Re: Field Marshal Games Pieces Project Discussion thread

Freakin’ BEAUTIFUL!!!

The Avenger is sweet!

FMG, I see a lot of destroyed Axis aircraft, tanks and ships in the future on AA game boards with your new USA aircraft.  IJN look out here comes the USN Avenger torpedo bombers.  Your detail is superb.  Cheers

@FieldMarshalGames:

…more to come soon…

I love your pictures, but i bought italian units and anzac and french dice in November 2010… today we are near to August… any news or i can think that my bucks are lost? Sorry for impatience, but 9 months are enough to be a little tired.

@Stefano1189:

@FieldMarshalGames:

…more to come soon…

I love your pictures, but i bought italian units and anzac and french dice in November 2010… today we are near to August… any news or i can think that my bucks are lost? Sorry for impatience, but 9 months are enough to be a little tired.

It seems I was WAY to optimistic and excited about these products.  They have taken much longer and cost much more than expected.  In future, I will just surprise everyone instead of giving any “release estimates”

My apologies.

Since No one else will say it……

So we are looking at 2020 before all countries are complete?

Sorry, had to be said.

@FieldMarshalGames:

@knp7765:

@Mr_Red_X:

is there a plan for additional chinese pieces? like chinese artillery and the like? that would be great, just something in that pale green to use.

I believe FMG has plans for making Chinese units, but they will be a little while yet.  Also, they are planning a “commons” set which will include Industrial Complexes (major and minor), Air Bases, Naval Bases, AA Guns, Bunkers, etc.  Not so sure about hospitals.  Here is the latest order of national pieces to be put out by FMG (Jeremy correct me if I’m wrong):
Italy
Germany
United States
United Kingdom
ANZAC
Soviet Union
France
Japan
Commons Set
China & Neutrals (possibly)
ALso, HBG is also planning on making some Chinese Units but I’m not sure when.  At present, the listing for HBG’s sets are:
Axis Minors
US Marines
US Supplemlement set (alternate planes, alternate battleship class, escort carriers, light tanks, tank destroyers, etc. – basically stuff that isn’t in the OOB or FMG US sets)
Dutch, Polish and Neutrals
After this I’m not sure what coachofmany plans to make.  I know there are plans for a further German supplement set and he has taken polls for Nationalist Chinese and Communist Chinese sets, but I don’t think anything is set in stone yet.

HBG and FMG have made a gentlemens agreement to divide up some of the sets.  So we do not overlap and have to compete with each other.  We will carry eachothers product on the various sites also.

FMG will be doing:
Italy
Germany (Two sets, Grey / Black)
United States
United Kingdom
ANZAC
CANADA
Japan
Soviet Union
France

Commons Set (Bases etc)

HBG has told me they are interested in doing the Neutrals and China, so I am happy to tell you these will be available in the future.  HBG is also licensed to sell COMBAT UNITS individually, as they currently do with OOB sets.

no it dident even though wh havent recived anything yet, the sculpts are rollin on in. were at usa. so well be on….(whichever is next.)

FMG they are awesome I can’t wait to order them. Can’t wait to see the USA infantry sculpts.

@Stefano1189:

I love your pictures, but i bought italian units and anzac and french dice in November 2010… today we are near to August… any news or i can think that my bucks are lost? Sorry for impatience, but 9 months are enough to be a little tired.

Yeah, I made the same pre-order that you did and am anxiously awaiting my new combat units and combat dice.  You just have to be patient a little longer.  Jeremy said that the factory told him production would be finished roughly end of the month.  When you take in the time to ship from China to FMG, then from FMG to all of us, count approximately another two weeks or so.  With any luck, we should all be very happy about mid-August.

Also, that comment "i can think that my bucks are lost?" is downright insulting.  Even if this project totally fell through, do you really think that FMG would simply keep our money?  Don’t you think that FMG would refund us on our orders?  FMG is an honorable company with excellent customer service.  What’s more, all the delays and failed deadlines are solely the fault of the Chinese factory they have to deal with.  The factory tells Jeremy one thing, then Jeremy clues us all in and when it doesn’t happen, everyone want’s to yell at Jeremy and FMG.  We all just need to chill out.  We all knew going into this that the Italians were going to be the hardest set because it was all new, to FMG, the sculptor, and the factory.  Just try to think about when the Italians are done.  Next will be the Germans which are already moving much faster.  After that the Americans.  The sets will start coming out like clockwork.

Well said, knp!  I’m busy planning my next gigantic A&A project in anticipation of the new arrivals.  FMG & HBG have started something we’ve all wanted for YEARS!!!  I’ve waited this long - just a few more weeks and we start seeing these pieces coming in…considering all the challenges, etc the quality is amazing.  WOTC should be outsourcing product development to FMG & HBG and maybe bring in their manufacturers and REALLY move some product!  :-D

You know, I am kind of surprised that WOTC didn’t come out with pieces with the same level of detail and accuracy.  I remember when I first got my copies of Revised, Europe, Pacific and D-Day in Summer 2006 (yeah, I was a little behind the times).  I was so excited to see these tiny pieces that actually represented the equipment used by the different countries in WW2 rather than the simple generic pieces we got from Milton Bradley.  Back then, I didn’t so much notice the lack of detail (compared to FMG’s and HBG’s pieces) but I was a little bummed out that only the Axis powers had all unique equipment.  The Allies all used the same artillery, transport, destroyer and submarine classes, which were actually USA classes.  Plus, poor Russia didn’t have ANY ships of their own because their battleships and carriers were British models.  At least with the 1942 game, Russia finally got their own BB, CA and DD.
Of course, then came games with Italy and they have the Italians using all German equipment, with Japanese bombers and artillery in the Anniversary game.
I just wonder what process WOTC went through in designing the game pieces.  Did they go through the same process as FMG?  First sculpt the pieces, make any corrections, pre-production molds and then into final production molds?  Or do you think they had some kind of simpler process? 
Obviously, when they made Italy, they just used existing Axis molds and changed the color.  Couldn’t they get their original sculptor back to design real Italian units?  If not, how were they able to design the new Russian ships for the 1942 game?  It came out after Anniversary, didn’t it?  I just don’t understand how they could design such a great game with the Anniversary edition yet go all “slap-dash” on the pieces like they did.  As far as Italy is concerned, they still didn’t do well with Europe 1940, or France for that matter.  They couldn’t research French equipment either?
Anybody out there have any ideas as to why WOTC did things this way?

Because it was more cost effective I imagine… as in, saved them money.

wotc chimps >:(  :P

Like it or not the point of a major corporation like WOTC is to make oodles of money for thier executives and, to a lesser extent, their shareholders.  They do this by putting the bear minimum of money necessary into a product that will generate sales.  We should all thank our lucky stars that true fans like HBG and FMG are undertaking this enormous process.

I’m waiting to see what the Japanese get.  It seems that it’s hard to find Japanese pieces lout there.

what russian units are going to be chosen eh? so many its hard to chose, but i think a KV-1, or a kv-2. maby kv-1 and hbg does kv-2 as a special armor?

More USA Sculpts

First Infantry Sculpt

Fan-fricking-tastic!  Love that bomber - and the infantry has wonderful detail!  :mrgreen:

FMG, is the US Bomber sculpt a B-24 Liberator Heavy Bomber?  If it is that is totally awesome. :-D :-D