Hi ANZAC. For the HBG 1939 map, think of a 4x8 sheet of plywood. Its is HUGE and awesome. You need a big room for that size table plus room to walk around on all 4 sides. I only played the 1939 game one time and I can say it is definitely superior in a hundred different ways, but playing it is an order of magnitude more complex than global 1940. Global 1940 seems like the kiddie game next to it, which is nuts because global 1940 is not an easy game by any means. I’d say your best bet is to get the global 1940 if only for the pieces, and then blow the extra money for the 1939 map and elite pieces if and when you and your crew outgrow it. Another option is to play 1940 on this site with triplea.
My Global gaming setup
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I play a lot of AA with one of my roommates. We had a nice little war room set up for 1942, P40 and E40, but for the global game, we needed a new plan. None of the tables in our house are big enough for the full boards, so I made my own. I put together a table top using plywood, 2x4s and felt. I also glued together some balsa wood and wooden dowels to make the little rakes that generals use in the war room in movies. Finally, I got a large piece of plexiglass to cover the table when not in use. This way, my other 3 roommates can use it as a coffee table for most of the day.
The table in the room.
My “war rake”
As you can see, the table with plexiglass can support full beers.
Here’s the banker’s set up.
I wrote this program in Excel to track the banks and purchases. Makes it a lot easier to record 10 economies.
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Very nice setup! Probably a better war room than what some of the real generals of the actual minor neutral powers had in 1939 (including the beer-holding capacity)!
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Can you email or upload a copy of the spreadsheet/program?
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There’ll be a lot of requests; it’s easier to just upload the prog to this site.
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I added a thread with the spreadsheet and instructions: http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?topic=20366.0
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That is an awesome idea. Simply make the game table into shadowboxed coffee table so as to always see the game board!!! I love it!
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Haha that ‘war rake’ is pretty badass. Nice setup man!
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Awesome table dude Kudos on that.
Is war Rake the actual name for that tool? I have been looking allover for what it is called.
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I don’t know what the official name is, but I looked around the internet for a long time before I broke down and made my own. You can get “croupier sticks”, which are what the croupier uses to collect the dice in craps, but it doesn’t really have that “war room” feel to it.
I just bought some wooden dowels and balsa strips from a craft store, then I cut the strips into rectangles and wood-glued them to the ends of the dowels.
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Nicely done. Thank you for supplying the download, I can’t wait to try out the program.
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Is war Rake the actual name for that tool? I have been looking allover for what it is called.
Page 3 of the rulebook for “Attack!” by Eagle Games rather blandly refers to these tools as “long sticks.” I think “war rake” has a better ring to it.
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What type of Deschutes beverage are you drinking there?
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well done you can zone on strategy during your morning coffee
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Nice touch with the Plexiglass.
People can see the game board and think about their moves during nongame times.
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I don’t know what the official name is, but I looked around the internet for a long time before I broke down and made my own. You can get “croupier sticks”, which are what the croupier uses to collect the dice in craps, but it doesn’t really have that “war room” feel to it.
I just bought some wooden dowels and balsa strips from a craft store, then I cut the strips into rectangles and wood-glued them to the ends of the dowels.
Yeah I was thinking of doing the same.
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