Thanks for the help and thank you!
Two Questions
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Hi to anyone reading this.
Am new to Axis & Allies, but love 1941, which I have now played 8 or 9 times. If you can help with the 2 questions below I would be grateful. I will do a separate post on the strategy for the game and hope you will feel motivated to respond to that too.
1. Can you buy additional 1941 miniatures? As past posts from others have highlighted the number supplied in the game is rather limiting.
2. Given that I am enjoying 1941 so much, any recommendations as to the next in the A&A series to go for?
Best wishes
Adam
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Welcome aboard, Private Panic!
Additional 1941 sculpts can be purchased from HBG…
http://www.historicalboardgaming.com/Axis-Allies-1941-2012_c_196.html
…or by simply buying a second copy of the whole game, which is relatively inexpensive.
For earlier discussions of which-game-to-buy recommendations, have a look at these threads:
http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?topic=32521.0
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Thanks very much CWO Marc. Â Very helpful indeed. Â :-)
I have looked at the sculpts website and think buying a second game might be best, as you suggest.
Also followed the threads re the next A&A game to go for. Â It seems that 1942 might be next as axis-role points out that Global 1940 can take 7-12 hours to play. Â How long can 1942 take to play? Â Then I can consult with the group.
Sounds like I might end up with the whole suite if the group stay with me that far.
Cheers
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Hi and welcome Private Panic.
You could still be playing 1942 after 6 hours, but it is not as complex, rule wise, as 1940. You will probably also have an idea of which side will win by then too. You should move up to 1942, in my opinion. -
Thanks wittman. Much appreciated.
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I concur with Wittmann: the logical step upward from A&A 1941 is A&A 1942. If you then decide to move beyond A&A 1942, you could try Pacific 1940 on its own, then Europe 1940 on its own (it involves more powers than Pacific 1940, so it’s a slightly more complex game), then graduate to Global 1940, which is the game produced by combining Pacific 1940 and Europe 1940.
A&A WWI 1914 is another game you might want to explore, but it doesn’t really fit into the progressive sequence I described above for the WWII games – it’s a separate branch of the A&A family.
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Thanks yet again CWO Marc. Makes perfect sense. Will discuss with my group.
Just worked out what CWO stands for! You deserve a promotion! :-)
Cheers
PP -
@Private:
Just worked out what CWO stands for! You deserve a promotion!
Thanks. Actually I’m a civilian (though with a longstanding interest in naval history), and the Chief Warrant Officer part of my forum name is just an invention for online purposes, so I’m quite happy to keep that designation in perpetuity.
By the way, in terms of your long-term gaming plans, keep in mind that it you ever acquire the full range of A&A games (an ambition which that many forum members here will endorse enthusiastically, since they’ve done the same thing themselves) and you then wonder “Where do I go from here?” after mastering them, there’s unlimited potential in exploring house rules and other ways of introducing some variety into the official games. There’s a whole section of the forum dedicated to house rules, including ways of using the large range of new unit sculpts sold by Historical Board Gaming:
http://www.historicalboardgaming.com/Battle-Pieces-Sets-By-Country_c_14.html
And of course there’s always the hope that Larry Harris will produce new A&A games in the future, or at least new editions of the current ones. But even without any future new games, house rules (your own or those of other forum members) allow players to get a lot of additional mileage out of the existing A&A line.
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As an invented Private I can only defer abjectly to an invented CWO. Perhaps I will make Corporal one day?
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If you change branches (and allegiance), I would have you as loader, with the rank of Rottenfuhrer, in my Tiger.
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Thank you! I think!? What’s your rank then Herr Wittmann?
I should have called myself Riechsführer-SS Panik. A lesson learned!
Cheers
Abject PP -
Michael Wittmann died a Hauptsturmfuhrer, leading the 2nd Company in Von Westernhagen’s 101SS Panzer Battalion
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In that case, Herr Hauptsturmfuhrer, I would be honoured to serve as your Rottenfuhrer.
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@CWO:
@Private:
Just worked out what CWO stands for! You deserve a promotion!
Thanks. Actually I’m a civilian (though with a longstanding interest in naval history), and the Chief Warrant Officer part of my forum name is just an invention for online purposes, so I’m quite happy to keep that designation in perpetuity.
By the way, in terms of your long-term gaming plans, keep in mind that it you ever acquire the full range of A&A games (an ambition which that many forum members here will endorse enthusiastically, since they’ve done the same thing themselves) and you then wonder “Where do I go from here?” after mastering them, there’s unlimited potential in exploring house rules and other ways of introducing some variety into the official games. There’s a whole section of the forum dedicated to house rules, including ways of using the large range of new unit sculpts sold by Historical Board Gaming:
http://www.historicalboardgaming.com/Battle-Pieces-Sets-By-Country_c_14.html
And of course there’s always the hope that Larry Harris will produce new A&A games in the future, or at least new editions of the current ones. But even without any future new games, house rules (your own or those of other forum members) allow players to get a lot of additional mileage out of the existing A&A line.
Well Said CWO ! :wink:
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@Private:
In that case, Herr Hauptsturmfuhrer, I would be honoured to serve as your Rottenfuhrer.
The Tommies await us at Villers Bocage.
(I had a beer there in a cafe’, on the main thoroughfare, dreaming of that 13th June day.)
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