Posts made by Resident

I have it. I’ve played around with it but never a full game.
It’s cool, but I think actually playing it would be a beast. It’s real world physics for the table, so you click\drag\release to throw the dice. Dice can hit pieces and knock them over. You can flip the table. you count out IPC’s yourself and set them in a pile. It’s just like playing on a table. It is VR compatible though which might be pretty cool. Weird to think of playing a board game in VR though.

@seancb:

What kind of material did you use for the map? Also is it a solid board or can it be rolled or folded?

Foamcore, so no rolling. It’s mounted to the plywood with trim molding around it. I could take it out in theory, but it’s designed to be permanent.

@seancb:

I like to strategic bomb UK so they are forced to buy everything in South Africa or Quebec or build a mIC in Persia.
This is how I like to do it and you can do it anyway you want.

Wouldn’t it be easier from the UK perspective to repair the IC in the UK as opposed to shipping in from the stretches of the empire? With the newer IC rules, it seems like strat bombing takes much more of an effort to make an effective difference since they can still build  (albeit not at full cap) until the value hits “0”

@seancb:

That is one awesome table. We are still trying to determine the best way to print the map. So not much progress for us yet.

Kinkos was perfect for me. It wasn’t cheap, but something like this will never be cheap. I paid around $160 or so for mine. It took 3 days. Came out very crisp and sharp. No complaints at all.

@Young:

@Resident:

Speaking of electronics, my next add on is going to be a motion sensor in the rolling area hooked up to an MP3 player that plays fighter and machine gun sounds every time it gets tripped so that dice rolls will have sound effects.

WWHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATTT!!!

It’s a few steps off. Will post video when it happens.

@Spitfire38:

Hey Resident! This an amazing table - I don’t usually frequent the threads on gaming tables, as I’m more of a painter. I had to stop and comment though - love what you’ve done here. The rolling tray and fooseball style hit marker beads are a great touch. Looks like it would make for a very integrated game. Thanks for sharing!

Thanks a lot. I’m really happy with it. Not 100% satified with the beads. I’m going to look around for a nice set of bronze beads that will match the corner guards I’ll be putting on. I think it’ll tie it together nicely.

@CWO:

This is a great table, and the cup holders are a clever concept that I don’t think I’ve ever seen used before on this kind of project.  Nice work!

Thanks!
here’s a link to the cup holders if anyone is interested:
http://www.boatstore.com/catalogsearch/result/index/?p=1&q=cup+holder

I got this item
http://www.boatstore.com/large-cup-holder-3-77-d-x-4-2-w.html

If I had to do it over again, I’d probably go with the smaller more expensive size. As it is now, they’re a bit big and particularly with the planes and ships, the smaller pieces fall to the bottom (subs and fighter). I’ll probably end up making some 4 way separators for each cup holder to keep like pieces apart. That should fix it nicely. Also might install some LED’s in the German wells.

Speaking of electronics, my next add on is going to be a motion sensor in the rolling area hooked up to an MP3 player that plays fighter and machine gun sounds every time it gets tripped so that dice rolls will have sound effects.

@ausf:

I played the Axis in that fashion. I left France for Italy (after softening) and had Germany concentrate on the British fleet and Sealion. It was an early success, knocked the UK out of the picture almost immediately and gave Italy a boost, but ultimately that cost Germany too much to defend a strong Russia.

Once Italy had to help Germany defend the Russian onslaught, the US had an open door through Africa.

The way I see it (in my limited scope) is even with Italy’s boost, they’re never strong enough to hold off the Allies. The only way is use Germany’s wealth (post Russia conquer) to build Festung Europa.

So, even with a successful Sealion, Germany wasn’t strong enough to go after Russia? I would think that the boost to Italy would make them strong enough to make a US landing in Africa unpalatable AND approach Russia from the south via the Middle East.

Last game we played, the Chinese player just kept moving out of range of Japan, letting him take territory but not units. He also didn’t spend his money, so when he finally got backed into a corner, he was sitting on a nice stack of money and rebuilt his entire army behind Japanese lines.

Yeah, that map on the wall is actually my daughters (2 & 3). In installing the table we had to move around stuff in the basement. That map used to be at toddler level, but had to move it because furniture was going in it’s place. It won’t be up there long. My wife has some of her grandfathers charts (he was in a b-17) that I’m going to get framed and put in that corner at some point.

I’m hoping to eventually add a room into the unfinished portion of our basement (we’re lucky, it’s a 50’s ranch with a 2000 sqft basement. plenty of room for my game hobby). That’ll get the full treatment.

