Posts made by Stauffenberg

Stauffenberg

Hey YG,

sorry to hear that it is so much work to do… thought that you just needed to put the cards on a printable pdf-file…

Looking forward to those research breakthrough cards, might convert them to the set I modified from your other cards.

Best wishes,
Bernhard

Stauffenberg

Very gently and kindly pushing this ;)

Stauffenberg

Hi YG,

any news about these PDF files? :)

Cheers,
B

Stauffenberg

Thanks a lot 8-)

Stauffenberg

Kind reminder, I am still interested to do it :wink:

Stauffenberg

@taamvan:

I apologize that you misunderstood my intentions. If you said re-write the rules for Warhammer 40K to make them clearer, I would say give it a shot because it needs it. But I feel that the rulebooks for AXA are solid (and would cite the very low number of errata/FAQs as compared to the past) and most confusion comes from not reading them (was referring mostly to myself, not you). Do whatever you want.

Hi Taamvan,

the rules might be solid, but as YG said, the rules for Global are scattered across 2 rulebooks. Here in Germany, the fanbase made a single, merged Global rulebook (in German of course) and it helps A LOT!!!

Reading and understanding the rules is one thing, not very hard to do. BUT remembering all of them and bringing them into context with each other is a lot more complicated and the practical experience playing Global shows that there a lot of small “problems” occuring due to the fact that the rules are clear, but complex and complected.

Just look at the FAQ here on the board and the rather huge amount of videos about Global, they show that there is a need for information beyond the rulebooks. Or at least for a rulebook that is not divided into 2 parts, with a few more examples giving practical advice.

Watching videos on YT also tells you that most people play Global wrong here and there, just because they misinterpret the rules. YG’s short briefing videos are very good examples of situations where most people play wrong, and there are many more such situations.

Also, the game material lacks some aids that other games in this class come with, which facilitate gameplay a lot. Mostly quick reference cards, information on the gameboard etc etc.
I have no clue how people can play Global without National-Objective-Cards, I would never be able to keep track of every nations NO’s without them. Or who does seriously play Global without paper money?

And in the same manner, I would really miss the merged Global rulebook I have access to. It instantly answered many many questions I had after reading through both the rulebooks of Europe and Pacific, where you have to go back and forth, switch between the books etc etc. It is just a huge mess.

I would at least ask WotC if they allow to make a merged rulebook. I mean they apparently allowed it to the German A&A club… if they refuse, YG can still do it the way he intends to do it now, which will however take a lot of time and might never really be finished. Very huge project…

Best wishes

Stauffenberg

Hi everyone,

I would just like to add another idea for you to make these cards… usually these cardboard sheets can be printed on both sides.

So if you would like to have a colored backside for the cards instead of just white, go ahead and choose a picture or pattern for the backside. As it is quite difficult to have individual pictures aligned for each card to be printed exactly on the same position on the backside, I just went ahead and used a camo pattern to print on the backside of the whole sheet. That way, all the cards are kind of randomly camo colored on the back which gives a nice touch to them without the trouble of alignment.

I chose a WWII “Flecktarn” (mottled camo) pattern used by the Germans, which I found on Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flecktarn
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flecktarn#/media/File:SS_Platanenmuster_Sommer.jpg

You can of course use other camo patterns like US woodland:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Woodland

Wikipedia and/or Google picture search are a good resource for high resolution files to use for this kind of application.

I added an already edited file of that German Flecktarn ready to use to print on the backside.

Best wishes!

Stauffenberg

Hey folks,

after asking YG for his permission, I am offering his cards (without houserule cards) in a slightly modified version.

They are still mainly YG’s work and he remains the author of them.

I just changed the font to a mil stencil type. While doing so, I revised some of the headlines and texts, the latter mainly to fit into the box with the new font and also to “correct” minor things that differed from the rulebook. I also corrected the “Egypt-mistake” that YG pointed out on one of the Italian NOs.

Last but not least, I rearranged the cards on the printing sheets so that they line up and are therefore a lot easier to cut out.

To get regular sized cards, print both sheets onto DIN A3 or Ledger/Tabloid format paper.
To get mini cards, print the sheets onto DIN A4 or Letter format paper.

I had mine printed on heavy cardboard (300g/m²) at a local copy shop, it is not necessary to laminate them if printed on such stiff cardboard.

Here they are, enjoy:
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/73i177gnnkt29/A%26A

And many thanks to Young Grasshopper for providing these in the first place!!!

Best wishes

Stauffenberg

Thanks, I did not see those 4 pipe factories there before, In the category listing, only the 2 pipe factories show up.
No 1 or 3 pipe factories though :?

Anyway, as the price is only for 10 pieces and you need 12 minor and 11 major ICs for the initial setup alone, you would have to buy 20 2-pipes and 20 4-pipes, which would be 50$ plus shipping. That is just too much in my book, I mean you get a whole 1940 game for less than 70$ at Amazon, shipping included.

