what set is the best

[Atv_Tim2]

1. set 1, Base Set
2. set 2, Eastern Front
3. set 3, Contested Skies (http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=ah/article/ah20060323a)
4. set 4, D-Day
5. set 5, Reserves

[TheCygnysGuardian]

Each one has it's perks. I have no favorite.

[DarkMercy]

I'm going to have to say the Base Set. It has the basic infantry and tanks for each of the major powers.

[horacus]

i have, no favorit personal, but well, I like set 2 very much.

[malcolm_river]

Set 2. It has two of my favorite tanks in the game: M24 Chaffee and SS-Panzer-IV Ausf F2.

[Testicleez]

Base set is the best...it has, after all, the most highly sought piece of the entire series....the T-34/76.

Furthermore, it provided the basic infantry needed. As we all know, you cannot win a war without good infantry on the ground.

[Surfer_Sam]

Set one. Has the french Renault, my favorite unit

[DocD]

I had to choose the Base set for all the reasons put forth. I also like the Reserve set and think it should be a close second. Contested Skies I'm sure will be a very distant last.

[Predator666]

I like all of the sets a lot except for contested skies. I chose base set because it has a lot of great units that I still use.

[Jay_Gatsby]

D-Day. I'm a sucker for Fireflies and Focke-Wulfs. They more than make up for the heroes.

[Remember-OWS-]

Base set for my Favorit Turret Tank, the Panther.
If The StugIII long barrel version had been in set III, I would have vote for that one

[Cruizin2000]

You could buy the Base Set and be happy. Set II is a very close second.

C2000

[polish_horsy]

D-day? That IMO was the crappiest set and the low point for AA minis.

[DooMNaToR]

The base set has my vote even though I was unlucky to get Mosin-nagant (I've only 1 from the first starter that had my only one renault (so I can't do a french swarm like Surfer Sam) ;) ... so none in 10 base set booster) and Arisaka (2 from booster, but as Japan doesn't seem to be very popular in the store where I bought most of my booster, so I could buy many of them seperatly)... 6 rares missing including Croc, Tiger I and Ha-Go.

But I should buy at least one reserve booster this week to get finally "taste" some units from that set. ;) This game isn't made for poor people like me, but this is a fun game to play nor to collect. Das ist Leben... C'est la vie!

I'm also surprised for the difference between Countested Skies and D-Day... the quality of the units from D-Day was not really good. By exemple, I don't have to worry about my Pumas' turret which it isn't the case for my Marders II or my Vet Tiger.

[PatrickWR]

From a gameplay standpoint, Set II (the so-called Eastern Front expansion) generated the most excitement for me and my group. I remember gleefully purchasing a case-and-a-half of boosters and ripping into them in the parking lot of the store, then gazing in awe at the glorious IS-2 and T-70 platoon that I assembled for my Russian army. Set II prompted a lot of healthy trading and army building and really took the game to the next level.

In contrast, I got half a case of D-Day and no Reserves at all.

[Richter von Manthofen]

Base Set no one wonders why...

We should do a poll for the SECOND BEST set :D

That would be hard as each set has its merits, but I beliece I would go for CS as it had really nice SU and UK units - my favourite Allies. Also Elite Pz IV and Stug III

D-Day is third (Spitfire ;), Higgins Boat, Hawker, Brit Para, Canadians,... Vet Tiger, Wehrmacht Veteran)

Reserves is No. 4 IMO, but as its units are largely unplayed by me it can change)

I do not really like Set II as it has to much "undeeded" rare (my opinion)

[oddfellow]

I'm all for any set that does not include Kuomintang ... those things caused me emotional damage when I pulled them from from my Eastern Front boosters. It didn't help that I seemed to get an unfair amount of them. I'm still in therapy. Despite the K-Men, I really liked the introduction of both paras and snipers in set II, though Germany should have had some paras from the get-go IMHO.

[Kaufschtick]

If you look at the "set" symbols molded into the bottom of the actual units themselves, you'll see that the symbol for set I is the same symbol on the set II pieces. I think set one and two were meant to be "the base" set of pieces when taken together.

There are just not enough Russian pieces for me to call set I the best set. Take set one and two together, and you have a real good base of pieces for the five main players.

[Lt_Douglas]

They all tend to blur at my age ;)

But any series with Brit Paras and the Typhoon gets my vote ;)