Deck has been updated with new cards, and error fixes.
If you already printed your deck, you can get the patch here : https://www.dropbox.com/home?preview=Siredblood+Card+Deck+Patch+Update.pdf
The link doesn’t seem to work. At least not on my end. It points to my own dropbox without any file downloaded or added. Could you please verify this on your end?
Nice to see more progress on this map! What font did you use for the country names? It seems very close to the actual font used.
Really nice models that stand out well with a rather simple paint scheme. Well done!
I know, you already plan 2 versions with different layers, like the standing armies on neutrals.
What features of the Ambilzi/YG map will you keep on your map? Or will you go with the plain original map? Will there maybe be more than 2 Layer Versions?
I’m working with the plain original map, because I like a clean map as a map only and have all the other stuff like battle boards, cost charts, income tracker apart from the board.
But with this ‘clean’ map as a basis, it shouldn’t be a big challenge to blend back in the naval and air bases or any of the other features from the full Ambilzi/YG map.
When I’m done working on this map, I’m more then happy to create you a blend. If you are kind enough to share me some pictures of your printed map / table :-)
After some hard work and playing our second game of Global 1940, I’ve finished Europe and have reworked Africa for 80% now. The project of reworking the great map from Ambilzi and Young Grasshopper is taking far more time then expected, but the results are very satisfying. So let me share with you the biggest challenge in Europe: Switzerland. It’s in the middle of a crease and split across two boards. And with the size of the country there’s is not much original artwork to play around with. Please let me know what you think of the results
Please note that the coast of Northern Italy as well as the crease (and text distortion) on both France and Greater Southern Germany have been fixed as well. This part of the board has given me some hard time :-)
Really cool idea Siredblood! And well executed!
The only thing I wonder is how easy they are to play with considering the color indicating the value is only visible in a relatively small area. Although you might get familiar with the images of the plane, truck and ship.
Would you consider creating a 20 note as well? I find that easy during game play, especially when nations like germany, japan and the US can have big incomes. Although that might brake with your land, air, sea theme. As nothing else then a battle ship could be on the largest note right :-D
BTW: HBG is planning to do a double sided print run in the future
Thanks for all the reactions! Could someone with both original and HBG chips make a picture for comparison? That would be really helpful.
I’m tempted to order some extra chips for Global 1940 from HBG, but I read that the grey, red and green chips from HBG are slightly differently colored then their OOB counter parts. Could someone who owns both be so kind to post a comparison picture? Just to ensure I’m okay with the difference our want to go all in and replace them all with HBG chips.
Many thanks!
That looks really nice! Do you work at the printing shop? Or where do you order these quick test prints?
Yes you can. The only limitation is that you cannot land your planes in territories you took over in your turn. As this situation occurs outside of your turn, it’s a perfect legal move to land your planes there.
South America is too long now. I’ll never be able to sail around it on one tank of gas. :-P
Well sir, buy yourself a nuclear sub :-D
Are they larger then the old AA money? (which is 2x4)
I expect a quick answer from someone else on the forum. If not, I’ll receive my HBG battle bucks at the end of this week and can check this for you.
But judging from their images on the website the battle bucks have different dimensions. They do look slimmer and definitely are not ratio 1:2.
An update on Latin America. I’ve finished the face lift.
Brasil gave me some challenges as the board fold goes straight through this country. This wouldn’t be a big problem if it wasn’t a Pro Allied neutral with the angled lines running through it. The solution to restoring those lines to run straight again was to move the bottom half of the continent only slightly downwards and fix the textures over the original fold line.
Don’t bother the white pixel noise on the right sight of the images. This is an artifact from the animated gif creater. It’s not there in reality.
As an added bonus I decided to remove the standing army symbols for the neutral countries. I will be playing with neutral miniatures and will create a setup chart similar to the other nations. So no need for this extra clutter on the board. This layer is optional, so when I’m done I will share the files both with and without the neutral standing army symbols.
Next stop: Europe!
Not bad idea, I also removed all that crap from the map. Thanks for the reply!
Glad I can be of any help. And thanks for these lovely cards.
Are you considering sharing your design files so people can change them to their needs?
Remember you can not build any complexes on any islands, except Japan, UK, and Sydney.
This is a rule that slipt my mind on our first play, altough the situation didn’t occur. Good you gave this extra explanation Bravehart! Will remember it for our next play.
I ended up with 2 empty slots, so if you can think of anything for 2 cards, lmk.
What about a mobilization area card that you can use to stage your bought units? On the normal map the unit stats are used as mobilization area, but I’m about to remove that from the map and it would we awsome to have one or two in the same great artwork as your other cards.
