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@The-Captain
I used 3mm thumb nuts drilled out to fit 3mm acrylic rods. I used a number of 3d printed jigs for cutting the rods, assembly of the stands and gluing the magnets. If I remember later I’ll attached some pictures of the jigs/stands

Hey everyone,
I finished customizing my copy of AA50 and wanted to share what I’ve done.

1. Custom painted pieces, I painted every nation to unify each nations color scheme as the OOB pieces have a lot of color variation. I have included a picture of the different paint color/products used. The only big change was Germany from black to gray as I wanted my new oil pieces to stand out.

2. Custom tracker boards and magnetic roundels. I designed and printed the labels on sticker paper, laminated and applied them to metal sheets. I modeled and printed the bases they stand in as well. The magnetic roundels are my design as well with the same method applied for the stickers.

3. Oil. I modeled and printed the oil barrels and derricks myself and have been working on some house rules to include them in the game to add some strategy and more money to the board.

4. Roundels, I 3d printed the chips and applied the stickers. The image file is on this site somewhere and I will comment with the link, I did have to modify and convert the file a bit to make it workable but it includes the fuel and breakthrough images as well. These are all double sided and stand out much nicer on the map

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5. Flight stands, I made these with my own design from 3mm acrylic rods and 3mm thumb nuts. I designed a number of 3d printed jigs for cutting the rods and gluing the magnets and rods and bases together. I may be listing these for sale if I can get the process streamlined enough to make them competitive in pricing.

6. Magnetic planes and carriers. I drilled and magnetized all of the planes and carriers to make them much easier to pick up. The carrier magnets are strong enough to go through one chip which is great.

7. Custom storage trays. I designed and printed trays for the nations (us has an extra slot for the china troops) and for the storage boxes to add better organization and more slots for storage.

That’s all the main things I did! Please let me know if you guys have any questions about anything.

@vodot I did look through the thread and I’ve come up with a rule set unlike anything there I believe. I’m still play testing and might change them farther for balance.
Axis & Allies Optional Rules - AA50.pdf

@Pvt_Griff Thank you! Let me see when your done! Now just cointemplating buying a global game and getting BBR or something going. Daunting task for sure.

@vodot I have printed and assembled a bunch of your overlays on my map! They look great and I’m excited to play test them. Would you be able to make an overlay for a carved out Scotland territory on the Uk? The fix for Hokkaido is awesome so the US can actually land stuff there. Would be cool to see the same for the UK to give a sealion a possibility in this game.

I made these by printing on Matte Vynil sticker paper and applying it to a 3d printed shape .5mm thick so they should be durable. I blue tacked them straight to the board.

@vodot No rush at all! I’m sure by then I’ll have cooked up some other hair brained scheme to waste my time on this game :D I should spend my time just playing instead! Anyway ill include some thoughts about a game I’m playing with a friend here after the game is over to see how the overlays affect play. I also did come up with a setup modification rule set for the set of overlays I applied which I will send to this thread soon.

@TitusJames I just looked through the first post in this thread and it looks like my rules are strikingly similar to another poster here https://www.axisandallies.org/forums/topic/23944. I just read the post and found how similar our lines of thought were from 11 years ago!

Hey folks,
This is my first post to the site and I’ve recently started my customization journey with AA50. My best customization yet is this magnetic tracker board set. The roundels are 3d printed by my design with press fit magnets. The boards are just common steel sheets with a label applied that I designed. The bases are another self designed base for angling the sheets and storing the extra roundels.

Let me know what you think!

(https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1zllLFe2Offr3GEfH0-JTNgcGUK6Ha_oL?usp=sharing)

New rules!
I have drummed up some new oil rules for AA50. I’ve attached some photos of an in progress round 11 game to show the stark difference in the amount of troops on the board. I find the game is more fun with more peices but thats a hard task to accomplish. The Oil rules here seem moderatly balanced but I haven’t been able to play test them heavily yet. I did model the game peices myself as well and would be happy to share the files if anyone wants them.

The basic concept is locations on the map start with oil production facilites. If you man them they produce oil which can be converted to money at IC’s at the start of your turn. The current setup allows for up to 88 more IPC’s per round which makes a huge difference.

Axis & Allies House Optional Rules - AA50.pdf

@TitusJames

@Pvt_Griff the metal prints are just full sheet labels I printed and laminated then applied to sheet metal. I designed the magnetic roundels myself to fit 6x2 mm magnets.

I’ve included a full PDF of various rules I’ve made for my “Deluxe AA50”. Noted below is the section regarding setup changes for this specific set of overlays.
Axis & Allies House Optional Rules - AA50.pdf

Map overlays have been added in the following areas:

1. Australia - split into two territories +1 UK. (Units placed during setups on East Australia).
2. United Kingdom - Scotland added.
3. Borneo/East Indies - Borneo has been split into Celebs and Borneo, East indies split into Java and Sumatra +4 UK.
   (1941 Setup - no units) (1942 Setup - 1 UK Infantry on Borneo +3 UK, 1 JPN Control Marker on Java, Sumatra, Celebes. 1 JPN Infantry on Java, Sumatra, Celebes +1 JPN).
4. French Indo China - Malaya has been added (Singapore Victory City Added) +2 UK.
   (1941 Setup - 1 Infantry) (1942 Setup - 2 Infantry).
5. India - Ceylon added +1 UK. (1941 Setup - no units added) (1942 Setup - 1 Infantry).
6. South Africa - Cape Town Victory City added.
7. Brazil - Rio Victory City added.
8. Italian Africa - Swapped to Italian East Africa under Italian control +1 ITL -1 UK.
   (1941 Setup - 1 Infantry) (1942 Setup - 1 Infantry).
9. Italy/Balkans - Sicily, Sardinia, Greece added +3 ITL.
   (1941 Setup - 1 Infantry on Greece) (1942 Setup - 1 Infantry on Greece, 1 Infantry on Sicily).
10. Morocco/Algeria - Countries split into Morocco and Algeria +1 GER. Units from Morocco/Algeria moved
    in setup to Algeria (1941 Setup - 1 Infantry on Morocco) (1942 Setup - 1 Infantry on Morocco).
11. Egypt - Cairo Victory City added.
12. China - Chinghai split into Xinjiang and Tibet, Chinghai added +2 Territories CHI
    (1941 setup using optional setup on “China Power Level Change” optional rule add 1 infantry unit to each new territory) (1942 Setup - Same as 1941 setup).
13. Soviet Far East - Siberia replaces SFE which is moved to the right +1 RUS.
    All units to be placed in SFE are moved to Siberia (1941 Setup - 1 Infantry) (1942 Setup - 1 Infantry).
14. Yakut - Irkutsk added +1 RUS. (1941 Setup - 1 Infantry) (1942 Setup - 1 Infantry).
15. Alaska - Aleutians added, no units for setup.
16. Midway - 1 IPC value added +1 US.
17. Wake Island - 1 IPC value added +1 US.
18. Japan - Hokkaido added +1 JPN (1941 Setup - 1 Infantry) (1942 Setup - 1 Infantry, 1 AAA gun).
19. Caroline Islands - 1 IPC value added +1 JPN.
20. Iwo Jima - 1 IPC value added +1 JPN.
21. Manchuria - Jehol added +1 JPN. (1941 Setup - 1 Infantry) (1942 Setup - 2 Infantry).