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Has anyone ever considered designing a 3d printable battle box replacement? I’m thinking that may be a good solution that would be much more durable than the cardboard version. I’ve never designed anything for printing so not sure how difficult it would be.

@The-Captain
I used 3mm thumb nuts drilled out to fit 3mm acrylic rods. I used a number of 3d printed jigs for cutting the rods, assembly of the stands and gluing the magnets. If I remember later I’ll attached some pictures of the jigs/stands

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Setup complete. Plating against chatgpt now and it made some horrific mistakes. My Italian navy destroyed the British Mediterranean fleet in turn 1 😂

Now that my indomitable son-- lover of the color blue and therefore of France, bless his mistaken heart-- has worked his way up to playing Anniversary with me, I’m finally going to tackle the addition of France and the creation of a plausible 1940 setup. I’m reviewing our years-old now discussion about France on a middle-weight map and hope to land somewhere constructive in the end.

Objectives:

Placate my child and get some blue units and TTs on the map! K.I.S.S. Add chioces/fun but maintain middle-weight status. Maintain loose tether to historical reality.

Project has three areas of focus:

France-related map updates France-related rules updates Neutrals updates

Map updates:

For France we need… erm… France, so:
– Recolor & roundel France. Split France? Maybe.
– Split off, recolor & roundel Syria
– Split, Recolor & roundel French African colonies/protectorates
– Recolor & roundel French Indo-China Thailand
– Add New Calendonia and/or French Oceania for flavor Other updates:
– Fix wonky Germany & Poland geography (unrelated but annoying)
– Japan '40 vs '41 ownership changes

Rules updates:

Need (very) simple rules for the inexorable fall of Paris. I like GW36’s dieroll mechanic wherein you roll for TTs and individual ships to see what happens. Rolling Dice is Fun!™ Either make Vichy = Germany, or else create (very) simple Vichy vs. Free French rules wherein Germany commands Vichy and the UK commands the FF vis-a-vis US command of China.

Neutrals updates:

Assign Neutral TTs IPC values on map Create simple Neutrals rules ala simplified G40/AA1914. Potentially recolor/de-roundel Neutrals as required for 1940 setup.

Finally, TT unit setup details and balance.

For historical references I’ll use some close to hand websites:

WW2 Day by Day:
https://www.openculture.com/2022/11/watch-world-war-ii-unfold-day-by-day-an-animated-map.html

French Empire in 1945 (and 1939):
https://mapoftheday.quickworld.com/posts/the-french-colonial-empire-in-1945

French Empire Year by Year:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CV6K0qNX8

The Western Aleutian Islands were supposed to be in Sea Zone 4.

I know this is quite old, but I would love an SVG file of the map at a decently high quality (high enough to distinguish roundels and text). If needed, you can email it to me.