AARHE 1939 map and rule files

This is a just a 1 page guide for people play a game with only some of the ideas.
Issues like infantry is simplified to 3 and 4 IPC. Hence I tried to note that this is not the actual rules.

I guess that means it shouldn’t be called a “quick start”.
Duno if its possible to do a quick start. I am guessing it’ll end up so long that you might as well read the rules. The core part is down to just pages 4 to 18.

We have a few options we could try.
I’ll try this next: compress the rules into outline mode and without tables.

I can’t find an opacity setting for watermark in MSWORD.

Compared to pdf versions you posted, the watermark is very light.
Compared to doc versions you posted, its the same.

The image looks much darker. (You can extract the image it by saving to htm format.)

The scale is 65% at the moment. I can increase it to 68% before it cuts off. But then it doesn’t matter if it cuts off, it just gives you full screen borderless feel right?

Hello all!

I have downloaded the maps for this…but none of them seem to show the IPC values of the territories. The VP locations are there, but no IPC.

Does anyone have a list of the values?

Thanks in advance,

Chris

@Imperious:

thats because you don’t have Illustrator CS2 or adobe reader or you saved it as a PDF. The files are also in PNG format. look for Tekkyys latest post.

Thanks, Imperious Leader…but I have checked all the posts in this thread and can not find a PNG link to the 1939 map, just the AL ones.

Tekkyy, can you please PLEASE post the 1939 map in PNG format? I would be in your debt. Thanks

PS…I found the September 24 version of the 1939 map in PNG, have any changes been made since then? Thanks again.

Chris

@miccal99:

I have downloaded the maps for this…but none of them seem to show the IPC values of the territories. The VP locations are there, but no IPC.

Does anyone have a list of the values?

The file is in illustrator format. Acrobat can open it but it won’t display everything.
Here is a png export version.

2007-11-27 PNG version
http://img264.imageshack.us/my.php?image=20071127aarhe1939mc4.png

i printed out both my file and yours. they are the same, except the top of your file has this unsightly line on top…so its actually perfect, except for this line…its very slight however.

I also printed it out today. In black and white it looks ok. No faded or washed out feel.

also the 1942 rules scenario is really short. perhaps theirs something left out? perhaps we need to redo the set ups so they are similar to the 1939 scenario and add them?

Its short because its not a big variant like 1939. Originally it was just to for OOB style game with Italy as 6th player.

Obviously we don’t want to repeat what we did with 1939. There is no point.
This scenario should be different from the other two (standard and 1939).

I am thinking OOB level of territory division. Still add Italy and Australia division.
But on a realistic map, historic IPC (truly leave OOB balance behind us), realistic setup…

Or a smaller project would be to remove quick hack of +10 IPC to Germany with something better. Continue as OOB style game with Italy as 6th player.

@miccal99:

PS…I found the September 24 version of the 1939 map in PNG, have any changes been made since then? Thanks again.

Yep.
Use the PNG I just posted.
Its 2007-11-27.

The PNG looks small but its 7200x3600.
PNG compresses better than JPG for cartoonish art.

Illustrator has a “maximum bound” for PNG export.
After trimming away the hidden junk below the white boxes, I can do 100dpi. I can’t do 150dpi.

You can do higher res with BMP and JPG but that needs a lot more RAM.
I’ve got 2GB.

This is why I said earlier we should investigate why some icons show up and others don’t.
It doesn’t happen just with PDF, but also when opening the illustrator file with photo shop.
I’ve tried many intermediate file formats (that illustrator can save in and photoshop can read)

In Photoshop and ImageReady I can do higher res export.
Preferrably we want 300dpi.

Or….can you set a print area in illustrator and just export that particular area?
Then maybe I can do 300dpi exports in bits.

So whats your take on the 1942 Italy scenario?

I am sugguesting these changes.

Moutainous:
add Sinkiang, Japan, Italian East Africa, Algeria, Western Canada, Mexico

Snowy:
add Yakut, Evenki National Okrug

Terrain bonus:
defending land units’ +1 bonus in mountainous/snowy now for first cycle of combat only

Topographic map
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4b/World-map-2004-cia-factbook-large-2m.jpg
Temperature map
http://www.climate-charts.com/images/world-temperature-map.png

Exisiting Mountainous:
Southern Europe, Norway, Persia, China, New Guinea, New Zealand, Gibraltar
(neutrals: Switzerland, Spain, Turkey, Afghanistan, Mongolia, Peru, Argentina)

Exisitng Snowy:
Soviet Far East, Alaska, Greenland

Existing Terrain Bonus:
defending land units’ +1 bonus in mountainous/snow all cycles of combat

Dicussion with Jen and Cyan.
http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?topic=11016.0

The benchmarks were
% high mountainous
% extreme mountainous
population location

Reducing it one round is fair.
It also makes realism mistakes less amplified.
But no excuse to ignore realism mistakes.

Why are Japan and Italian East Africa not good for marking as mountainous?

Oh I see. So thats fine then.

Realism wise, no problems.
Gameplay wise, potential unbalance but reduced to one cycle already.

Overall, do you find Axis or Allies stronger?

like

Axis
*Germany makes use of tank and air changes
*Japan makes use of VC infantry raising

Allies
*Fleet operation easier
*US/UK Joint landing