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@Variable:

These are some cool ideas! I did consider the Operation Olympic idea before, but just haven’t had time for an undertaking like that yet. The alternate history Cold War scenario sounds very interesting to me. Too many ideas, too little time!  :-D

I was thinking about the Operation Olympic game idea earlier and I remember reading that Russia had similar plans to invade the northern most island. So the game would have 3 players and kind of an Amerika feel to it. With Japan playing the part of USA in the game.

Back in 1993 after I bought my first copy of Axis and Allies I opened it up and thought how cool would it be if the tanks, planes, est. looked like how they really did instead of generic pieces. I want to thank WotC and Larry for making that happen.

In 1999 when I got Axis and Allies: Europe I thought how much better it would have been if instead of stukas germany got bf-109s. I want to thank WotC and Larry for making that happen. I also thought how much better if Russia and UK got it’s own artillery and ships. again thank WotC and Larry for making it happen.

From 1993 till Axis and Allies was bought by WotC there was alot of expansions that could be bought for the game. I got cardboard Tigers, trucks, P-51s, Marines, Paratroops, artillery, destroyers, cruisers, destroyer escorts. With every expansion and every cardboard game piece I thought to myself damn I wish I got little plastic pieces for this things. I would like to thank WotC, Larry and HBG for making that happen.

In 1996 I got the Table Tactics expansion Central Powers. And dreamed of a day there was a real Axis and Allies World War I game. Thank you Larry for making it happen.

Lastly thanks for all the fond memories of playing this game.

Oh and lastly I have always wanted a Kaytusha piece. Thank you HBG for making that one and every other one you made happen not just for me but for everyone else who had some piece of WW2 equipment they wanted to see as a Axis and Allies piece.

Keep up the good work.

@Yavid:

Keep up the good work.

I echo this sentiment.  As someone who remembers the lean early years in which just about the only way to expand the OOB sculpts was to buy the multi-coloured clones from Xeno Games, I agree that the contrast between then and now could not be more dramatic.  Not only have the OOB pieces themselves made great leaps forward (more nations; colour diversification and standardization; more unit types; unit type variant sculpts in A&A 1941; a WWI game), but we also have more supplementary pieces on the market, most notably from HBG’s ever-expanding range.  Definitely one of those cases in which the “good old days” are really just the “old days”, with the “good” part being in the present rather than in the past.

Oh god I forgot about Xeno games pieces they made the classic pieces look good.

Gents,

You both got that right! I have scores of the old Xeno pieces still named after actual ships!  I am slowly repainting them and giving them all to minor or nations yet to be fielded on an AA game board.
Nations like, Chile, Argentina, India, Turkey, South Africa, Norway, Denmark, Portugal and anything else I can think of.
I Believe with the recent success of HGB’s Amerika on Kickstarter we will see many more unique nation units in the future.
The day for the old classic AA, Xeno, Skytrex, Heroics and Ross have seen their day in my book and GHQ you can just forget about them, they are making buying their units an extreme challenge.  Kudos to Coach and FMG for giving us something other than just generic game units on a board. 
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I was checking out HBG.com and they put up 9 more expansions to be voted on.

Yes, Tall Paul told me about it. This is getting me really excited. There is something for everyone in these sets. :-D

These are new ones, Some of them are more sci-fi based. Like Patton driving into Russia, or Spain joining the war. There’s 25 on the site to be voted on.

@Yavid:

These are new ones, Some of them are more sci-fi based. Like Patton driving into Russia, or Spain joining the war. There’s 25 on the site to be voted on.

Yes, I noticed the Patton one as a, “What if?” scenario, just like Spain. I will get most of these, and there is some that I will buy more of, than others. The zombie be one is still up in the air for me, LOL. :-D

@John:

@Yavid:

These are new ones, Some of them are more sci-fi based. Like Patton driving into Russia, or Spain joining the war. There’s 25 on the site to be voted on.

Yes, I noticed the Patton one as a, “What if?” scenario, just like Spain. I will get most of these, and there is some that I will buy more of, than others. The zombie be one is still up in the air for me, LOL. :-D

I won’t be buying all of the what if scenarios and will not buy the zombie one well unless there’s something else in the game that makes me want it but zombies are a negative not a positive for an A&A set for me. The big thing for me personal is there anything in the set I can use in a WW2 game.

@Yavid:

@John:

@Yavid:

These are new ones, Some of them are more sci-fi based. Like Patton driving into Russia, or Spain joining the war. There’s 25 on the site to be voted on.

Yes, I noticed the Patton one as a, “What if?” scenario, just like Spain. I will get most of these, and there is some that I will buy more of, than others. The zombie be one is still up in the air for me, LOL. :-D

I won’t be buying all of the what if scenarios and will not buy the zombie one well unless there’s something else in the game that makes me want it but zombies are a negative not a positive for an A&A set for me. The big thing for me personal is there anything in the set I can use in a WW2 game.

Oh, I agree with you totally. I’m wanting, mainly, world war 2 sets myself. It would have to be something really special to entice me to buy the zombie apocalypse, but each person has different tastes.

Yavid, I got to thinking, some of these sets will be apart of the 1936 map, so the Spain set will workout well because the country was torn in two before WW2, and the new map coming out at the end of the year has 3 starting points. The map will have a 1936, 1939 and 1942 setup, so it is not out of the question that Spain will work on the 1936 setup because of their civil war and with political situations that can be added to the game, especially with the diplomacy set and rules, it could get interesting. If your just into world war 2 era, the 1942 setup is what you would start with.

