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John Brown

Hey guys! I wanted to show you some pictures of HBG 3D printed units, and the quality of them.

These are high quality, and you can paint them, but if you don’t paint them, they give you options to choose colors, on most of these pieces.

If you haven’t bought any, they are really cool.

Some of the sets comes with markers, some come with units, but they all come with free rules that you can add to your game.

You can use them in Global 1936, 1939 and Global 1940.

If you don’t won’t to use the rules, you don’t have to use them. Use your own house rules.

I took a few pictures of all the pieces I have purchased. The only ones not on here are my German Me-323 Transport Planes and German Do-X Seaplanes.

These will be under my thread, “John Brown’s Completed Painted German Forces.”

I hope you all enjoy these pictures, and go look at Historical Board Gaming’s, now, 22 3D printed sets. :-D

John Brown

Here are the British Habakukk carriers. There are short and long ones. There is the German H-44 Super Battleships, one of my favorites, and the 1047 Dutch Battle cruisers. Awesome stuff! :-D

John Brown

Here is a picture with OOB pieces next to the 3D printed ships, to kind of give you an idea what they look like, next to each other. :-D

John Brown

Here are the US B-29 bombers that came with bombs. This is came from the Nuclear Set.

The rest of these are French, Italian, Romanian and Dutch sea planes. :-D

John Brown

The next picture also has OOB German pieces next to 2 kinds of WW1 French tanks, as well as the WW1 German tank and German Thor launchers with long barrels as well as short barrels. If you notice, I put an HBG Tiger Tank and OOB Panther Tank to show you the size these are.

These are really cool! :-D

John Brown

These 2 pictures are the Russian Flying Submarines.

I can’t wait to paint these puppies. HBG is coming out with some cool stuff. :-D

John Brown

This next picture has the Mistel Guided Bombs, Me-163 Komets and the Triebflugal Bomber Interceptors. Some really advanced and powerful weapons. :-D

John Brown

The last pictures are the V-1 and V-2 rockets, I hope this helps in all your purchase decisions. :-D

John

HBG

Glad you like them

John Brown

@coachofmany:

Glad you like them

Thanks Coach, and they will look awesome on your amazing new map you are making! Can’t wait. :-)

PS I had to edit some of these posts, because I put OOB as well as regular HBG pieces for size comparison.

LHoffman

Great pics John. These really do help give a better impression of them.

John Brown

@LHoffman:

Great pics John. These really do help give a better impression of them.

Thanks, that was the goal of mine, to give a better look at them, so that everyone can decide what they want to purchase. :-)

toblerone77

Any progress on the US pre-order?

HBG

@toblerone77:

Any progress on the US pre-order?

No, trying to get the Amerika pieces done.

CWO Marc

I have a question about this item from HBG Newsletter #38 (July 2015), which arrived in my mailbox this morning:

“The boxed game we’ve been working on is finally coming together! Plastic is in from China (round 2) and we are quality checking and assembling games over the next month. These will soon be going out to the great Kickstarter backers that have endured a long journey beside us to finish this up. Once all of our backers’ items have been shipped, we can focus on getting this game to more of you. Here are a few pics from the QC process. That’s a lot of grey plastic!”

All the pieces shown in the pictures are indeed grey. Is this because we’re only seeing German units? The HBG page for the Amerika game shows the German pieces are planned to be grey but the American pieces are planned to be green and the Japanese pieces are planned to be orange.

HBG

@CWO:

I have a question about this item from HBG Newsletter #38 (July 2015), which arrived in my mailbox this morning:

“The boxed game we’ve been working on is finally coming together! Plastic is in from China (round 2) and we are quality checking and assembling games over the next month. These will soon be going out to the great Kickstarter backers that have endured a long journey beside us to finish this up. Once all of our backers’ items have been shipped, we can focus on getting this game to more of you. Here are a few pics from the QC process. That’s a lot of grey plastic!”

All the pieces shown in the pictures are indeed grey. Is this because we’re only seeing German units? The HBG page for the Amerika game shows the German pieces are planned to be grey but the American pieces are planned to be green and the Japanese pieces are planned to be orange.

Correct:

Germany: Grey
Allies: Green
Japanese: Pumpkin Orange

CWO Marc

Thanks Coach – much appreciated.

HBG

Since Wizards of the Coast is not supplying prizes this year at Gencon, Greg asked if we could step it up on prizes so we sent a boat load of prizes plus one “Amerika” game. I told Greg that the game is the box, board, rules, etc but NO playing pieces. We will send the winner the pieces after our Kickstarter backers have received theirs but we wanted to take care of the AAA community and help Greg out. I am sure it does not hurt to advertise “Amerika” as a prize at Gencon since since we started the project our costs have nearly doubled. Thanks for all the support you have given HBG over the years.
Doug

knp7765

@CWO:

I have a question about this item from HBG Newsletter #38 (July 2015), which arrived in my mailbox this morning:

“The boxed game we’ve been working on is finally coming together! Plastic is in from China (round 2) and we are quality checking and assembling games over the next month. These will soon be going out to the great Kickstarter backers that have endured a long journey beside us to finish this up. Once all of our backers’ items have been shipped, we can focus on getting this game to more of you. Here are a few pics from the QC process. That’s a lot of grey plastic!”

All the pieces shown in the pictures are indeed grey. Is this because we’re only seeing German units? The HBG page for the Amerika game shows the German pieces are planned to be grey but the American pieces are planned to be green and the Japanese pieces are planned to be orange.

In one of the Kickstarter updates they said that they were doing the German pieces first because they were the largest set.
For the game itself, each faction (Allies, Germany, Japan) has 8 different unique sculpts to QC and package up for the games. The Allies have a slightly higher quantity of pieces, 80 as opposed to 60 each for the Axis powers, but I don’t know if that would really make much difference in QC and package time.
It’s the expansion pieces where you really see the difference. HBG has authorized 20 different sculpts as expansion pieces, of which Germany gets 9, Japan gets 6 and Allies get 5.
So, all totaled the Germans will have 17 unique sculpts to check, Japan will have 14 and the Allies will have 13.

Each game will have 200 total units. Each expansion set will have 100 total units. I believe Doug told me that the plastic order was enough to fill 750 games so even without expansion pieces that is a total of 150,000 pieces to QC and bag. If yo0 add just 1 expansion set per game, that brings it up to 225,000 pieces. Man, having to count and look over that many little plastic pieces could make you stir crazy.

By the way, for those of you not fully familiar with the game, the expansion pieces I mentioned are for later on when you have played the basic game a few times and want to add something new. Most of them are technological advancements that could give an edge to the Allied or Axis players. Some have potential to be added to Global games as well.
Actually, I guess you could add the expansion pieces right away if you wanted. Personally, I want to try out the basic game itself a few times to get familiar with the rules and unit characteristics before adding new pieces. I think HBG will be providing rules for the expansion pieces either with the games or as a download from the HBG site.

LHoffman

Any updates on the US/UK/German sets? Been a while and I haven’t seen any news on their status. At this point I am going to have to go back through my emails to remember what I have ordered.

Like anyone else, I am happy to see work on the one-off novelty pieces like Axis/Ally superweapons, but it seems like the focus is all on these (and other small games) right now and not on continuing the A&A Expansion/Supplemental sets.

Those are the real bread and butter of HBG for me and what gets me far more excited than anything else.

Here’s hoping…

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