As far as the talent goes, trust me, I have little to none. My cuts are sloppy, staining is uneven. My projects usually don’t turn out this good. It was actually a really easy one. One of the great things about home depot is that they will do all the cuts for you there. Just make sure your measurments are good. It saves a ton of time and money if you don’t already have the right tools.

Thank you! I hadn’t gotten to the player help section.

@Young:

You only need 10 posts I think, get into a discussion on another thread and than come back and post pics… would love to see them.

Oh, that’s not bad. This should actually be my 10th. Been trying to lurk a bit here and get the lay of the land before I get too into posting. I know each forum has it’s own culture and etiquette that I like to figure out before I dive in.

Sorry if I’m retreading old territory - I’m still trying to get a feel for the board and searching topics.

But does anyone have any experience with Germany softening up France on their turn, but actually leaving it for Italy to clean up, take the IPCs and the territory? I could see an advantage here, giving Italy a huge reserve to draw on to dominate the med. Obviously it tightens things for Germany, but does having 2 economies closer in parity make sense?

Hi, is there a list or something of commonly used abbreviations used here? Some are pretty obvious, (like J1, etc)… but there’s a lot that I can’t make heads or tails of.

Hey, I don’t have enough posts to actually post pics or a link on here yet, but if anyone wants to check out the table I’m just wrapping up, it’s right here:

I used my old gaming table (also custom by me) as a base. I used a 4x8 oak ply ($50) from Home Depot. The surrounds are also oak planks (~$150 total). Stain is Bombay Oak. It came out sloppier than I had hoped, but I’m always terrible at staining. The board is YG’s taken to Kinkos. It’s 6’6" ($170). I wanted it 7’, but they kind of screwed up and left 6" of white on each side. It worked out OK though since it meant I could fit it on the 4x8 board and still have room on the side for a rolling area. I did about 10 coats of spray on modge podge to keep the beer off. It came out a little rougher to the feel (like sandpaper) than I’d hoped, but I think it’ll smooth out with play.

The piece holders are 4" cup holders from some boat store. They were .67 each. If I were to do it again, I would have done 3" instead. I used a 4" hole cutter on my drill. Was very simple, but you don’t want to do it on a cordless. You’ll drain a battery every 3rd hole and it’ll take forever. Rolling area is just a piece of foam with green felt glued to it. I’m going to make a green felt cover too so I can save a game and play something else on top.  I think that’s it.
All told, not including the game and my old table, it probably cost about $400.

I still have some finishing touches to put on it. I have some bronze owl feet corner guards coming in that will go on all the corner pieces, and I’m going to do built in abaci at some point. I’m not wild about the ones I have now.

@IWillNeverGrowUp:

I can’t comment really on anything related to issues with FMG but;

@Wolfshanze:

I wish a more reliable company (like IWNGU) could stock the things FMG seems to have exclusively (like Combat Dice).

Actually we do carry FMG products when available. We have combat dice in stock and can get our hands on most of the other products fairly quickly (the dice are the sellers, so that’s all we keep in stock at the moment, even though it’s in limited quantities).

Any chance you can get the brass flight stands? I didn’t see them on your site.

@Wolfshanze:

FMG on the other hand… I don’t think they do good business… though from what I’ve read, I’m not sure I’ve heard of anyone actually getting ripped off, just EXTREMELY SLOW service and completely non-existent customer service.  Not a good company to do business with… unfortunately, it seems they are the exclusive dealers of some things that are great for A&A (Combat Dice and Custom Italian Units off the top of my head).  I wish a more reliable company (like IWNGU) could stock the things FMG seems to have exclusively (like Combat Dice).

Yep. I really wanted those Brass Flight stands, but I guess I could settle for plastic. Anyone know of any other options for A&A flight stands?

Got a question for defending against Taranto as Axis. Does it make sense for Germany to fly a fighter down to Southern Italy to bump up the scramble value from 2 to 3?

@Wolfshanze:

If it says it was in-stock at the time you ordered it, you should eventually get it… they are just not fast about it… if it wasn’t in-stock when you ordered, I don’t know what to tell you, because they have the worst customer service ever (if by “customer service”, you mean a company that flat-out doesn’t communicate with their customers).

So if it was in-stock, I would just sit and wait… they should eventually deliver… just may be awhile, and don’t expect friendly e-mails with tracking numbers… just one day it will be on your doorstep.  If it wasn’t in-stock, not sure what to recommend, cuz I doubt they’ll talk to you.

I hear you, but there are other sources I can get flight stands from. I don’t like to support companies that have this attitude towards their customers.

Thanks for the heads up. Time to get a refund.