Things that go boom.

[anxman]

It's funny, I never thought I'd be posting on a wargaming forum again, especially after making a long exodus to escape the reigns and chains of Warhammer 40K.

Hello, My name is Anxman, you may call me Anx, and I used to be an alcho... 40K Player. (Same thing sometimes..)

Long story short, I looked for new games to play, settled down with Privateer Press's Hordes, carved a very Troll-Blood niche for myself, but I missed the real firepower, and that led me here. Bought the American starter kit, two extra Airborne and a Bazooka team. It wont be long until my friend follows suite, it generally goes "Hey look what Anx got!"

So I'm here, very content with it all, but there's one pretty big thing missing for me, and after scouring the forums, no one else seemed to have mentioned it.

Where is the Rec Rifle?
The M20 Recoilless Rifle? Anyone?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M20_recoilless_rifle

Personally, I think it's something that is to much frakking fun to pass up on!

Probably already mentioned a few times, but I could not find,
The M12 Shotgun. Impractical, yes. Being able to say "This is my boomstick" as enemy soldiers drop, worth the short range, and is priceless

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winchester_Model_1912

One more for giggles, may we please have some.. Sticky bombs?
I know the Airborne will miss their socks though...

Alright, sorry to have annoyed everyone with this presumptuous first post, I'll continually dig and dig and find things that were missed/totally obscure. I'm a bit excited to found something I can get my stubborn friends to play, as well as fill that niche in my life which falls between war gaming, science fiction, and World War II.

Take care all, I'll try to keep the pomp to a minimum, and maybe just talk less in general...

All's quiet on the western front, till' next time

- Anx

[malkcntent]

Welcome to the forums and to AE-WWII! I'm still an on-again, off-again 40k and Hordes player, so I feel your pain. AE-WWII took what we loved from those games (and others) and combined them into what you see before you. Glad you found us!

Love the reference to the M20! We'll have to incorporate that into future expansions. Since the game takes place in early 1946, these things will be creeping out into the field. Good find!

We're thinking about shotguns for the future, possibly in an Over the Wire article.

Be sure to let us know how the conversion of your friends goes and your first games turn out. Again, welcome!

[tordenskjold]

Hello Anx, and welcome to the forum! Seems AEWWII is really beginning to cathch on out in the real world, lots of new players like you coming to the forum. And good luck with getting your friends into the game, they'll thank you for it.

Used to play warmachine myself, but gave it up after some time (too many special rules, exceptions to special rules, exceptions to the exceptions and so on).

Both those weapons sounds like a lot of fun, especially the shotgun ;D If you want to use them in your games I'd recommend making up some stats for them - The darkson team encourages this kind of thing.

EDIT: Damn, seems Matt beat me to the welcoming. Oh well, you win some, you lose some...

[Uktabi]

Welcome to the boards and welcome to the game!

I think this games has a lot of appeal for long time GW players. Its a true shooting game, something a lot of 40k players bitch about, and i cant tell you how great dice-less leadership is. Ive failed too many stubborn 9 tests, with a re-roll, to even care to count. In AE when shit begins to route its pretty much your fault for leaving your commander exposed or deciding to let loose one more AP of shots.

The small model count per force is a nice change for most people too. The closest thing you get in AE to a horde of 180 space orks running across the table at you is 18 to 20 Russian conscripts making a run for your lines. That might be scarier if they had choppas too... hmm new special order maybe: CHOPPAS!

Good luck with the friends, but really just have em play it and the game will speak for itself.

and if you love to dig into little nuggets of history you'll fit right in here.

oh and where are you from?

stealth bazookas FTW
~Uktabi

[anxman]

And I figured I'd have rocks thrown my way, or whatever is close at hand. Staplers, paperweights, coconuts.. you get the idea.

It could be a while for the first game. In answer to to your query, I live in a dark, foul, place. It is unrelenting and unforgiving to tabletop gamers and LGS's, that's right, I'm talking of course about NEW JERSEY!
No.. no wait my bad
Got the two mixed up
I'm talking of course about CONNECTICUT!
*Insert slasher music*

Its main exports are nothing, and yuppies, and it exceeds at destroying LGS's. There was a time where there was a wonderful place, called the Haunted Chapel. It was essentially a hole in the wall, but the owners where nice and there a lot of players. ( I have a few choice words about some of the players though...) It was mostly 40k, but they would run demos of other games quite often, and I found myself first in line to volunteer for whatever the hell they set up. DnD, Classic Battletech, Warhammer Fantasy, Confrontation, Heroscape(which is the other wargame play on a weekendly basis), Star Wars Minis, Axis and Allies(Miniatures), Twilight Imperium ,and Warmachine.

It got snuffed out though by, that's right you guessed it, yuppies, yuppies and land lords.
Now I just go through thewarstore, and then to FRPgames when they dont have what I need. There are a few vendors here and there, but no place with tables, drinks, and a frak load of people.

Anyways, sorry for my long tangents.. there was a point to this...

Ah right, found another oddball of a weapon

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Defense_M42

Could be good if anyone is planning a more cloak and dagger type of scenario/expansion

And this, I'm sure this was brought up, but it's to interesting for me to ignore

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browning_wz.1928


Alright, back to reality for a bit *groan*
Take care all, and thank you for not throwing things at me ^.^

- Anx

[skorzeny]

Combat shotguns were used primarily by the Marines, so you'll be seeing them when we do the USMC down the road. Nothing better to get rid of a facefull of Banzai charge than a good old Winchester 12 gauge!

Nice find with the M20. That should be a nasty surprise for the Axis player out there.

The United Defense M2 is something I have looked at for a clandestine espionage/secret police organization that will feature in one of the new armies down the road. It is an interesting weapon with an equally interesting history.

[thefloppy1]

I am thinking the M20 is shoulder mounted on a buffalo....

not sure what the pilot would do with it's right arm though...