I have two banners in my garage printed by them long ago. They are holding up very well, but of course I am not playing on top of them……

Vistaprint has all kinds of coupons they send ya once ya buy from them. Get the picture uploaded (full bleed) on to a medium banner. Put it in your cart. Then keep trying the different coupons until ya get the half price one. Brings it down to $17

With the banner in your cart click on the vistaprint link from your email. Go check your cart and see the price of the banner. If its not good - try another email and check again. I do this a lot with vistaprint. I can get lots of free postcards and other stuff from them. The trick is you have to watch the shipping. While they may give you 10 things for free and 3 for half price - the shipping goes up for each item (i guess to make up for the freebies). But some coupons give free priority shipping. So that takes care of that.

The map should in now way fall apart. Its printed on a heavy vinyl……  unless the printing comes off of course. But worth a try.

I will see if lowes or home depot can cut a piece of thin plexiglass. That might work. Only thing is storing a big piece like that… Maybe 2 pieces put together would work…

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I was gonna bring one of IL’s maps to staples or the like for printing. but then it occurred to me that i use vistaprint for a lot of things. They always send me codes and coupons……

I have had banners done from them before. the map might be nice on a vinyl banner. So I had them print one.

48"x30" came rolled up - not half bad. The material is very strong and should last a while. I can roll it up to store. I might have to either put something on the corners to make sure it lays flat or possibly something underneath the map - like velcro stuck on to a weight or even the table (I will be using a fold up 6 foot plastic table to be playing on.

Anyway one from a printer like staples might be a bit better - but not for the price. I got this one printed and to my door for $17 !!!  So that price takes away any negatives there might be and i get to use a bigger map then the one that came with my 1942 game - win win!

Picture from my cell phone - will take another one when its set up on a table down the road. I just finished unrolling it right here so you can see the edges not flat yet…

http://www.mediafire.com/imageview.php?quickkey=scaurl8h4dat9ad&thumb=4

Yeah i was gonna print one of the maps, I hate playing on squeezed small maps and thye general concensus was the 42’ map that comes with the game is terribly small!

But maybe you are right - let me see if my girl likes playing A&A before printing a map up.

I use to play the original A&A must be 20 years ago. Had one or two variations of the game at the time and a better printed map also. But that was a lifetime ago.

Just recently my girl has started playing a lot of risk with me. She is getting into it a lot and thought I might introduce her to A&A for a more in depth game.

Unfortunately I had no clue what all went on with the game over the years. Man some of the versions are lots of money. i know out of print and all but still!

I see the 1942 version for cheap (enough to see if my girl will play A&A!)…… would buy 2 of them to get enough pieces but would like a better map.
I see all the downloads and one of the main guys posts here. Grabbed them all just to be sure. I have the 42 game versions on the way.

Question is - what map works (which file) best with the stock rules of 1942? I want to get the file off to staples and have them print a nice bigger map. But not sure if I can use the anniversary edition map or any other with stock rules. Or stick to the 1942 corrected map?

Last question - 24x36 a good size to print to for the game board?

oh and hello all :)  :-D