Hey IL,

thanks for the quick answer, but I think you misunderstood the initial question a little. Of course I will go into a copyshop and get this done professionally and sure I know this will cost something, which is not the problem at all.

The main question is, what should I tell the guys at the copyshop how to print it, you know? Should I opt for a laminated poster or for something entirely different?
Basically what I’d like to know is: How should I get your map printed in order to use it as a perfectly good gameboard?

Hey guys,

first time poster here, found this place about a week ago and have to say - great way to get info on A&A!
Now, I am a new player and played A&A42 last week for the first time at a friend’s (darn, why did it take so long for me to find this game?) and have to say - I am utterly impressed.

But, as already mentioned here many, many times, the gameboard just felt far too small to really represent this global conflict and thats about the only thing I disliked about the game (you know, besides leaving out techs and stuff, but these are rule-related issues which can easily be fixed).

Now, with this issue in mind I found out about AAP&E 40 an thought - hey this is it, larger map, extra fun, what could go wrong? And I was considering shelling out the 160 bucks (€, as it is over here in Germany) and get this great game. But after finding and reading some reviews, I am not so keen anymore on buying it at the moment, for various reasons.

Instead, I stumbled upon the great maps (literally!) of IL and besides giving out a big THANK YOU to him (impressive dedication, kudos to you IL!) I was wondering why I should not just get A&A42 for 30 bucks and pay some more to get a great map and be done with it.

My question though is - how did you print out IL’s maps, for all of you who did? And by this I don’t mean ‘Go to a copy shop and ask for it’, but rather:

• What size did you print it?
• Did you print it in one piece? Or make several smaller versions and glued/tied/ductape them together?
• How do you store such a big piece of inventory? ;)
• What material did you use? Photo paper, usual paper?

Point of these questions being: I thought at first to get a 140x70cm (sorry guys, metric system over here) version over here in laminated photo paper (260g), which I would need to shell out about 50 bucks or so… and while this would be a perfectly fine investment for such a great game, I wouldn’t want to be ordering it only to find out that it is totally useless for playing on it because, I don’t know, maybe its not perfectly flat or something.

That’s why I am turning to you to find out how you overcome these problems and what soultions you opted for. Thanks in advance!

– Saint Elmo