Well, HBG wants 95c per factory piece, if they ever were in stock… I’d buy some 30, which would also be relatively pricy… and I don’t see those factories coming if HBG strips them from game boxes and only lets you buy 12 per day. That said, I will have to figure out something else. If only I knew someone with a 3D printer :roll:

If I ever find something good that is reasonably priced (which will probably be selfmade), I’ll post it over in the customizations board.

Best wishes

Stauffenberg

Nothing wrong with a little crafting, skill and motivation are not the limit here…

But the family leaves me little time for things like these, so I am always looking for solutions that are less time consuming. I mean, it’s not only buying the stuff, its finding it at stores, looking for it etc etc.

Also, I like consistency… those grey factories for me just are THE A&A factories. The first A&A I ever played has them, the old A&A Europe. I just prefer that a lot over pieces from other games. That’s why I am so exited of just using some of those grey factories to make minor ICs. So it is my first option for several reasons, but of course alternatives can easily be found and made.

Just not Lego ;)

Best wishes

Stauffenberg

Those are the ones YG meant…

I have yet to find them sold individually. Risk Revised was marketed under different names in different languages. The German version is called “Risiko Deluxe (neu)”

Danke Lars, Stratak sieht gut aus. I didn’t know there was such a shop around here. They are just around the corner outside of Frankfurt, maybe they’ll even let me choose and pick up the stuff at heir location.

I still find Bob Michaelson’s solution of sawing&hacking some of the grey factories to smaller grey factories the best. It just looks right!

Best wishes

Stauffenberg

Thanks to all for the recommendations… allthough I find Shapeways to be very expensive :-o

Thanks also for posting HBGs reply, I was going to ask as well.
“Hard to get”? That’s hard to believe as it is nothing but another piece of plastic…

Oh well, I guess I’ll move on to something else for factory pieces. Yet to find a shop that ships to Europe where I can find those Risk Revised factories.

Stauffenberg

Oh I see, thanks for the info… as I still find that to be the best solution, I might still do it.

Using a Dremel tool with a cutting disc might speed up the process. Shouldn’t be too bad then.
Now I hope that HBG gets those grey factories back in stock soon…

Best wishes

Stauffenberg

Hi,

I haven’t been into Global for too long, in fact I have only recently begun playing it, but after a few rounds of it I kind of grasped what is useful and what isn’t.

For instance, when it comes to pieces, you are fine with the stuff that comes in the box and are definately able to play. However, depending on your playing style, there are some things that will greatly faciliate your gameplay.

So far we did not need additional units, so you should be good there.

As for the dice, in theory 1 single dice would be sufficient, but then bigger battles would take forever. That said, the more dice, the easier and faster it gets. But what you want is not only many dice, but different dice. There are 4 different values for a successful attack/defense, which is the max value on the dice you roll for that unit. So if you do an attack with different units, you probably wanna roll for all of them at the same time to speed up the battle. Same goes for the defenders…
So group up your troops to units that attack at 4 or less (Bombers, Battleships etc), 3 or less (Tanks, Fighters etc), 2 or less (Artillery, Destroyers etc) and 1 or less (Inf, Mech Inf) or if you are defending, do so accordingly with the defence values, and use different dice for them all in one roll.
So yes, get some dice, but get some that are different to those that come in the box.
For example, for those huge infantery battles in Russia, we use the small dice from A&A 1914, and there are many of them ;)

One more thing that is really more than nice to have is paper money. Get the Battle Bucks from HBG, they are nice. FMG also has nice paper money. Tracking IPCs with pen&paper sucks.

I am also really not fond of the cardboard markers for the factories that A&A 1940 comes with. They are ok for air&naval bases, but for the factories, I tend to overlook them. I much more prefer actual factory pieces, which are also available at HBG from earlier A&A games. You will need pieces for both minor and major factories, which are not available. But you can go ahead, buy a bunch of the same pieces and then mark or paint some of them to represent minor or major ICs, as you wish.

Something we also did from our 2nd game on was to use little pieces for those victory cities, also available at HBG. We use black ones for axis cities and red ones for allied cities. They go onto the board at the start setup and once they are conquered by the enemy, that enemy takes them in his possesion so it is instantly visible how many victory cities already have been conquered by both sides. As this is what determines who wins the game, and in our first game we overlooked it for a while when the game actually already was over, we felt that it was very useful.

Other than that, be aware of the fact that the rules are very complicated for new and unregular players, as there are so many things to be observed, many little extra rules, many excemptions from the basic rules etc.
To keep those in mind, unfortunately there is nothing out there that you can buy.

However, gladly enough, there is material made by the community and published in this board that you can download for free, print, cut and maybe laminate, which will greatly help in not loosing track of all those rules.
A good example is to have cards for the National Objectives, which are available from a few guys on this board.
There are also custom game boards which you can have printed that already have additional info boxes for turn sequence, combined arms rules etc etc…
I also plan to use setup cards in the future like those made by Minor Threat.

