Posts made by militaryman077

My brother and I saw it at a local theater the Friday it came out and he hated it because as he said it lacked action and didnt have surround sound. he gave it a “……” .lol

You left out the Red “Russian” China piece from Axis and Allies Pacific.

I was thinking two nice contrasting colors for the Republic vis a vis the Nationalist would be red and yellow.

They changed everything including the map, figures and other components.  Who knows, maybe they added new revised rules too.

Yes, minor and neutral sets in OOB blue French color would be nice this way we can use them as French, Vichy or Free French

The only pieces that have ever been red have been the Japanese in Pacific 2001. You’d have to find those pieces and designate them “Russian” unless Coach and Jeremy are going to make the Russian pieces match the Field Marshall Russian Dice which do look nice and red.

French set will be out in time for my birthday–sweet!

Don’t hold your breath, not for a very very long time.

Great News! Coach is coming out with an “Italian Brown” Minors set next week so we can use the trucks not only to replace FMG’s truck but also as Mech Infantry. Now I’d love to see the Neutral Set come out in French blue so I can add the trucks to the Frence mix.

Well, the poll shows one thing: that we would be happy no matter what is the next set after the British.

Looks like the lineup is gonna look like this after the british: France Russia japan

Just paint the new GMC trucks that are coming out in a few days with the U.S. supplemental set brown-end of problem.

@jim010:

UK should be removed from the poll, as FMG is doing them next anyway.  This poll should read ‘after UK’
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Ok, Jim.  It’s done. All votes have been reset to zero and let’s do it again.

Ok, simple question.  If all the rumors are true that Europe 1940 will be reissued in February of 2012 then why is the first edition up to 149.99 and selling for over 200 on ebay?  Can anyone explain it to me “… like I was a two year old?”

@knp7765:

WARRIOR888,
I totally agree with you on the Crusader for one of the British Armor sculpts.  That was a really cool tank.  As for the second, I would probably vote for the Churchill.  I like the 25 pounder field gun too.

militaryman077,
Thanks for the link to that eBay listing.  With shipping it would be nearly $100, but that’s still way better than I priced this model before.  I don’t usually like to get stuff from China, but I may make an exception in this case.  Anyway, thanks again.

You’re very welcome, KNP.  Always happy to help.

The problem with scaling can be easily solved if FMG uses the current axis and allies infantry pieces as a guide instead of having used the original pieces, which were a tab smaller.  The original pieces that seem to have been used  can be identified by the simple “Made in China” on the under side of the piece.  These original pieces are actually smaller than the present axis and allies infantry pieces.

I took one of the original pieces and put the newer FMG italian pieces next to it and it was a perfect match in terms of height, whereas the present axis and allies infantry piece was taller.

KNP, great job on the evolution of the pieces. But you never mentioned that the original pieces for the infantry were a tab smaller than the ones released in the 1987 and later versions.  The smaller infantry also had flat base and “made in china” on the bottom. The taller infantry have “made in china” in addition to the abbreviation of the country e.g. “RU” for Russia, “AM” for America, etc.
The present infantry piece’s bottom of its base is sort of indented in the middle and surrounded by a raised outer portion. I would post pics. of both types but I don’t know how to post pics or don’t have that capablity yet. If there is someone who can post pics maybe he can take a pic of both of the bottom of the pieces in question and post them, in addition to showing the relative piece size difference.

P.S. I think this is the reason the FMG italian infantry is a tab smaller than the present axis and allies pieces.  It seems they must have used the original axis and allies pieces as a guide instead of the present infantry piece, size wise.  Hopefully it was fixed with the German and U.S. scupts but it does need to be addressed.

@jim010:

I don’t know if you can still get them.

I have recently just gotten HBG’s pieces.  I have now switched out the Table Tactics mec with HBG’s trucks, which I will now be using as motorized inf (mec).

yES, they look nice.  I’m using them as mech infantry also because it’s almost impossible to find any of the central powers half tracks on ebay.

@knp7765:

@jim010:

Well, count me in for a UK set then.  And definitely count me in for a French set.

Richelieu for a BB!

Oh yeah, the French BB definitely has to be the Richelieu.  A while back, I was heavy into building models, my favorites were 1/350 scale battleships.  So far, I have the USS Missouri, the Bismarck, the Yamato and the HMS Prince of Wales.  I saw a 1/350 scale Richelieu somewhere, but they wanted over $200 for it.  That was just too much for me.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Trumpeter-1-350-05311-FRENCH-BATTLE-SHIP-RICHELIEU-1943-/110634481741?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item19c254384d
here is one for just 69.99

We can always add the USA units and taylor it to our needs as has always been done in the past with Axis and Allies games.  Can’t the map be downloaded and changes made to it after we have it in our hands???

Ausgezeitnet!!!