@Azimuth yeah, I understand the challenge, I’m a graphic designer and I was playing around with a circular map design when I stumbled upon yours. I still might finish my design as I was incorporating some map changes I found interesting. But so far I think I’ll need some blow up boxes or something to make it work at a reasonable size.
Cyanight's Customizations
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Very good points Marc.
I used the Blue Swastika for Finland since its Pro-Axis in the game.
I was going to use the Nationalist roundel for Spain but decided to use the Republican one. I can switch that one to the nationalist.
I tried to match the Portuguese colonies with the names on the board. I had no idea they were all supposed to be Portuguese, hehe.
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Glad the comments were useful. In case it might serve for inspiration purposes, this thread…
http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?topic=32700.0
…contains nine photos (click on them to expand them) of my customized Global 1940 table, whose customizations chiefly involved roundel modifications. The accompanying text explains the rationale for the various changes.
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That’s a great reference - So Angola and Mozambique were Portuguese territories?
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So Angola and Mozambique were Portuguese territories?
Yup. And few other places too that don’t show on the Global map. The Azores were one such place, and in 1943 Portugal allowed the Allies to lease bases there for aircraft and ships, which helped greatly the Allied convoy-protection efforts.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Portuguese_Empire_20th_century.png
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I finally finished my Italian pieces. I wanted to post them when I completed the whole set.
BR-20 Bombers
Breda BA 65 Tactical Bomber
Aquila Class Carrier
Roma Battleship
Carro Armato 41 Tanks
Semovente 105/25 Tank
Infantry, Alpine Infantry
Super Subs
Autoblinda 41 Armoured Cars(Adv Mech), M15/42 Tanks(Heavy Tanks), Hummel (Adv Artillery)
P.108 Heavy Bombers
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AWESOME!
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Awesome is right ! Units like that and Italy would have won the war! Really like the subs! Simply Outstanding !
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Thank you everyone :)
Now that HBG has the Amerika sets I need to get the rust off and start painting again. I feel like its Christmas in July, lol
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Now that HBG has the Amerika sets I need to get the rust off and start painting again.Â
Do you mean that the HBG Amerika game is finally in stock? I haven’t yet received my pre-order copy.
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I haven’t received a shipping notice yet either. I saw a post on facebook that they had them in stock and were doing QC on the pieces. I hope that doesn’t take another year, lol
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I made some more updates to the map from request by another AA member. The first file contains changes to roundels and enlarged capital roundels. The roundels in Africa now are Portugal. Each territory in Persia has a different roundel and Eire, Iraq and Turkey also have new roundels.
The second map contains all the changes in the first map as well as New Zealand roundels for Solomon Islands and New Zealand; New Roundels for Spain and the addition of the Azores and Canary Islands.
http://www.mediafire.com/view/m1oe962p1os59nr/A%26A%201940%20Global%20Game%20Board_1_U_008.jpg
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Big thanks to Cyanight for the map, really happy with it.
Rand
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Holy cow, Cyanight! I come back from vacation in Colorado, and load and behold, a new painted Italian force emerges. Fantastic paint jobs! I really like your choice in colors.
Great job! :-D
John
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Thank you so much John. I wondered where you wandered off too, hehe.
Still waiting on Amerika pieces but hopefully I can start painting them soon. I did order some new factories from Shapeways and should have them any day. The new factories have 4 smoke stacks. They will be used for Increased Factory Production Technology.
Minor Factories (one smoke stack) - Production 3
Adv Minor Factories (2 smoke stacks - OOB version) - Production 4
Major Factories (3 - smoke stacks) - Production 10
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Thank you so much John. I wondered where you wandered off too, hehe.
Still waiting on Amerika pieces but hopefully I can start painting them soon. I did order some new factories from Shapeways and should have them any day. The new factories have 4 smoke stacks. They will be used for Increased Factory Production Technology.
Minor Factories (one smoke stack) - Production 3
Adv Minor Factories (2 smoke stacks - OOB version) - Production 4
Major Factories (3 - smoke stacks) - Production 10
Adv Major Factories (4 - smoke stacks) - Production 12Wow, they have Advanced major and minor factories! I will have to check that out.
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New Tech tokens - (Purple poker chips)
New registered dice from vegas.
New Objective cards
Technology - War Bonds (These will be used to indicate the player has the war bonds technology)
Technology - Long Range Aircraft . (Normally these would fall over but they are magnetized and take up very little space. Even less than the plane itself. Any plane on a stand is designated to have long range technology) These are polarized to match any magnet on a plane or carrier. This works on any plane so I don’t have to have sculpts for LRA.
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Sweet ! Bet a V-2 would look cool on a stand ! : )
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Man, these are so awesome, Cyanight. Fantastic job on all these. :-D
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great job on the aircraft stand solution! what a advantage it is having a magnetized board. Since the planes are not permanently attached to the stand you don’t have to worry up them taking up too much space in your storage boxes…like I do…
very well engineered cyanight.
ps looks like Amerika should be getting shipped out soon… All the pieces have finally arrived they are just doing their quality control. Cant wait for these new units… need them to spark up the brush again.
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Normally the bases on these stands take up a lot of space but since I have a magnetized board I was able to use the small 1cm pieces that are normally attacked to the piece. I got these from Litko.
I am so ready to start painting Amerika pieces :)
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