Axis and Allies Miniatures: North Africa 1939-1943

3 new extensions added to Axis and Allies MINIATURAS v3.0 Vassal
-Reserves extension : New pieces, new countries, new armies…
-Rotated boards extension: Now we can choose rotated boards in our battles.
-Scenarios Campaigns extension: Complete North African Campaign pre set defined.

Download in http://www.vassalengine.org/wiki/Module:Axis_%26_Allies_Miniatures
and
https://sites.google.com/site/axisandalliesminiaturas/

Here you go:

http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=ah/aam/ah2008071508

Hey Audacity, maybe you should consider the “Play By Email” option for A&AM here on this forum. True, a 100 point game can take a week or two to play, but I enjoy the pace and the ability to do a well thought out turn in a day or two. Plus, its a great way to experiment with different force builds.

I don’t know yet. I’ll flesh out the idea more after March 5.  :-)

I’m really suprised no one’s created somthing like this. There goes any chance of me playing AAM  :cry:

Well that makes a huge difference  :wink:

Even so roughly 1/2 or 1/3 of your army is tied up in a fairly static base.  An Inspiring Lt could help you some, as could some aircraft to take advantage of the spotters.

It all depends on what you’re playing against then.  Your opponent shouldn’t know what you’re playing, so may not be prepared for that artillery attack, but even still that’s 85 points worth of units all tied up on just three mortars.  If I were playing against it (as a standard 200 pt army and not one designed to beat it) I’d probably have some heavy tanks and 2x AI units; either Brummbars or Sherman 105s.  It all depends on what the rest of your army is and how well they can function.

I have been taking a MK IV basically as bait, 3 machine guns, panzerfaust, some troops, light mortars and two officers. Clearing disruptions every turn is huge. Machine guns work on the troops along with the mortars and the MK IV hopefully holds its own if not the panzerfaust go to work.

I totally disagree about the quality of the FOW miniatures

I didnt say they were bad miniatures, only that they are a total rip off like AA miniatures. If you keep the scale with 1/285 you get those horrible blobs made by GHQ that are way to small for a decent aesthetic. Also the AA minis are not really in scale either. The soldiers seem too tall compared with say the tiger tank. FOW is in true scale but a total ripoff. AA is a smaller rip off, because they create this “collectible” crap with having some pieces made in less quantities than others. The solution is allways to go down in scale and deal with companies that can sell you what you want without resorting to “Ebay”
The secondary importance is clear when you realize that the 1/285 scale is the same size as your regular AA ground pieces (well tanks and artillery). While the necessary detraction is having 1/72 scale infantry which are large rthan the tanks.