Cool Napoleonic/Civil War pieces on Amazon

Historical Board Gaming (HBG) is now taking preorders on their Amerika pieces for the German player, now in Black (they were originally in grey).

One thing to point out, these Pre-Orders on Black Amerika German Sets include not only the German Set pieces from base game pieces but also the German Set pieces from the Amerika Expansion Set “Bring in the Heavies”. Well worth it if you already have Amerika and the “Bring in the Heavies” expansion and you just want the new pieces, worth it if you already have Amerika and you just want the new pieces, and also worth-while if you just want to equip your late-war Germans in a game of Axis & Allies or Global War '36 or '39 with some awesome new tanks, mechs, self-propelled guns, jet fighters, and jet bombers.

For the visually-inclined, a picture of some of the pieces is available here:
picture of black Germans pieces from the re-release of HBG's Amerika game
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For those that want to know what all you get, here is a listing of what you are pre-ordering for when you put down your $45 ($40 for the pre-order, $5 shipping in the US):

Unit / (grey German Pieces) / (black German Pre-Order Pieces)
Base Game
E-100 Heavy Tank / (6) / (4)
Flakpanzer Ceolian SP AA Gun / (6) / (6)
GW Panther SP Artillery / (8) / (6)
Ho-XVIIIB Jet Bomber / (6) / (4)
Katzchen Mechanized Inf. / (6) / (4)
Me-262H1 Jet Fighter / (8) / (4)
Panther II Medium Tank / (8) / (6)
Panzergrenadier (Elite Infantry) / (12) / (12)

Bring in the Heavies Expansion
E-50 Jagdpanzer Tank Destroyer / (5) / (4)
E-555 Jet Bomber / (5) / (4)
Ho-229 Jet Tac Bomber / (5) / (4)
Jagd Tiger Heavy Tank Destroyer / (5) / (4)
Maus Super Heavy Tank / (5) / (4)
Me-264 Amerika Long Range Bomber / (5) / (4)
Tiger II Heavy Tank / (5) / (4)
Vk.1602 Light Tank / (5) / (4)
VK.4502B Heavy Tank / (5) / (4)

And if you’re ready to pre-order some awesome German Wunderwaffe, HBG is standing by: https://www.historicalboardgaming.com/Battle-Pieces--Amerika-Set-Black-Pre-Order_p_3524.html
picture of black Germans pieces from the re-release of HBG's Amerika game

-Midnight_Reaper

Volko Ruhnke took a lot of ideas from Twilight Struggle.  But the two do play quite differently from each other despite their similarities.

I don’t plan to buy the expansion (and I’m an expansion whore, so this is a big deal).

I like the new ships, but I really dislike the cinematic combat (and I really liked the interaction between dice and tactic cards in the original system).

I do like the new ships and green dice, but the leaders - while I don’t dislike them - only serve to dilute our chances of recruiting each of the classic characters which I like a lot more.

@toblerone77:

@John:

@toblerone77:

John I’m guessing you may have it already, but Battle Cry 150th Anniversary edition is readily available and improves upon the previous edition with almost twice the battle scenarios.

Anyways good luck with your search.

Tolerone77, I have two copies of that one and the original, and it is a great game, but I I wanted one that plays like Napoleon in Europe and this is as close as gets, till HBG produces their new Civil War game.

Thanks for mentioning it and thanks for wishing me luck. :-)

No problem John. If I find it I’ll send you a link if I find it anywhere.

Thanks buddy! :-)

Gopher I would follow krieghund’s link if you are playing the Xeno board game. If this is question regarding TripleA WAW variants I can’t really help I’m not  an experienced TripleA user and I’m not even sure if TripleA’s clone is a “genuine clone” as WWII is a “clone” of Axis & Allies. Try posting in the “variants” section of the A&A.org site, you may find your answer there.

Personally I never bought or played any of the Xeno games or pieces but at one time they filled a niche where A&A was absent as well as Table Tactics.

Best of luck.

Yes just Europe.

Its about $15 bucks BTW at Battlefront.com

I was refering to regular ol’ Victory.  I have Pacific Victory but I haven’t played it.  It’s combat system is based on regular Victory.  It does look like an interesting game.

It sounds awesome.  I’ll try and check it out and give it a go sometime.  I’d still like to get into Hearts of Iron more, but like I said, it takes a while to complete something.  The farthest I got was playing as Spain and basically carving France in half with Germany.  And we were just getting into 1940…