French Set…need help to finalize set.

I thought about using 1/72 scale soldiers for infantry pieces for Axis & Allies.  For one thing, I agree with Lunarwolf because I prefer the round base as well. The other thing that bothered me wasn’t so much the color but the poses. When you get sets with infantry in them from OOB, FMG or HBG, all the infantry are in the same pose so it’s uniform on the game board. If you get a set of 1/72 scale soldiers, there will only be 2 - 4 in each pose. You will have some guys shooting standing up, some shooting crouched, some guys throwing a grenade, some charging with a bayonet, some marching, etc. I don’t like all the guys of the same country in all those different poses. It just doesn’t look right to me.
Although, I will say that you can get a heck of a lot of variety if you do go that route. I’ve seen WW2 infantry sets from just about every nation involved in the conflict, even the minor nations, not to mention several different types from the major nations (paratroops, regular infantry, desert wear, winter gear, etc.)

I agree with Knp7765.

I don’t care for the 1/72 scale soldiers for the following reasons:

I need my A&A units to have round bases so they can have their national insignias painted on them.

I also want them all to be the correct size.

I also would prefer them to have only one “pose” so as not to be confused with any other type of unit.

I have faith that HBG and FMG will continue to produce full lines of quality new A&A units to enrich all of our gaming needs.

I hope they will produce these Winter, Jungle, Desert, and Special Forces units also. I think they would be popular sets.

“Tall Paul”

While Tall Paul makes excellent points, I will add one issue I’ve had to his list. The round infantry base fitting inside the stacking chips (for those of us that must use them) is key to keeping the infantry from falling off at the slightest breeze.

Gents, I  personally use AirAFix, HO scale  and Hasegawa and Italeri and Escai 1/72nd troops.  If you have a problem with them falling over, just glue them to colored mini poker chips it works well.  I own about every type of WWII troop you can imagine.  From, Paras, SS, Marines, Red Guards, German and Italian Apline, French Foreign Legion, USSR Partisans, Rangers, Regular Army, Afrika Korps, 8th Army, Chinese, ANZAC, Commandos and US Airborne and so on.  Many are hand painted in authentic WWII uniform colors for their respective nations.  So more AA figures are great, but for me they are not required.
Coach,  French Foreign Legion in their Kepis are totally cool with a sub-machine gun.  Suggestion, maybe you will look at producing them for your French set.

WARRIOR888

In particular, the French battleships and bombers that come with Europe 1940 are too obviously Russian.

If you were going to play with Vichy French/Free French, I would just use German units (Japanese in the Pacific, if there are any) for Vichy French units. I would use the remaining French units as Free French, but they are under Britain’s control until France is liberated. Similarly, with Italy, once Rome fell to the Allies, you could replace the units that remained pro-fascist with German units (Japanese in the Pacific, if there are any) and switch the remaining Italian units to the Allies.

I plan to use Pro-Axis units (Grey Germans from previous releases) for Vichy.

And they were only 5 cents a piece on your website!  :-D

Any plans for an SPG?

The Somua SAu 40 would suffice, thought it may look a bit identical to the SAU 35.

Here’s my 2 cents on Vichy France Color: it should be a Darker Blue than the OOB color. Germany Black, Italy Brown, It shows France “coming to the darkside”

Hmm,

A Darker Blue color to represent “Free French” troops set on revenge. An interesting idea.

“Tall Paul”

@Yavid:

Here’s my 2 cents on Vichy France Color: it should be a Darker Blue than the OOB color. Germany Black, Italy Brown, It shows France “coming to the darkside”

That’s one of the reasons why I use as Vichy pieces the dark blue standard infantry sculpts from The War Game: World War II (http://www.boardgamegeek.com/image/268592/the-war-game-world-war-ii?size=large).  The additional attraction is that the German-style uniform design establishes an extra connection between Vichy France and Germany.

I prefer light blue for Vichy and OOB for pre- defeat French.

Dark Blue for Free French

For those that do… why do you distinguish between Free French and “pre-defeat” French? Couldn’t you use the same color for both of these?

i agree why would you need a new color for free french when you should just keep them the default french color, or at least use the default color for one of them. my group we dont even need to have any difference in color since Vichy doesn’t move we just use the Vichy token on territories to represent Vichy units

Shouldn’t the french set be white?

I think dark blue would be sufficient.

I compelety agree. I don’t see a need nor do I want a different color for pre-defeat france, free france, and vichy france. Two colors will do fine (waves hand in a “these are not the drods your looking for” kind of way)

LOL, I play Hearts of Iron a lot and they represent Vichy as a Dark Blue-Dark Purple ish color.

you know the more i think about it. the more i like the idea of a dark purpleish/ dark blue color for vichy france. I worry about the oob blue being to close to the vichy blue. I see france and vichy france as Allied France (oob colors) and Axis France (called Vichy for most conversation but it’s basically just that France in the Axis powers) and I want the colors far enough apart not to cause confussion. So a dark purple sounds really good. No one else is purple or close to it.