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Your favorite of the 18? And worst?
Posted: Sat Nov 04, 2006 10:36 am
by MandaloreSC
Hey guys!
I just wanted to ask you which one of the shown production samples is your favorite figure of the upcoming 18 piece wave?
My favorite is the D-Day german infantry soldier (with no name). I like the new sculpt, I like the articulation and I like the fact that he has two helmets. I can't wait to see the final product to find out in which camo pattern he will be. Perfect troop builder and just a really nice figure. Privat Kemnett would be my close No.2.
For me the worst one is Pvt. Harry "Sammy" Smith. Another bar gunner (Zzzzzzz), a not too clever face expression, and the body seems like recycling. Somehow I got the feeling that I already own this figure and I don't need to buy a new one.
Posted: Sat Nov 04, 2006 11:17 am
by tmanthegreat
I like the new Normandy German figure as well. I also like the new US Tank commander (and the other crew figures) no so much for their origionality as for the accessories!
Posted: Sat Nov 04, 2006 12:06 pm
by VMF115
tmanthegreat wrote:I like the new Normandy German figure as well. I also like the new US Tank commander (and the other crew figures) no so much for their origionality as for the accessories!
I agree, the accessories are killer.
Posted: Sat Nov 04, 2006 2:31 pm
by aferguson
yes i will go with the german in the camo smock as well. Long overdue.
Least favourite: multi way tie with a lot of the US troops that seem rather redundant. They're nice figures, just unexciting and unfresh.
Posted: Sat Nov 04, 2006 3:47 pm
by immeww2
Not so much interested in the figures themselves, but the accessories.
new figs
Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2006 3:03 pm
by digger
Agreed the German with Camo smock is the best...and I have to say Bar Gunner the worst. WAY too many BAR guns from all the companies.
Re: new figs
Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2006 5:31 pm
by tmanthegreat
digger wrote:WAY too many BAR guns from all the companies.
But it was such a great gun!!
However, I totally agree. There were plenty of the 21c S1 BAR Gunners to be had, then followed by the BoB ones, the Marines, and the fact that nearly every BBI Paratrooper came with one as well!
Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2006 3:05 am
by MandaloreSC
Yeah, we had so many different bar gunners - in every wave a new one. But we got 1 german MG 42 gunner and this guy is from 2000. I still can't believe the 12 vs 6 ratio of the new wave.
Wave 1: 5 US vs. 5 german
Wave 2 (Paratroopers): 6 US vs. 6 german
Wave 3: BoB1: 4 US vs. 3 German
BoB2: 5 US vs. 4 German
Marines: 6 US vs. 6 Japanese
Market garden: 6 US vs. ???
Wave 12 US(!!!) vs. 6 German
I hope this new trend doesn't continue.
I really think that this isn't a good idea. Maybe they will release a second wave of this figures (like Bob2) with some more germans. Some more guys in camo smocks with different heads and weapons would be a good idea (and not expensive to produce). Or some rehaches of Fallschirmjäger, or some more german tankers, or.....