World War 2 Flight Map

The ranges in the attached map look believable.  As for the A&A rules – any version of them – I consider the travel ranges of all the units (planes and ships and ground units) to be abstractions more than anything else.  There are a couple of reasons for this.  In terms of space, the A&A maps are not only distorted (in both size and shape) relative to the geography of the real world, they’re unevenly distorted; in Global 1940, for example, China is highly compressed east-to-west compared to its north-to-south dimensions.  In terms of time, a game turn doesn’t represent (as the attached map does) a single airplane sortie but rather a span of several months – and an imprecisely defined one, for that matter.  In tactical-level wargames, which operate on a much smaller scale both in terms of time and geography, it’s possible to have meaningful range accuracy, but as far as A&A goes I think that the best that can be achieved is to give units a range that looks vaguely plausible on an impressionistic level.

@Cmdr:

Interesting points.

I do notice that sea zones, at varying differences between games, seem to be either more or less friendly than land zones can be when determining flight ranges.

I think, in regards to Europe, the map lines up pretty well with the rules (in the current rendition of the game).  I think in classic it does not line up as well.  Just my two copper pieces…

Then the US figs and Tac Bombers should get to move 6 after T5 or 6