Battle of France 1940 (Revised) - Available to order, Print on Demand & Digital Files (PDF)

[IWillNeverGrowUp]

The full box version of The Battle of France 1940 (Revised) is available to order NOW through The Game Crafter for us$59.99 54.99 plus shipping.

https://www.thegamecrafter.com/games/the-battle-of-france-1940

The Game Crafter is a Print on Demand board game service located in the US. They will take your order, print/manufacture and assemble the product and ship it to you directly.

Contents (full box version)

• Rule book
• Game Map (18 x 27 inch/460x865mm, 6 fold board)
• Game Round Marker (red 15mm wood cube)
• Combat Cards (18) (4 French, 4 German, 4 British, 6 ‘General’)
• 6 sided dice (6) (3 red, 3 black, 16mm acrylic with standard white pips)
• Player Power Chits (15 France, 15 Britain, 15 Germany) (18mm round cardboard tokens)
• Cloth Draw Bag
• Box (front and sides printed)

NOT INCLUDED

• Multiplier Chips
• Combat Unit Miniatures (French, British and German pieces).

The DIGITAL FILES (PDF) Version is available to order NOW through The Game Crafter for us$4.99 (no waiting period, just purchase and download the files to be printed however/wherever you wish)

https://www.thegamecrafter.com/games/the-battle-of-france-1940-digital-only-

Contents (Digital PDF)

• Rule Book PDF
• Combat Cards PDF
• Game Board PDF

Also currently in production are 3D printed combat unit miniatures for BoF1940 in each of the player power colors (Blue, Tan, Grey). More info to come on those as they come available.

[IWillNeverGrowUp]

The Game Crafter has resumed production!

What does this mean for you?

If you place an order for Battle of France 1940 (Revised) right now, your order will go in to their queue. At that point, your order will be scheduled to be printed, packed and shipped to you as soon as they get to it.

They currently have a queue of 2800 orders. This seems like a lot, and yeah … it is! But, they should be able to get through the backlog within 2-3 weeks, at which point their estimated shipping dates will start to be provided as well (they require about 2 weeks of data to start offering estimated ship dates but they’ve been shut down for approx 6 weeks).

[TheVenocWarlord]

@IWillNeverGrowUp Ordered! Thank you for bringing this back!

[IWillNeverGrowUp]

Print on Demand orders are starting to ship out from The Game Crafter now that they’ve begun to catch up after their shut down.

Digital Only (PDF) files also available to purchase now for us$4.99

[TheVenocWarlord]

Woot woot!

[IWillNeverGrowUp]

Box Retail version also reduced to us$54.99 (from $59.99).

Still working on getting printed sculpts, but our 3d printers have been 100% tasked to making PPE for frontline workers for the past 3 months.

[IWillNeverGrowUp]

Updated rule book pdf added to digital files + boxed set!

Clarifications + Ommissions:

• Setup: (omission) Zone 14 (sea zone) should also include 1 transport.

• Mechanized Unit: (omission) Mechanized Unit may carry up to 2 infantry, as per the rules for sea based transports.

• Maginot Line: (clarifications)
  ** French units may not attack through the Maginot Line, at any time.
  ** Those in territories 10-13 (solid line) may not move (at all) until round 4.
  ** French units may non-combat move through the Maginot line. Once past the line, they may attack in to occupied territories (including original German territories).

• Ardennes Forest: (clarifications)
  ** Any unit may advance (combat or non-combat) in to and through the Ardennes Forest, following the rules outlined for the forest itself (movement, attack penalty, no air).

• (omission) Damaged ships may not be repaired

• (omission) Transports may carry allied units.
  ** Allied units board transports on their non-combat move.
  ** Transport moves on the controlling players turn.
  ** Allied units unload on their combat or non-combat move (dependent upon the control status of their unloading location).

• (Clarification) British Income:
  ** The British begin the game with London, Dunkirk and Brussels (beginning income of 18 NPU per turn)
  ** Any major or minor city controlled by the British will count towards income (does not include cities returned to original French control when liberated).

• (Clarification) French Income:
  ** The French begin the game with Paris, Amiens and Riems (beginning income of 15 NPU per turn)
  ** Any major or minor city controlled by the French will count towards income (does not include cities returned to original British control when liberated).

• (Clarification) German Income:
  ** The Germans begin the game with Dusseldorf, Luxembourg, Mayence (18 NPU per turn)
  ** Any major or minor city controlled by the Germans will count towards income.

