defence gun) was born of the Army’s need for a replacement for the ageing M163 20mm Vulcan A/A gun and M48 Chaparral missile systems. With the Soviet Mi-24 Hind attack helicopter being fitted with the longer range AT-6 SPIRAL Anti-tank missiles and twin barrelled 23mm cannon, and the Mi-28 Havoc nearing deployment, the M163 and M48 systems would be out-classed in a future conflict. In addition, the Soviet’s ZSU-23/4 SHILKA Quad 23mm A/A gun combined a radar with a proven gun fitted to an existing chassis resulting in a highly successful and lethal design.
The new self-propelled anti-aircraft gun system was to be based on the M48A5 tank chassis, using as much off-the-shelf equipment as possible. Two designs were submitted, one from General Dynamics using twin 35mm Oerlikon cannon (as with the West German Leopard) and the other from Ford Aerospace and Communications Corporation which utilised twin 40mm L/70 Bofors Guns. In May 1981 the Ford Aerospace entry was selected and designated M247 Sergeant York, featuring the twin 40mm guns mounted in a new box like armoured turret with both tracking and surveillance radar fitted atop, these could be folded down to reduce overall height. The gunner was provided with roof mounted sight incorporating a laser range-finder. the commander having a panoramic roof mounted periscope and fixed periscopes. The radar was a modified version of the Westinghouse APG-66 system used in the F-16 Fighting Falcon.
With the first production vehicles being delivered in late 1983 many problems remained, the most serious being the radar’s inability to track low flying targets due to excessive ground clutter. The radar could not distinguish between a hovering helicopter and a clump of trees. And when tracking high flying targets, the radar return from the gun barrel tips confused the fire control system. Turret traverse was also too slow to track a fast crossing target. The ECM (electronic counter-measures) suite could be defeated by only minor jamming. And the use of the 30 year old M48 chassis design meant the vehicle had trouble keeping pace with the newer M1 Abrams and M2/3 Bradley’s, the very vehicles it was designed to protect.
These problems proved insurmountable, and in December 1986 after about 50 vehicles had been produced the entire program was terminated.
After Congress repealed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution in January 1971, President Richard Nixon continued to wage war in Vietnam, Congress passed the War Powers Resolution (Pub.L. 93-148) over the veto of Nixon in an attempt to rein in some of the president’s claimed powers. Today, Congress recognizes no claimed power of the president to wage war outside of the War Powers Resolution. A Presidental decree does not mean we have declared war.
So does this in make Vietnam a declared war, or just a police action? Any thoughts on this?
I will respond to how I feel about the new sculpts after I recive mine on Tuesday.
WARRIOR888
The Kalin K-7! Did this thing actually get off of the ground? It looks like it would crash on take off. :?
WARRIOR888
Agree,
We have some really nice new units to game with. Still would like to see a HMS KGV for a Battleship instead of a Royal Soverign.
What do you guys think of the HE-111 as a new unit for Germany? I think it is a decent sculpt.
WARRIOR888