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@Imperious:

Use coins?

total investment: 1 roll of dimes, 1 roll nickels, 1 roll pennies

total investment 7.50 and you can even latter buy lunch with it.

You can buy lunch with it LATER. Thats funny.

Yes,
The Vichy and free French are battling it out.
This global game is pretty massive.
We like playing it though.

Panzer keepers, IL had a template I used and changed roundels to fit my needs.

Great work!  They look awesome

@Himilayas:

Nicely done Coach, what type of paint did you use on the figures?

I am using Vallejo paints.
I do use a spray primer before I paint them.

@coachofmany:

I also need Pillboxes

Here is a link from another forum about Pillboxes/blockhouses:

http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?topic=18136.0

Ok, this thread is about you now.  Going to lock this one too?

turn the decal sheet 180 ( upside down and print)

@Monroe:

http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?topic=12841.15

This should take you the right place.

There is a Mediafire link on page 2 where you can download an excel sheet of set up charts and rules.

–> YOu want to download the July 09 version and you want to check out my posts on page 2-3 which make a few reivsions to the rules in the July 09 file.

I found a lot of info on the net including for Royal navy warships but don’t remember the sources.
You can also found info with world war II books.

Good luck.

Dora

Dora was the second gun to be produced. It was deployed briefly against Stalingrad, where the gun arrived at its emplacement 15 kilometers (9 miles) to the west of the city sometime in mid-August 1942. It was ready to fire on 13 September. It was quickly withdrawn, however, when Soviet encirclement threatened. When the Germans began their long retreat they took Dora with them. Dora was broken up before the end of the war, being discovered in the west by American troops some time after the discovery of Schwerer Gustav.

In February 1942 Heavy Artillery Unit (E) 672 reorganized and went on the march, and Schwerer Gustav began its long ride to the Crimea. The train carrying the gun was of 25 cars, a total length of 1.5 kilometers. The gun reached the Perekop Isthmus in early March 1942, where it was held until early April. A special railway spur line was built to the Simferopol-Sevastopol  railway 16 kilometers (10 miles) north of the target, at the end of which four semi-circular tracks were built specially for the Gustav to traverse. Outer tracks were required for the cranes which would have assembled Gustav.

The siege of Sevastopol was to be the gun’s first combat test. Installation began in early May, and by 5 June the gun was ready to fire. The following targets were engaged:

* 5 June
          o Coastal guns at a range of 25,000 m. Eight shells fired.
          o Fort Stalin. Six shells fired.
    * 6 June
          o Fort Molotov. Seven shells fired.
          o The White Cliff: an undersea ammunition magazine in Severnaya Bay. The magazine was sited 30 meters under the sea with at least 10 meters of concrete protection. After nine shells were fired, the magazine was ruined and one of the boats in the bay sunk.[3]
    * 7 June
          o Firing in support of an infantry attack on Sudwestspitze, an outlying fortification. Seven shells fired.
    * 11 June
          o Fort Siberia. Five shells fired.
    * 17 June
          o Fort Maxim Gorki and its coastal battery. Five shells fired.

so they we not fired at london. Their collective contribution is totally negligible to anything represented in AA, but add armies of them as you like.

I had someone paint my Chinese but pulled the project and started painting them myself. They painted the Chinese Communist with Black Uniforms, I left them but they should be a blue.

Yes, communist uniform was dark blue and sometimes the pant was dark gray.
Nationalist uniform was light beige and dark tan for the officers.

Photo 1 = Nationalist http://www.mediafire.com/?rlwtnmgykwj
Photo 2 = Communist http://www.mediafire.com/?4nyqvzdgjmz

@jeffdestroyer:

Someone will make a larger Map if the 1940 Europe game does not have  big enough territories to hold pcs.
The crunch has occured in Europe in the past

Yes, this is my concern as well. But no worries. As we have seen in the past, if there is a big enough issue with TT size and enough people complain, our talented artists here at AA.org will produce some beautiful jumbo maps for us to print out and all will be right with the universe.

You talented folks know who you are  :wink:

as we are learning now, 1940 is an easier year to set up, because the Axis and Allies are a little more clearley defined

Try using ANZAC pieces to represent France on the AA 50th board

France gets ….

France, Morocco Algeria, French West Africa, French Central Africa, Madagascar, and French Indochina.
A french infantry in Trans-Jordan to represent Syria, and a french canadian infantry too.

If paris falls on the first turn then at the end of the victorious nations turn (Germany or Italy) do the following. Roll a die, any French units AND/or territories (that do not contain other allied units) convert to axis units if they are the able to be reached from france by any route in the number of game spaces shown on the die. If other allied land units are present (UK) then those french units remain free french. French naval vessels are scuttled IF they convert and vessels of any other nation are present (including the allies)

On a roll of a 1 Germany gets the French Mediteranin fleet (Destroyer and Transport) and the french atlantic fleet (if the uk player took its units there as casualties and only french vessles remained after combat)
On a roll of a 2 they also get Morocco Algeria
On a roll of a 3 they cant claim any more units because there are no elegible units 3 game spaces away from france
On a roll of a 4 french west africa converts to the axis, syrian french do not convert because there are UK units there.
On a roll of a 5 french equatorial africa also converts
On a roll of a 6 Madagascar also converts.

under my files i made these. They are all public files under mediafire

I decided to use this Roundel as Communist China instead.

I just did that for Flashman, because he feels their is some 'historically accurate roundel to convey territory control" and there is not. There is no correct roundel in terms of accuracy because simply air force roundels were not used on army maps to indicate where a nations control is over parts of the globe. Air force roundels were only used on the wings and fuselage of planes.

So the interpretation of these items can be anything. The only accurate interpretation of a control marker would be the national flag.

It has little to do with all these various interpretations of which air force roundel is better than or more accurate than another one. To reality they are all equal. My post was to demonstrate the ‘mystique’ around such items is an illusion.

Yes, i saw it today, thanks! +1 for you!

I looked at your rules, I thought they were good. I have only one problem and it is with Canada, they produced a ton of goods and shipped lots of equipment to many parts of the world, aircraft, tanks, destroyer escorts, men, .
Canada should be producing more than Australia, India, South Africa.
I would like to see the Commonwealth fixed in AAA games.

I just bought some mini’s from Panzerschiffe and thought I’d paint them a flat, consistent AA color to use them to experiment with some ship-variation house rules.  Does anyone know what the best colors for matching the current AA country colors are?  Also, since the Panzerschiffe mini’s are in some sort of epoxy, what sort of paint should I use?  (Something easily sprayable would be ideal, if it works, as I’m no artist, and not concerned with detailing, only consistency and making them look like they “fit” in with the other pieces.)