• (clarification) Anti Aircraft Units:
  ** AA units only act to defend against attacking air units, not air units passing over (1 roll per attacking air unit).
  ** AA units do not apply to the stacking limit (only land units that may move count).
  ** AA units may not move and may only be built in cities.

• (Clarification) Air units MUST land in a territory controlled by the player or an ally at the start of the players turn.

[TheVenocWarlord]

@IWillNeverGrowUp said in Battle of France 1940 (Revised) - Available to order, Print on Demand & Digital Files (PDF):

Box Retail version also reduced to us$54.99 (from $59.99).

Still working on getting printed sculpts, but our 3d printers have been 100% tasked to making PPE for frontline workers for the past 3 months.

If we ordered before the price drop, does anything change there?

[IWillNeverGrowUp]

@TheVenocWarlord said in Battle of France 1940 (Revised) - Available to order, Print on Demand & Digital Files (PDF):

@IWillNeverGrowUp said in Battle of France 1940 (Revised) - Available to order, Print on Demand & Digital Files (PDF):

Box Retail version also reduced to us$54.99 (from $59.99).

Still working on getting printed sculpts, but our 3d printers have been 100% tasked to making PPE for frontline workers for the past 3 months.

If we ordered before the price drop, does anything change there?

Send me your email address AND city+state/province+country in a private message and I’ll refund you $5 via PayPal (we don’t have any control over payments made through The Game Crafter as it’s a 3rd party service).

[TheVenocWarlord]

Got shipping notification! It’ll be here Saturday.

[IWillNeverGrowUp]

@TheVenocWarlord said in Battle of France 1940 (Revised) - Available to order, Print on Demand & Digital Files (PDF):

Got shipping notification! It’ll be here Saturday.

Haha! That’s even faster than MY OWN copy that I ordered (as a designer you have to order a copy before you can mark it available for sale on The Game Crafter, as a way to make sure you get a chance to ‘proof’ it first … mine hasn’t even made it to the border yet!).

[TheVenocWarlord]

@IWillNeverGrowUp Even better! It showed up TODAY! (Thursday!)

[TheVenocWarlord]

For Blitzkreig, are all the powers supposed to have access to it? It reads as such in the rules.

[IWillNeverGrowUp]

@TheVenocWarlord said in Battle of France 1940 (Revised) - Available to order, Print on Demand & Digital Files (PDF):

For Blitzkreig, are all the powers supposed to have access to it? It reads as such in the rules.

Yes, all powers have access to it (merely called Blitzkreig because people know what that is, based on my understanding of the original rules).

[IWillNeverGrowUp]

Did a test print of some unit pieces for Battle of France 1940. Still have to work on them a bit (especially the aircraft that did not turn out well enough to show yet … wings are far too thin right now) but they’re getting there! Also missing is the french tank (did not print because of an unlevel printer bed).

[Marc Arderiu]

Re: [Battle of France 1940 (Revised) - Available to order](Print on Demand & Digital Files (PDF))

I bought a digital files only copy and there seems to be changes between the map file and the rulebook concerning territories (i.e. number 13 territory is not on the maginot line, and more). How could I get an updated version of the map?

[IWillNeverGrowUp]

@Marc-Arderiu said in Battle of France 1940 (Revised) - Available to order, Print on Demand & Digital Files (PDF):

Re: [Battle of France 1940 (Revised) - Available to order](Print on Demand & Digital Files (PDF))

I bought a digital files only copy and there seems to be changes between the map file and the rulebook concerning territories (i.e. number 13 territory is not on the maginot line, and more). How could I get an updated version of the map?

Hi Marc, send me an email at sales@iwillnevergrowup.com with this info and I’ll get you the updated files.
Guess I’ll have to go see why the updates did not go up on The Game Crafter files…

** Update: The discrepancy was in the image in the rules, not the game board/map itself and does not affect game play. Corrected. **

[crsluggo]

I like the pieces! Looking forward to you bringing these to market. Thank you again for reprinting this neat little title.

[IWillNeverGrowUp]

@crsluggo said in Battle of France 1940 (Revised) - Available to order, Print on Demand & Digital Files (PDF):

I like the pieces! Looking forward to you bringing these to market. Thank you again for reprinting this neat little title.

Some of the 3D printed pieces are available individually as we work on getting the rest to print well on the 3D printers.
StuGIII, Panzer III, Sdkfz 251D halftrack, Bren Carrier and Crusader tanks;

http://iwillnevergrowup.com/shop/index.php?route=product/category&path=62_93

I would love to go the route of injection molded for high quantities, but the upfront costs are too high for such a small business right now.