In ANZAC defense, most of there ships during the start of WWII were hand me downs of WWI era UK and US ships sold or given to them.
@Caesar:
In ANZAC defense, most of there ships during the start of WWII were hand me downs of WWI era UK and US ships sold or given to them.
And on a related point, the WotC folks who chose the models and classes of equipment (land, air and sea) to assign to ANZAC in Pacific 1940.2 were unavoidably hampered by the fact that Australia and New Zealand didn’t produce domestically the full range of units required by the game. Much of ANZAC’s equipment in the game is actually foreign in origin – like the Bofors 40mm AAA auto-cannon, which is of Swedish manufacture. (It was used by many Allied nations, so its use by ANZAC is perfectly credible. The version I’m most familiar with is the naval version, which was carried by many US battleships and cruisers. I once got the opportunity to operate one – without the ammunition, of course – at a naval museum.)
Unfortunately, some nations (mostly allies) rely on version of units they couldn’t have access to or they go at great lengths to give it under POSSIBLE. Example is how ANZAC, France, and USSR use UK aircraft carriers even though these factions had no will to build carriers, most of them couldn’t afford it. OR how ANZAC uses the AC1 Sentinel even though all of there tanks were UK or Lend Lease US and they never once deployed the AC1.
Yes, it’s unfortunate that some A&A powers have foreign equipment sculpts for which domestic equivalents did genuinely exist in WWII, especially if those powers never used foreign counterparts alongside their own domestic products. The situation has been getting better over the years, as more and more domestic sculpts have been introduced, but there are still gaps (France being the biggest gap of all, the only power whose non-infantry sculpts are 100% foreign).
It’s clear whoever made that call for France did it for two reasons; to save money the obviously one. Two, France for the most part is the most useless nation so how offend do you get a chance to deploy them in great numbers.
@Caesar:
Unfortunately, some nations (mostly allies) rely on version of units they couldn’t have access to or they go at great lengths to give it under POSSIBLE. Example is how ANZAC, France, and USSR use UK aircraft carriers even though these factions had no will to build carriers, most of them couldn’t afford it. OR how ANZAC uses the AC1 Sentinel even though all of there tanks were UK or Lend Lease US and they never once deployed the AC1.
Well, the new ANZAC carrier is the Majestic class, and Australia did in fact operate two of them, though it was after the war.
Well the Majestic is a Collosus carrier on crack which originate from UK.
A unique destroyer and fighter sculpt for France would be nice since those are typically the only two units that survive after the first turn besides infantry. What I don’t get is why they used USSR sculpts as a base. In the event France is liberated and becomes relevant late-game, it’s perfectly logical they’d use UK and US equipment.
A unique destroyer and fighter sculpt for France would be nice since those are typically the only two units that survive after the first turn besides infantry. What I don’t get is why they used USSR sculpts as a base. In the event France is liberated and becomes relevant late-game, it’s perfectly logical they’d use UK and US equipment.
I think USSR was specifically used because of how most of the time, USSR is just going to produce cheaper units due to them being unable to launch invasions until late game. It is clear they wanted to save money by being cheap with France.
What I don’t get is why they used USSR sculpts as a base.
The four- five- and six-player Global 1940 dispositions for Global 1940 all assign the USSR and France to the same player, so that’s probably the reason: as a visual reflection of those pairings, illogical though it may be from a real-world equipment viewpoint.
That’s another thing, how much fun can it be playing as two countries that get squashed and cornered/squashed by Germany? I would pair France with UK since the latter goes last among the Big Three Allies.
Plus it doesn’t make sense to pair France with USSR under one player. If you want to get close, it should be US, ANZAC, France, and UK under one player. The big four and USSR with China. China in this case at this time was anti Communist but we know what will happen after the war.
It’s the same reason why China doesn’t have its own fighter or artillery. They were just being cheap which is why I bought five artillery and the old p40 from the original AnA and painted them Chinese Green.
