Game pieces

[solomongrundy]

Hey Mark....Chad here.  Listen, I would like to buy the game but I just don't have $1000 available for a board game (wife).  What I would like to do is get the basic game and use pieces from the various Axis and Allies games as much as possible.  For things like 88's, forts, etc, I could buy certain units. Where could these miniatures be acquired?

I figure I have a much easier chance of getting the game this way....could spray paint A&A pieces.   

[Mark]

Chad,

I absolutely understand (luckily I have acquired everything I need stealthily over 4 years. . .)

The basic game comes with a list of all the miniatures you need to buy in order to play the game - so you can pick and choose what you want.  I can help you in identifying what pieces you really need and what you can cannibalize.

If you want to order the pieces you would like through us we can get you a volume discount too, instead of going directly to the retailers.

[solomongrundy]

Great thanks Mark.  I was actually planning on doing what you did...acquiring the pieces over a number of years and cannabilizing in the meantime.  Hopefully I'll be ordering in a month or two. 

And I would be interested in buying miniatures through you!!

Chad

[spitfire]

Hey Guys!

You seem to have a great game going here!
But to get us gamers going you need to add more pictures, or at least make them bigger.
Why don't you post the famous "pieces you need sheet" on the site, just a thought.
Like I said , the game seems to have it all, but we need, want more PICTURES!

[John D.]

Hello Spitfire,
  Â  Â Here is a link for more photos until we get more. A friend of mine posted some great pics from a past gaming session.


https://www.crespo.us/modules.php?set_albumName=album09&op=modload&name=gallery&file=index&include=view_album.php

Hope that helps.

John

[Mark]

OK - Spitfire - more pictures are posted in the 'After Action Reports' section from GenCon - more to come as well.

cheers,
Mark

[CHNfromG]

Hey guys,

as I have already beefed up my Advanced Axis & Allies Europe game with lots of GHQ tanks and tons of painted revell and italeri 1/72 soldiers (great US Marines, Paratroopers for US, UK and Germany, Afrika Korps etc.) I think a basic game will do it. Ships and planes come from all those A&A games (MB, revised, Europe, Pacific, D-Day) as well as some Table Tactics expansion sets.
Unfortunately tumbling dice has up to now no website, I just discovered a few photos at brookhursthobbies.com and of course this website. Looks pretty good and much cheaper and more suitable for gaming purposes than GHQ Aircraft (1/285th scale is too big and expensive).
But what really matters is skytrex. No photos at their website (at least for 1/300th scale armor and 1/3000th scale ships). How good is their quality / detail compared to GHQ??? They are much cheaper than GHQ (I guess it´s only half of their price) but as far as I can judge from your pictures here (game design) they look pretty good. Any comments from those that have both GHQ and skytrex armor and ships?

Greetings from Germany,

Christoph

[spitfire]

Hi Christoph!
GHQ pieces are more detailed and look better, higher quality if you will.
Skytrex pieces are lower quality but not bad in any way, a big + is the sturdy guns on tanks and such.
Therefore are Skytrex pieces great for gaming, you don't get those bended guns and if you somehow do it wont ruin your economy in replacing them. CinC also has great pieces fantastic details and in solid metal(not hollow as GHQ and Skytrex) only bad thing about them is their thin guns.
If you are looking for great naval pieces you should check out Navwars pieces(thanks Imperious!).
Hope this helped a little
Spitfire

[Mark]

Hi Christoph,

So, all of the naval unit pictures on the website are the Skytrex 1/3000th scale ships - there are some good close-ups of these on the game design page and in the example of naval combat thread in the discussion forum.  You can get a sample of what the tumbling dice miniatures look like in the first picture (top left corner) on the design page.  The picture on the top right has French and British tanks from GHQ.  The German tanks are from Skytrex.  The Summer 1943 screenshot (4th picture down on the left side) illustrates some skytrex Tigers and Panthers.  For a game, I think the skytrex pieces are better because of the bent gun issue that Spitfire discusses.  While the quality does not look quite as good as skytrex, they are miles superior to the plastic molds.

As for planes, you will need pieces to represent the following:
German fighters, Stukas and medium bombers
Italian early war fighters, regular fighters and bombers
Japanese fighters, bombers and Kamikazes
British early war fighters, fighters, bombers and heavy bombers
US fighters, bombers and heavy bombers
French fighters and bombers
Soviet early war fighters, regular fighters, Sturmoviks and bombers

Hope this helps,
thanks,
Mark

[Imperious Leader]

this is basically correct.. C and C IMO is the best all around value in terms of acuracy and utility, except like GHQ those soft barrels bent something terrible. For our purposes the Skytrex line which includes ships and armor has this problem solved as they see the problem and have corrected it with much harder metals, so the gun wont bent nearly as easily, but as in a harder metal if it gets bent it will weaken and if you keep getting them rebent it will brake off. This has not happened to me. The girth of the ships is a bit too wide, but its better for gaming (stability) plus it looks a bit better for aesthetics. GHQ ships are horrible (except for destroyers) they bend every which way and have too much of a hollow insides. C and C and the skytrex line are infinatly better. You have to buy some metals to round out the various pieces for this game. Only brookhurst has the tumbling dice planes (about 30 miles from me) and i got a load of them. Dont worry you dont need to look at them, just buy them they are perfect for a/a style games. On my site a have a number of pictures with tumbling dice planes. For naval i use NAVWAR which cost about 3.00 per, but they are very nice and i can get all the ww1 ships. They can be bought from scale specialites.com

[CHNfromG]

Hey guys,

three answers within a day! Thank you so much. Could it be that you are just as game miniature-addicted as I am  

Looking at Mark´s list of planes except for those early war fighters  of UK, Italy and USSR (I must have those biplanes too!!!) it can be covered with the A&A planes I got. But what about those ME 262 I saw in one of those late war pics. Also one of those must-have items...

I just discovered a german online-shop selling ghq-models. Will be cheaper for me as they don´t charge shipping when ordering for more than 60 Euro (70 bucks). To avoid additonal custom fees I had to split my orders and thus paying more shipping costs (still cheaper than custom fees).

Getting those fleets can wait I guess, but I am curious about the part´s list once I ordered my  basic game.

Anyway, how can I order tumbling dice pieces, they don´t have a website so far (there is a rockband with the same name) and I have no email-adress to order a catalogue (if they have one at all). One possibility would be ordering via John´s Toyshop.

Thanks again for your info,

Christoph

[Imperious Leader]

Just buy them from Brookhust hobbies.com. You dont have to look for anything more.

[CHNfromG]

Hello Mark,

did you receive my two e-mails with the order for the basic game and the fortifications? Sent them two days ago and haven´t heard anything from you or John (John@Johns-toys.com). Just let me know and I send them once more.

Best wishes for X-mas,

Christoph

[Mark]

Hi Christoph,

I talked to John earlier today and he got your email order.  Now the pressure is on me to make the bunkers!  Give me a little time to create those and we will ship it all off together.

Thanks,
Mark

[CHNfromG]

Hello Mark,

take your time with that. It´s only one week up to X-mas and I guess you have some other things to do right now. And I never intended to put a wargame map under the tree while it´s time for an armistice
My birthday is the last day in January, perhaps you can make it till then. Would be great.
How about my suggestion of a game piece exchange, any interest?

Christoph