I also do have a custom rulebook that merges the rulebooks of Europe and Pacific to a version that omits the single rules and focusses on the Global rules, but it is in German (thanks to the German A&A Club). However, people like Young Grasshopper are already on it and might release such a rulebook in the future. It does greatly help in getting all the rules, because as it is now, you practically have 3 rulebooks (Pacific, Europe and the Global section in Europe) from which you have to extract those complex rules. That results in almost constant uncertainty about the rules, the size of the 1940 Global FAQ on this board tells it all. I think that a dedicated Global rulebook is the key to better understanding the rules.

These have been the most important points in my young experience. There are a few other things that can be purchased or done that either help with gameplay (like remaining-movement-markers for planes or IC damage markers), with clarity (like using actual infantery pieces for Neutrals) or which just beautify the game (like using little blast markers for damaged capital ships instead of laying them to their side), but all of these are optional by all means.

Last but not least, you need to carefully study the rules. As reading a rulebook before even playing does not really promote comprehending those rules, you are much better off if you watch some of the tutorial videos on Youtube, especially those by Young Grasshopper. They are more than great and can be found on his channel “The Cliffside Bunker”. It will take a while to watch those, but it is well worth it. Watch the first video, then read that section in the rulebook, then watch the next video etc.
You will both learn what is meant by what is written in the rulebooks and also where to find that rule in those 3 above mentioned rulebooks.

Ok, I think that’s it. Sorry for the long text, I hope you got to this point. I am sure other people have other things to add, as my experience as mentioned above is still premature.

Best wishes and enjoy this great game!!!

Stauffenberg

Hi Dafyd,

thanks for your reply. I should have clarified that I am not looking for the major ICs because I know that the early versions of Europe and Pacific have those grey ICs. I own Europe 1999, so I already have them.

They are also visible in the picture that Bob posted, but in the tray above those, there are these tinier grey ICs that only have 2 “sections” and are overall smaller. I think they are a perfect match to the larger pieces of grey ICs that are available at HBG and that can be used as major ICs.

I could not find them on HBG or FMG though and have never seen them before…

Best wishes!

Stauffenberg

Hi,

I just browsed through this thread and in post #2 on page 1 by Bob_A_Mickelson, I noticed he uses small grey factory pieces for minor ICs… that is exactly what I am looking for.

Where can these be purchased?

Best regards

Stauffenberg

YG,

did you already ask WotC about it? I guess that would be the simplest way to be on the safe side with this project.

As I told you and you posted above, we in Germany have a Global rulebook that is merged out of the Europe and Pacific rulebooks and translated to German.

I don’t know if the German A&A Club (DAAK) did it or if WotC is ok with that, but I guess they are.
That rulebook is a simple merger between the two separate rulebooks that omits all the parts relevant for playing Europe or Pacific. So it does not even contain enhanced descriptions as per the FAQ or advanced explanations from this board. However, it already is a HUGE help as it sucks big time to browse through two different books to find a certain rule when playing Global.

In fact, I think that WotC should have provided a downloadable rulebook for Global long ago and I really don’t understand why they are not doing it. They should be and probably actually are grateful if someone from the community does the job on their behalf and with their approval.

I love that German Global rulebook, but it is probably useless for most people around here. And I would certainly appreciate a Global rulebook in English that contains all the hints and advices from the FAQ and the board. Who wouldn’t? ;)

So I hope you get approval by WotC very soon and start on this project. Would be great!!!

Best wishes

Stauffenberg

Hi everyone,

I am new to this board and this is my first post 8-)

I just wanted to say thank you, these cards are great and most of the other stuff on this board is as well, especially the map and NO cards by Young Grasshopper and also his YT-channel. Not to mention all the stuff Cyanight does and many others around here…

Anyway, again these setup cards are great, I think they are the best out there as they contain not only the setup, but also Politics&NOs and all those little pieces of information that we want to have at hand without the rulebook resting on the table: turn sequence, tech chart, unit reference chart etc.
And the design is just great.

As Scharpess pointed out above, there seems to be just 1 item being different to 2nd Edition, which would be that 1 less British INF in Egypt. I did not check everything yet, but it seems to be the case.

Minor Threat/SehxualPanda, since you seem to be still active in this board, would it be possible for you to fix that one thing?
Another point I noticed: I am not sure for some of the other nations, but the German background photo seems to be from WW I.
Just a minor thing, but would it be possible to “upgrade” to a WW II photo? I attach 2 examples to this post…

I know you said before there won’t be any more updates, but maybe you can change your mind about these 2 items?
I would gladly do it for you if you sent me the layered photoshop files, I just can’t do it with the .png files you offer for download. PM me if you are interested.

Best regards,
Stauffenberg