AARHE: Map files

Flashman · Jul 26, 2007, 9:12 PM

Sorry but as the map for this breaks ALL of my golden rules, retaining ALL of the unhistorical borders of AAR, I simply cannot entertain the idea of playing on it. Shame, as there might be some good stuff in the rules. First impressions, and all that.

Imperious Leader · Jul 27, 2007, 2:27 AM

We made it sole for that purpose.

You would not like the older version… it had 5,000 ports and 1,000 different unnecessary pictures i got from the internet and i used a $30 buck program to draw all the thick pixilated shoddy rough lines that had no aesthetic value to an accurate map whatsoever. It even had lots of ^^^^ for mountains and ***** denoting snow territories. To top it off it had 500 different flags for nearly every nation on earth just in case someone would forget what the flag for Slovakia actually looked like.

tekkyy · Jul 28, 2007, 1:14 PM

Yeah AARHE isn’t a map. In fact, we avoided map changes for the project.

As for the rules, theres little reason why the bulk of it can’t be used for other strategic level maps.

What old version are you talking about Imperious? Another project you did?

Imperious Leader · Jul 28, 2007, 4:38 PM

no that post was true sarcasm on flashmans maps. Take a look at them. :-D

Flashman · Jul 28, 2007, 9:58 PM

Such ingratitiude after all the trouble I went to drawing a simlified map that even IL could understand:

http://elbowmaster.com/web1/flashman/1942/Complete1942junSimplified.jpg

Imperious Leader · Jul 28, 2007, 10:08 PM

The outline of the land masses are horrible. redo.

The Soviets need to be earth brown

China needs to be red

Neutrals need to be white or cream colored

The lakes need to the same blue as the oceans and that blue is too pale

The IPC need to be in roundels and not squares

The lines need to be thinner

the pictures need to be gone

too many clip arts from the internet

Japan looks too close to the Italians color

Italians need to be a grey green anyway

America is too bright

British color is okay but also too strong

I can see how ( actually where) you got your ideas for sea zones and how they are staggered and get larger near the poles.

Lybia is not drawn correctly

your missing rio de oro which is the most important territory on the map

Flashman · Jul 29, 2007, 2:31 AM

Japan is white - can’t you tell white from Grey? Even your chum’s map has Italy in grey, and as I’ve said there are far too many yellow/tan/orange/red/brown colours on most maps. Me colour blind - me no like. Earth brown is too close to the UK colour which is too close to tan which is too close to the sand colour…

Why should China be Red? I though it WAS red, at least “Red” (Soviet controlled) China.

Don’t see what’s wrong with “Lybia”. At least I can SPELL it correctly.

On this scale R de O is irrelevant - a worthless strip of desert best absorbed into Mauretania.

That green does look bright, this must happen in the process of converting into a net file, so thank Elbowmaster for this, plus the rather fuzzy jpeg effect.

The lakes in dark blue was a mistake - I thought you might confuse them for sea zones since the SZs are not now named; but yes it looks terrible.

The idea of the large strip at the top was because I elongated the map to widen the oceans, and it seemed reasonable to cram this with keys etc. rather than have a thin strip of a board. This isn’t necessarilly how a productuion map would appear.

I hope you’ve told Jeff to remove those B/W photos of Yankee artillery from the middle of the Atlantic on his map. Thought not.

Still, to indulge you, I’ll try the IPCs in circles; though maybe keep the IC numbers in squares for clarity.

I also did a map with neutrals in white and Japan in vomit yellow for your benefit, surely you’ve seen it?

http://elbowmaster.com/web1/flashman/1942/Complete1942junYellow.jpg

Imperious Leader · Jul 29, 2007, 6:11 AM

OK the map is marginally better… except you have some major thing with bright colors… That vomit yellow would not be bad if you picked a less bright yellow.

ON your old map you had Japan and Italy way too close in colors

Lybia does not look like any Lybia i have seen

china should be red so you can use AAP Japanese pieces form it and now they will match…plus soon its red china anyway so why not help it along?

The Soviets need to be the same color as Milton Bradley Soviet pieces… because thats the bast color for them. That revised burgundy is crap.

British Kaiki is hardly as strong a color or similar to Milton Bradley Soviets.

