Here is an interesting bit of historical trivia. The US 8th Air Force actually had bases in the Ukraine for a short time. From June to September 1944, the 8th Air Force started a shuttle run of bombers that would take off from England and Italy, bomb targets in Germany then fly on to 3 bases in the Ukraine, Piryatin, Mirgorod and Poltava. The reasoning was mainly to show solidarity with the Russians and to hit Germany from an unexpected quarter.
The mission was called “Operation Frantic”. I don’t think it was much of a success. One reason is that the Luftwaffe bomber arm was still fairly strong in the East. Some Luftwaffe planes saw the American bombers heading into Russia. Then when a shot up P-51 crashed in Poland, it had documents on the Russian bases. Luftwaffe command was notified and they send Fliegerkorps IV, nearly 350 He 111s, to pound those bases while the B-17s were lined up in neat rows due to lack of space. It was the 8th Air Force’s costliest single operation of the war.
I didn’t even know about this until I read it in World War II magazine.
New Pieces/Rules on a Throwback Board.
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Anyone ever played new rules and units on the old board?
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It would be very tough to go back and play such a simple board as Classic. That being said, I bet a lot of the newer mechanics wouldn’t work so well with such a limited territory count.
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I’m sure some stuff mght not work. Dicetruction played thier home brew version and it sounded like good times. I just wondered if anyone else had attempted it.
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I have played many games of classic with artillery and cruisers
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Did something similar back int he day. No arty but used the old Fortress America hovertanks as a Destroyer/Gunboat. Don’t laugh lol that’s pretty much all we could muster at the time. We used the parts for different stuff too. Back then there wasn’t a lot of options.
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Lol I used arty from risk, and Legos for destroyers
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One of the earliest A&A expansions which came with sculpts, Enemy on the Horizon, was designed to be played on the Milton Bradley board. It had pieces in the five classic colours. The unit types were commandos, destroyers, artillery.
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/image/89299/enemy-on-the-horizon-axis-allies-expansion?size=large
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@CWO:
One of the earliest A&A expansions which came with sculpts, Enemy on the Horizon, was designed to be played on the Milton Bradley board. It had pieces in the five classic colours. The unit types were commandos, destroyers, artillery.
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/image/89299/enemy-on-the-horizon-axis-allies-expansion?size=large
Hahaha…thanks for sharing that Marc. Yep I have seen the infantry years ago in a random photo with Table Tactics landing craft. On a second note if you still have an MB Game Master box take a look at the British infantry pic on the back… the sub machine gun and pose of the sculpt is far different than anything I’ve EVER seen OOB. I wonder if LH has them in his safety deposit box somewhere LOL.
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Anyone know of a place to pick up these units for play on the classic board? Also is there a post within the forum that has a the implementation of the rules. for the Cruisers and Artillery.
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