Posts made by leebear

@superbattleshipyamato
I happen to really like 1941 as well. Mine is heavily customised with pieces, ancillaries and house rules which makes it great fun. I’ve never attempted the G40 game (though I own a set). I would say though, as far as historicity goes, that from what I’ve seen in G40, Spain always seems to get used as an Allied staging post where in fact Franco’s Spain was a strict neutral with Axis sympathies. Also, there always appears to be a stockpile race between Japan in Burma and the UK in the middle east. Both of these scenarios are far from the way the actual war played out.

@thedesertfox
They were selling a really nice Tiger sculpt (even better than the 1941 sculpt) over at historicalboardgaming.com. I bought 12. I’m not sure if they are still available though.

@thedesertfox
I’ve done 8 battleships and 8 carriers for both the USA and Japan. Probably half that for everyone else. I’ve done probably 20 fighters for each as well.
That 1941 set is a nightmare in terms of limited pieces. I ended up combining 2 sets but since then I’ve swapped a lot of pieces out for the unique, nation specific sculpts. I actually like the 1941 game for its simplicity though. The fact that you can’t build IC’s actually keeps navies relevant for the whole game. (Particularly for Japan).

@thedesertfox
I’ve painted all my pieces so I wanted to make sure I did enough. Battleships were my main concern as Japan and USA can end up in an arms race in the Pacific and when you go to the battleboard for the more complicated battles it gets awkward assigning hits to units that are denoted by chips.

@655321
Excellent. Thanks for the info!

@private-panic Hello there, I live in Newark in Notts and I would be glad to attend both of those events if you have room. Are they one day events?

@leebear Oh OK, I see the link to your website.

@iwillnevergrowup Are these still available? If so how much would 6 of them cost? Are they the same size as the anniversary edition boxes?

@smoke I absolutely agree. I played a solo game recently and was able to afford a carrier and another fighter with Italy, meaning there was no early threat to its navy. This is a game changer. The British ships that are left don’t appear to have any real impact on the game.

@the-captain
I went and got some Humbrol matt spray varnish earlier. I warmed it up a bit and gave it a good shake which seems to have produced pretty good results. I’m just letting everything cure overnight now.

@the-captain
Well, that’s amazing to hear as it looks like you just finished them. I’m off over to access models in Newark to get some matt spray varnish then.
Bit of trivia for you…Access models, here in Newark, England was the first retailer to sell Citadel miniatures (if you’ve heard of those). The old fella in the shop was telling me about how Steve Jackson came in back in the early 1980’s and did a deal with him.

@general-6-stars Those look amazing!
I’m in the process of varnishing mine. I’ve hand varnished all the infantry and tanks so far but I’d like to speed the process along. Is it possible to use a spray can on the bigger units like ships? I understand that I’d have to be careful not to blast them too quick but are items of this size a little too finely detailed to be “mass” sprayed?

@the-captain That’s super helpful, thankyou!

@the-captain Ahh, yeah you’d certainly need a comprehensive colour scheme like that to play with those rules, from what I’ve seen.
I’ve actually gotten better by the end of painting 600 miniatures than I was to start with, meaning I keep wanting to repaint the ones I did first. Its like a never ending cycle!

@leebear By far the most laborious part of the painting was the infantry. All the other stuff was fun to paint but you have to really focus on small detail with infantry to stop them looking a mess. If you look closely you’ll see a couple of shortcuts I’ve used such as with Japan and Germany where I’ve painted the bases and the boots the same colour to avoid having to etch my way around the boot line on every model.

@nolimit Thanks! Yeah, I’ve seen some examples of national emblems on the bases and it looks very effective but I’ve done 30 infantry for each nation and I couldn’t face all that fiddly work on so many bases!

@the-captain Thanks! Its very encouraging to hear your comments.
I primed them in grey Humbrol acrylic primer and painted them in the Vallejo range of acrylic paints and then finished them with waterslide decals from historicalboardgaming.com. I got into a bit of a rythym with the painting. There was a ton of miniatures to get through and I sort of production lined them. It would have been nice to really take my time with them but there were too many and I wanted to get them onto the board.
I’ll have a look at the ones you mentioned to try and get some inspiration.

I had some time off work so I sat and grinded out a complete set of Anniversary edition components. What do you think?
They aren’t display standard but I think they look great on the game board. I’ve also added lots of decals from historical boardgaming. Great site by the way.

I haven’t gotten around to playing this game yet as I picked it up (for a loony price) on ebay a few weeks ago. At first glance it appears to have a lots of sculpts included but being the OCD type that I am, I wondered if anyone who has experience of playing it could tell me what pieces, if any tend to run out on live games?

@toblerone77 A bit late to the party here but anyway…!
The sculpts are made in a lighter plastic than later versions and the Japanese infantry sculpts, for example, really show this. Lots of them have half their helmets missing and their rifle stocks are too thin and are thus often bowed or malformed. Another example is Italian tanks which have smaller and far inferior sculpts to the europe 1940 version.
This is my favourite Axis and Allies version regardless and I have swapped out all the pieces with better sculpts from other version. Its probably cost me a fortune in potential re sales but I don’t care.