I too dabbled with Axis and Allied miniatures and I think they are
appealing. The card that came with each ship provides a convenient
mechanism for gaming.

I thought the range and movement system could be improved so I decided
to integrate the Wings at War card movement system with these models and
use a range stick.

If anyone wants me to upload my rules mod to this system, please advise.

On Sun, 2009-01-11 at 13:20 -0500, Brandon Musler wrote:
> "I've become a bit of a zealot with these Axis and Allies War at Sea naval
miniatures. I get that they're plastic but for a C note i get about 60 ships.
THat's okay for those of us who need an instant fleet. As has been noted however
the game is a bit light on simulative quality."
>
> Note that you are conflating two different issues wrt A&A War at Sea products.
First there are the miniatures. Then there are the rules. There is no reason
(that I can see) why you can't use one without the other as long as you don't
mind playing with a sea scale different from the model scale (which is common
practice for most naval miniatures gamers.)
>
> Beauty being in the eye of the beholder, I explicitly do NOT wish to debate
the quality of the rules or the models. I merely want to point out that although
A&A Miniatures employ a scale of their own (that being between 1/2400 and
1/1200, pretty close to 1/1800 for the ships, I think) there really isn't much
reason you can't use them to play GQ or SK or anything else as long as you have
a big enough playing area and make a few simple adjustments. As I see it, for
those who don't want to paint and assemble their own ships, the tradeoff is
straightforward: A&A ships cost less but there are far fewer models currently
available than you have with lead/pewter ships in the 1/2400, or even 1/1200
scale. Also note that if you want to buy an "instant fleet" or a "fleet in a
box" you can purchase 1/6000 ships which are much closer to a matching sea
scale. Precision painting isn't really much of an issue at that scale...
>