6 second unboxing video posted

@Flashman:

Isn’t Turquoise also a shade of green?

I think it’s halfway between blue and green, so arguably we have either four shades of green (five if you count the German grey-green) or two shades of blue.

From the picture of the British sculpts, it looks as though the naval transport is an ocean liner – a good choice for a troop-transport ship, but not a good choice for a cargo vessel.

The tank (best seen in the French sculpt pack) would seem to be a British heavy tank (possibly a Mark IV, the most produced model as I recall) of the “male” type (which was armed with two sponson-mounted 6-pounder guns, one on each side).

All this talk of the sculpt colors makes me sick.  I want more rulebook previews and a map preview.  As long as I can tell the difference between the various armies, I could care less if they are hot pink or polka dotted.

@BJCard:

All this talk of the sculpt colors makes me sick.  I want more rulebook previews and a map preview.  As long as I can tell the difference between the various armies, I could care less if they are hot pink or polka dotted.

Best quote I’ve seen in this tread, and I 100% agree LOL. I could give a rats a$$ of what helmet the French have etc….I’ll be able to tell the difference between each power w/o looking twice (even you color blind ppl have a chance because most colors are very bright). Plus all these new colors are going to work well as upgraded or minor powers in other games.

@CWO:

From the picture of the British sculpts, it looks as though the naval transport is an ocean liner – a good choice for a troop-transport ship, but not a good choice for a cargo vessel.

I think an ocean liner is perfect. They were used for many purposes during the war, even carrying butter and cheese to the Royal Navy’s Weapons Testing Establishment at Shoeburyness, Essex.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Lusitania#What_war_munitions_was_she_actually_carrying.3F

@wove100:

I think an ocean liner is perfect. They were used for many purposes during the war, even carrying butter and cheese to the Royal Navy’s Weapons Testing Establishment at Shoeburyness, Essex.

Yes, I can see why the Weapons Testing Establishment would be interested in an innocent shipment of cheese: Charlie Chaplin’s 1918 movie Shoulder Arms shows some limburger cheese being used as a weapon of war.

UHMM…

Is it just me?  or does the italian in the centre of the italian piece bag have a bunch of PLASTIC GOOP between his arms and rifle?

Looks like that one was not cut properly. But you can see a couple other infranty that are fine.

Hard to tell, I think it could be the light source coming from the lower right of the screen capture, throwing the shadow higher than you expect, making it appear so.

If you followed along on Twitter of Facebook, I played a game of 1914 this weekend. I hope to have a short review form each of the three of us up by the end of the week.

In the meantime, photos of the map, pieces, more rules explanations are all coming this week. Starting tonight, late-ish and hopefully one article per day.

oh good. And you took good pictures BTW. I bet if you took pictures of each page in the rulebook, it would be readable and we can play right away once we get the game.

Considering the game comes out in 7 days I think we can wait.

@Imperious:

oh good. And you took good pictures BTW. I bet if you took pictures of each page in the rulebook, it would be readable and we can play right away once we get the game.

I’ve had the rulebook for quite some time. I’ll post it close to the release date. I don’t want to break my trust with Wizards. If I can continue to get PDF rule books several weeks before I get the game, then we’ll all have more information earlier.

OK didnt know that, good pics.

Perhaps a pic with GLOBAL units side by side with these 1914 units would give us some capability for the house rule peeps.

Suddenly everybody wants them to be neutral forces for ww2.