G40 Map Overlays

[vodot]

Hi all, I’m starting work on some G40 map overlays to add some of the same experimental and expanded features from my AA50 map. As with that project, I will be using Tjoek’s incredible ‘restored’ G40 map file as my starting point for these overlays. If you haven’t seen his incredible work restoring, cleaning, and fixing the G40 map, you owe it to yourself to check it out!

So: what modular/hot-swappable/experimental map changes would you like to see for G40? Below are some initial thoughts of mine, based again on the additions/tweaks I’ve tried for AA50:

VCs

• Singapore
• Cape Town
• Rio
• Istanbul?

RCs
More Islands worth IPCs?
Sea Zone tweaks?
Identify Straits & canals

USA

• EUS subdivision
• WUS subdivision

UK

• Maldives/Ceylon exchange?

FRA

• Free France implementation ala G40 Lite?

USSR

• White Sea Canal
• Northern Sea Route
• Trans-Siberian Railroad
• Vladivostok changes?

ANZAC

CHINA

• Communists?

GER

ITALY

• Strait of Messina

JAPAN

• Home Island subdivisions

[CentralCommando]

@vodot Wow! I don’t have many suggestions, but here’s the ideas I thought of:

• Sierra Leone under British Control instead of Neutral
• Repurpose one IPC from Queensland and give it to New Guinea, highlighting its importance during the Pacific campaign.
• Represent Borneo as Dutch (perhaps you could split British Sarawak into its own territory.
• Represent Western Canada as Canadian.
• Add Sakhalin to Soviet Russia
• Create a land bridge between Sicily and Southern Italy.
• Pro Axis Iran
• Make Mexico a Pro-Allied Neutral.
• Make Argentina a Pro-Axis Neutral.

G40 is already a really complex game, so not too many more divisions should be made. A lot of your additions sound good though!

[vodot]

@CentralCommando said in G40 Map Overlays:

@vodot Wow! I don’t have many suggestions, but here’s the ideas I thought of:

• Sierra Leone under British Control instead of Neutral
• Repurpose one IPC from Queensland and give it to New Guinea, highlighting its importance during the Pacific campaign.
• Represent Borneo as Dutch (perhaps you could split British Sarawak into its own territory.
• Represent Western Canada as Canadian.
• Add Sakhalin to Soviet Russia
• Create a land bridge between Sicily and Southern Italy.
• Pro Axis Iran
• Make Mexico a Pro-Allied Neutral.
• Make Argentina a Pro-Axis Neutral.

G40 is already a really complex game, so not too many more divisions should be made. A lot of your additions sound good though!

Thanks for the input, these are great!

What do you mean by “Represent Western Canada as Canadian?” ‘De-yellowing’ the territory?

[CentralCommando]

@vodot On the Pacific 40 board, Western Canada is marked with a British Roundel instead of a Canadian Roundel like Ontario and Quebec.

I’m glad you liked my ideas!

[vodot]

@CentralCommando

Really? On the one I looked at earlier it’s Canadian-roundeled :) Maybe Renegade fixed it in their reprint? I’ll check some of my older AH boards tomorrow…

[barnee]

@vodot

Hi vodot

Make Columbia border the Carribbean the way BlackElk did with UHD