One of the things that’s stopped me from painting my sculpts (aside from the obvious challenge of all the detail work haha) is the issue with difficulty of recognition. You know, since most ships are gray, and most planes are neutral colors, and its hard to spot a very tiny national roundel or insignia to easily identify which units belong to which nations
Lately I was thinking, what if each unit had a squared off basestand, in colored plastic that matched the current scheme?
for example…
Germany infantry, artillery, tanks etc stand atop a tiny gray square.
The Russian’s have a red square, the British a tan square, Japanese golden square, American green square etc.
Same deal with fighters, even ships, basically every unit on a flat plastic base that matches the usual national color schemes for A&A.
I was thinking this would be fairly simple, and would make it easier to “push” units (especially ground) across the map with minimal wobble, while still keeping the essential color-scheme that everyone is familiar with on the bases.
I think something like that would look cool for any future special deluxe anniversary edition type boards.
I’ve seen black bases and clear bases before, but I think it would be cool to have them colored to fit the usual scheme… Red, Grey, Tan, Gold, Green etc.
I also prefer the squares to circular bases for infantry, since then you could “lock and push” the units with ease. The square base could be fitted into a depression on the round plastic counter chips, that way units stay fixed in place. And you could do the same with transports and carriers, providing flat bottoms that fit the rectangular bases. The advantage of the square/rectangle, is that it will leave visible more of the national color information, so its easy to distinguish the units at a glance.
Does that make sense?
