Plastic Playing Pieces

@Imperious:

The Germans or americans dont need a fighter bomber because they already have stuka and p-38, so its basically 4 plane molds and 6 mech molds.

That’s what I do with my Stukas and lightnings… although a P51 would be nice!  :-)

I guess we all have every single A&A sold to date? This gives us trucks, Stukas, Blockhouses - I’ve even been using my original AA subs as super subs, and used to use the old battleships as crusiers.

From a sales point of view, I would have thought things like Super Subs, Rockets and Jets (which are already in the rules) would have a wider appeal than some of the more specific units - if it comes down to priorities.

TT - how many units do you need to sell to break even? I wish I had that kind of cash to spare, otherwise it would be winging its direction to you right now!

Are you looking for some pre-orders from the community?

For $50, I’m in.

@templeton:

@Imperious:

TT - how many units do you need to sell to break even? I wish I had that kind of cash to spare, otherwise it would be winging its direction to you right now!
Are you looking for some pre-orders from the community?

With the larger mold I can produce pieces for 2 cents and sell them for a dime. One shot of 48 pieces (this could be any color or country), sell it for $5 and make $4.  That would only require me to sell about 16,300 sets to break even.
I’m not taking formal pre orders.  I’m sure the sales are there but the development money is not. Right now I am burning up inventory and Table Tactics has been in the black the last 2 years but not enough to get any bank to make a loan or attract a venture capital partner.

TT, if you make pieces that are close to A&A pieces in colour and size, will you violate the copyright to Hasbro ?

no not at all. Only if he took the hasbro mold and copied it. Anybody is free to make any pieces they desire and colors are not copyrightable.

Jack -
being a “silent” member of the A&A forums since 1998 when i first went “online”, all i can say is that if you make them, we’ll buy them! I own 5 copies of each set you have made to date. Good luck and keep 'em coming!
Thoes426

Ditto above!

I put together pieces from TT, Eagle, Xeno, TWG and all my own considerable collection for plastic HO’s to find the best possible piece in every category I can think of… Give me more piece options and I will buy at least some, and maybe 4 or 5 copies if they fit what I’m looking for especially well.  Glad to see TT weighing in, as I like your pieces very much from a quality angle, (and own 4 or 5 copies of everything you’ve made carefully organized in tackle boxes) but just wish you’d made some different choices.  (a half-track in Central Powers but no biplane? Maybe you should have ditched the WW1 tank and just called it A&A Accessories 2…)

This sort of thing could go on ad infinitum…I’m sure every one of us has their own unique “wish list.”

I think the smartest thing is to go not so much by broader categories, but by which individual units in which colors would be in the highest demand.  some kind of poll, maybe?

Aaron

To ILs list I would add:

Armoured Trains

Long-range Fighters (mustang for Lightening swop)

Armoured Trains

Radar Installations (neutral pieces like Aas)

Cavalry (Cossacks) for Germany & USSR

My main interest is for pieces to represent techs, which I dislike using without specific pieces to represent them. 
This is more useful to me than, for example, specific Italian artillery units.

Yea we already got Italian pieces and they are fine for now. New pieces would be a benefit. I am not too concerned with a unique Soviet artillery unit unless its Katyuska or a dedicated heavy say 155MM artillery unit.

Id like the new units to have a proposed value that was playtested… so perhaps the heavy artillery would be a 3-2 unit?

Would Heavy Artillery still modify the attack value of Infantry?

no and artillery should not boost infantry. Fighters should boost tanks. heavy Artillery rolling a one in the first round choose loses and all artillery should move 2 spaces

@Imperious:

no and artillery should not boost infantry. Fighters should boost tanks. heavy Artillery rolling a one in the first round choose loses and all artillery should move 2 spaces

The basic rule could say that units dont modify each other.

Then we could have this Leader/Commander/General/HQ unit, and with this mastermind present Combined Arms would be allowed, like artillery boost infantry, and fighters boost tanks. I suggest that a task force with an General can roll all dices simultanesly, and then assign the results to the units. This is because this General make better use of the resources (the dice), than a stack with no brain.

Example 1; A Task Force with 1 General, 2 tanks, 3 artillery and 8 infantry attack an enemy stack.
This is 14 dice that are rolled simultanesly. (The General also contribute with a die, that are without any fixed value.) Assign all 1’s to the infantry, all 2’s or less to the artillery, all 3’s or less to the tanks.

Example 2; A stack without any General, but with 2 tanks rolling separatately, 3 artillery rolling separately and 8 infantry rolling separately. This is the basic combat system present.

So now we need a Leader unit. Luckily it seem like TT already made this molds  :-)

I made one big mistake when I made new pieces for A&A and that was to right rules for them.  I have learned to leave that up to the you experts.
I remember one call I recieved from a mountain in Japan where 15 American military guys passed the time playing A&A with my expansions.  They called me at 3:00 AM to clarify the movement of the landing craft.  It seems I was not clear about lands that touched 2 water areas.  One of them landed on one coast of an area and tried taking off on the other.

Hey nobody has mentioned railroad tracks and they would be easy. :O)

@Table:

I made one big mistake when I made new pieces for A&A and that was to right rules for them.  I have learned to leave that up to the you experts.

Yes, I strongly advice you to just make the plastic pieces, and leave the rules to the customers.  :-)

Well, nothing wrong with giving suggested stats/ values/ uses for them.

Then again, I never saw your rules as anything BUT suggestions and never let them hamper my own creativity in coming up with my own… but that’s how I’ve approached just about every game, ever since that day 15 years ago when I first saw the “new” risk version with the miniatures, and thought… “this game could be so much cooler if the minis represent inf, cav, & art, rather than 1’s, 5’s, & 10’s…”

If we do get our own run of pieces going, I would like to suggest that we mould a Pz. IV for the German tank. I dislike using the Panther because it didn’t show up until 1943. While the Pz. IV was in service from beginning to end in some variant.

I’m in for $50.

@DrLarsen:

I put together pieces from TT, Eagle, Xeno, TWG and all my own considerable collection for plastic HO’s to find the best possible piece in every category I can think of… Give me more piece options and I will buy at least some, and maybe 4 or 5 copies if they fit what I’m looking for especially well.  Glad to see TT weighing in, as I like your pieces very much from a quality angle

Ditto for me, and I look forward to buying one or more sets of whetever new pieces TT is planning to produce.

CWO Marc

Im in for $500.00

not a typo