This maybe why, HBG is making these different sets because of the different set ups, you can start with, and I bet that they will have a post WW2 setup later, where the US will go to war with Russia, after the defeat of Germany and Japan. If you noticed on HBG’s site, the sets start at 1936 to 1946 post WW2, for future expansions.

The zombie set was just probably thrown in for something different. That is just my guess, LOL. It is all good, I guess. :-D

John

@John:

Yavid, I got to thinking, some of these sets will be apart of the 1936 map, so the Spain set will workout well because the country was torn in two before WW2, and the new map coming out at the end of the year has 3 starting points. The map will have a 1936, 1939 and 1942 setup, so it is not out of the question that Spain will work on the 1936 setup because of their civil war and with political situations that can be added to the game, especially with the diplomacy set and rules, it could get interesting. If your just into world war 2 era, the 1942 setup is what you would start with.

This maybe why, HBG is making these different sets because of the different set ups, you can start with, and I bet that they will have a post WW2 setup later, where the US will go to war with Russia, after the defeat of Germany and Japan. If you noticed on HBG’s site, the sets start at 1936 to 1946 post WW2, for future expansions.

The zombie set was just probably thrown in for something different. That is just my guess, LOL. It is all good, I guess. :-D

John

Yeah I kind of like the Spanish Civil War stuff. I’m really interested in that map/game. The thing with me is WW1-WW2 stuff so even a Russia invades Poland in the 20s would have my interest. The Patton’s Charge East (it’s the after the war is over and USA goes to war with USSR set) well they would be using pieces that had the war lasted another year or two (longer game than normal) than that equipment would be used so I’m interested. Zombies would need something really special. I personally hate zombie movies.

I do think they should do an Air War expansion really dive into SBR and Air Superiority. Stuff like B-24s, P-47s, Me-163s (I mention stuff HBG or WotC hasn’t made yet) I know IL said something about a full game on the subject but nothing came of it that I know of.

I’m hoping Pacific War fixes the “problem” that there’s no reason to fight for 0 IPC islands so Japan doesn’t take them and the famous American island hopping never happens. WW2 the 2 battles that decided the Pacific War was over 0 IPC island (Midway and Solomons) in Axis and Allies it’s about Hawaii and Truk (I’m forgetting the islands name right now) and only Truk because of the Naval Base.

I guess it’s what I’m really hoping for from the expansions. And I’ll get off my soap box and stop ranting.

I didn’t think you were ranting. We are both hoping these sets will be something we can use in our games. I’m just excited that that HBG is adding more to their games. I’m also just curious what others think of these sets and what ones they are interested in. So if your guilty of ranting, then I’m certainly guilty. I think we are just passionate about what we want in our games, at least I am, anyways.

Something occurred to me last night and I’ve very curious to know. But I hope these new sets as awesome as they look like they are going to be doesn’t mean they stop doing the individual nation sets. And I would like for them to do sets in WW2 sets in WW1 nations colors and vice verse.

@Yavid:

Something occurred to me last night and I’ve very curious to know. But I hope these new sets as awesome as they look like they are going to be doesn’t mean they stop doing the individual nation sets. And I would like for them to do sets in WW2 sets in WW1 nations colors and vice verse.Â

Man, I would hope not, because I still need the Russian sets because I missed out on those. I would hope Doug and the gang would still do them. I guess we can always let Doug know, we still want new models for each country in a variety of different colors. I don’t know if he will mix the world war 1 and 2 colors, but we can always ask him. I’ve talked to him several times on the phone, and he is really cool about answering your questions. He is always about customer satisfaction. I guess we shall see about the continuation of country sets.

@John:

@Yavid:

Something occurred to me last night and I’ve very curious to know. But I hope these new sets as awesome as they look like they are going to be doesn’t mean they stop doing the individual nation sets. And I would like for them to do sets in WW2 sets in WW1 nations colors and vice verse.�

Man, I would hope not, because I still need the Russian sets because I missed out on those. I would hope Doug and the gang would still do them. I guess we can always let Doug know, we still want new models for each country in a variety of different colors. I don’t know if he will mix the world war 1 and 2 colors, but we can always ask him. I’ve talked to him several times on the phone, and he is really cool about answering your questions. He is always about customer satisfaction. I guess we shall see about the continuation of country sets.

OMG they are awesome at answering questions, normally. Since the holidays they’ve been a bit of AWOL but who doesn’t go AWOL every once in a while? I’ve asked him about mixing colors and he didn’t answer but it was on the forums. I still need a bunch of the sets. I’m going to be placing a big order when the Russian set gets restocked. He did say it would be mid-February.

Ok, February, great because that is the one group, I’m needing. The United Kingdom Set should be soon, along with the Japanese basic set. I don’t know if you know this, but Doug is doing an early WW2 French Set as well. Look under the design stage on his website.

Yeah I know I’m very curious to know what’s after the French set. I know there’s a 3rd Japanese set they are working on and based on the names of the sets there’s another Russian set they are going to do but after that I have no idea.

@Yavid:

Yeah I know I’m very curious to know what’s after the French set. I know there’s a 3rd Japanese set they are working on and based on the names of the sets there’s another Russian set they are going to do but after that I have no idea.

There is another Russian and Japanese set, that they are going to do?

I didn’t know that.

When was that announced?

I missed that, somehow.