You should dump the squares with that anchor and put the ports inside on the territory. make the anchor white and the box the same color as the territory so we dont have to see those lame boxes and slit our throats

tekkyy · Jul 31, 2007, 11:37 AM

So um, do you wanna update the first post to include the links at

@tekkyy:

since all the yourfilehost.com links are dead?

Imperious Leader · Jul 31, 2007, 3:22 PM

Lets use your BBG links in their place. If you can get them ill change my sticky to correspond to the links.

tekkyy · Aug 1, 2007, 6:45 AM

I already posted the links earlier.

Click on “Quote from: tekkyy…” and it’ll take you to my post.

tekkyy · Aug 7, 2007, 3:52 PM

I am about to print out the map again.
The Spanish translation of your map prompted me to do some tweaks to the icons.
I also added in icons for neutral army so you don’t have to look up the table.

http://www.mediafire.com/?4y2l4bywmi4

A0 100dpi

cyan · Aug 7, 2007, 4:56 PM

@Imperious:

You should dump the squares with that anchor and put the ports inside on the territory. make the anchor white and the box the same color as the territory so we dont have to see those lame boxes and slit our throats

surprised you didn’t make buryatia a port. :lol: :lol: there are way to many of them. i aso think there are too many victory cities too.

Imperious Leader · Aug 7, 2007, 9:32 PM

LMFAO!!

tekkyy · Aug 9, 2007, 11:18 AM

Oh yeah you still haven’t replaced the links in your first post with these.

@tekkyy:

Axis and Allies Historical Edition rules version 3.0
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/fileinfo.php?fileid=23892

Battleboards, hit allocation, technology, neutrals
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/fileinfo.php?fileid=23891

AARHE 3.0 “4 maps”, standard/italy, plain/setup, A0 128dpi
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/fileinfo.php?fileid=23890

AARHE 3.0 Country Player Aids
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/fileinfo.php?fileid=23889

Actually all 4 versions (standard/italy, plain/setup) of the map still has Sahara as “Impassable” rather than “Desert” lol.

And to be easier for my print outs I might even put “Strait Interdiction” and terrain bonuses on the map too.

Maybe we should have a list of known issues haha.

Imperious Leader · Aug 9, 2007, 8:58 PM

naw … no more changes… that is done. :lol:

tekkyy · Aug 11, 2007, 12:29 AM

actually replace the dead links with these even newer links
on my ISP webspace so won’t be inactive deleted
fixed a few typos here and there (eg. UK player aid battleship was still 24 IPC, just picked it up in a game)

Standard map with setup icons neutral army and the works
http://home.exetel.com.au/cometo/20070811_AARHE_standard_with_setup.png

Battleboards
http://home.exetel.com.au/cometo/20070811_AARHE_battleboard_dogfight.png
http://home.exetel.com.au/cometo/20070811_AARHE_battleboard_landcombat.png
http://home.exetel.com.au/cometo/20070811_AARHE_battleboard_navalcombat.png

Hit Allocation
http://home.exetel.com.au/cometo/20070420_AARHE_hit_allocation_aid.png

Player aids
http://home.exetel.com.au/cometo/20070811_AARHE_player_Germany_Italy.jpg
http://home.exetel.com.au/cometo/20070811_AARHE_player_Japan_UnitedKingdom.jpg
http://home.exetel.com.au/cometo/20070811_AARHE_player_UnitedStates_USSR.jpg

Develop Weapons
http://home.exetel.com.au/cometo/20070811_AARHE_technology.png

Diplomacy
http://home.exetel.com.au/cometo/20070811_AARHE_neutrals.png

Victory City
http://home.exetel.com.au/cometo/20070425_AARHE_victory_city_aid.png

Imperious Leader · Aug 11, 2007, 1:06 AM

ok done.

tekkyy · Nov 21, 2007, 1:50 PM

http://home.exetel.com.au/cometo/20071121_AARHE_standard_with_setup.png

Updated “standard” map:
Honululu, Tobruk and Dakar VC added.
Hong Kong VC replaced Shanghai.
Astrakhan VC replaced Almaty.
Gibraltar, Argentina, Peru, New Zealand, China now mountainous.

(AARHE’s “standard” map is a map that keeps revised’s IPC and unit setup. The only border change is that Baltic Sea can no longer access Western Europe. Information are added to help new players.)