Cool nice job! Incase you didn’t know, im already redoing the map, not that mine is better or anything, but its totally rescaled in Europe/Africa just incase that’s something that interests you. If not, then keep going man, nice to see more map editors.
Thanks siredblood! I’ve seen your thread and really looking forward to your next sneak preview. Although I understand the reason for rescaling parts of the map, I personally don’t like it that much.
Maybe that’s just me being from Europe and disliking the way my lovely continent transformed into an obese monster :wink:
@Imperious:
How are you able to post a picture that “moves” and shows before and after?
Animated GIF as P@nter replied correctly. Using many of the online gif makers (I used gifmaker for no specific reason) it’s very simple to creat your animated gif. Next I’ve uploaded them to mediafire and that gives you a jpg link you can use when you press the “insert image” option. I actually got the idea of posting it this way on siredblood’s new map thread. He used it there as well.
@Imperious:
Next how do you remove the imperfections from the scan of the map and just retouch the artwork with either the water or land textures? What program is that CS3?
I use a great open source program called GIMP. Call if the open source photoshop if you want. But despite the tool the trick is to manual copy-paste similar looking areas and blend them in by making the edges of your pasted area more transparent. It’s a time consuming task and often takes mulitple attempts before it is ‘right’.
Added first release of my map file
LAST UPDATE: May 30th 2018
A&A 1940 OOB Maps - Cleanest Version
Tjoek’s 1940 Global Map file
Here you can find matching setup charts for both the 1940 and the 1942 scenario.
Cleanup
Removed all scratches
Fixed many issues on the map due to stitching the different scans together and/or the folding lines on the map (e.g. diagonal lines on neutrals didn’t run straight, borders where strange most noticeable in Switzerland)
Fixed issues on map due to artwork mistakes on the original board itself (e.g. water texture in Eastern United States, mirrored island in United Kingdom, Calcutta and Sidney now have a square capital marking instead of circle victory city marker, Malta didn’t have a shore, etc)
Removed adjacent to text on territories (as they are not needed in 2nd edition)
Enhanced contrast of most text
Balanced colors to hide seems between different scans, especially visible in the Pacific
Himalaya thicker stroke around text, similar to the other text on the map
Re aligned sea zone borders so that they are now lining up properly, so all lines run perfect vertical or horizontal
Re centered most of the sea zone numbers as well as the convoy and kamikaze markings
Re centered names of many territories like Denmark, Northern Italy, Mexico, Victoria, Urals, etc
Replaced all roundels with same but more vibrant artwork based of the vector images in the rule books
Aligned roundels to have equal vertical spacing with territory names
2nd Edition changes
Yukon and British Columbia are merged into Western Canada
Added border between Alberta Saskatchewan Manitoba and Central United States
Added border between Quebec and New Brunswick Nova Scotia
Made Mexico longer to end at bottom of Sea Zone 10
Correct spelling of Palau
Correct spelling of Suiyuan
Removed ‘Burma Road’ name
French Equatorial Africa layout change so it is now in line with rest of the board (first line wider then second line)
Enhancements
Removed standing army icons on neutrals
Re centered territory names of neutrals and changed Switzerland to the same font size as the other territories
Correct spelling of Chinese territories:
Anhwe -> Anhwei
Hopei -> Hopeh
Correct names of Russian territories:
Evenkiyskiy -> Yenisey
Yenisey -> Evenkiyskiy
Yakut S.S.R. -> Irkutsk
Timguska -> Tunguska
Volgograd -> Stalingrad
Samara -> Kuybyshev
Iwo Jima in right orientation
Honolulu in right location
Calcutta in right location
Removed big non existing island ‘Atlantis’ from Sea Zone 44
Replaced adjacent to text markings in sea zones with cleaner just numbers solution slightly enlarged since preview
Removed Mobilization Zones and Axis and Allies logos from both corners
Added Italian Fasces roundels
Territory/Sea Zone enlargements:
Bessarabia and re centered Western Ukraine
Gibraltar
SZ 110
Moved borders between SZ 108 and SZ 109 as well as SZ 118 and SZ 119 to the left to more clearly show SZ 109 and SZ Z119 are connected
Repositioned Stalingrad to not overlap with the border of the territory
Made Panama Canal a bit smaller so it looks more like a channel instead of an open sea
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The boards are first edition and don’t incorporate some small adjustments to the board that came with 2nd edition. Like Alberta & Central United States now sharing a border as well as Quebec and New Brunswick.
The original board had already seen tons of battles and as a result the digital scan shows battle scars and stains across the map.
Due to the difficult job of stitching together the different scans and seems in the board some malformation of territories, borders or names are present.
Didn’t mean for the delay, had a crazy week, played Global 3 times……
Playing Global is the only excuses we accept :wink:
Looking forward to see your customizations coming along!
