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    • RE: Sired's card deck -NOW AVAILABLE-

      @siredblood:

      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?

      posted in Customizations
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    • RE: Sired's Map project - Updated- 4/16 - files available see first post

      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.

      posted in Customizations
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    • RE: Custom Heavy Bunker

      Really nice models that stand out well with a rather simple paint scheme. Well done!

      posted in Customizations
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    • RE: Tjoek's 1940 Global Map file and setup charts (Updated May 30th 2018)

      @Dralnu:

      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 :-)

      posted in Customizations
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    • RE: Tjoek's 1940 Global Map file and setup charts (Updated May 30th 2018)

      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  :-)

      posted in Customizations
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    • RE: Sired's Custom Cash

      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

      posted in Customizations
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    • RE: Chips colors: OOB vs HBG

      Thanks for all the reactions! Could someone with both original and HBG chips make a picture for comparison? That would be really helpful.

      posted in Customizations
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    • Chips colors: OOB vs HBG

      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!

      posted in Customizations
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    • RE: How large are the battle bucks from HBG?

      That looks really nice! Do you work at the printing shop? Or where do you order these quick test prints?

      posted in Customizations
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    • RE: Clarity of a few things.

      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.

      posted in Axis & Allies Global 1940
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    • RE: Tjoek's 1940 Global Map file and setup charts (Updated May 30th 2018)

      @GeneralHandGrenade:

      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

      posted in Customizations
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    • RE: How large are the battle bucks from HBG?

      @siredblood:

      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.

      posted in Customizations
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    • RE: Tjoek's 1940 Global Map file and setup charts (Updated May 30th 2018)

      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!

      posted in Customizations
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    • RE: Sired's card deck -NOW AVAILABLE-

      @siredblood:

      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?

      posted in Customizations
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    • RE: Upgraded complex

      @Bravehart:

      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.

      posted in Axis & Allies Global 1940
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    • RE: Sired's card deck -NOW AVAILABLE-

      @siredblood:

      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.

      posted in Customizations
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    • RE: Tjoek's 1940 Global Map file and setup charts (Updated May 30th 2018)

      @siredblood:

      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:

      posted in Customizations
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    • RE: Tjoek's 1940 Global Map file and setup charts (Updated May 30th 2018)

      @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’.

      posted in Customizations
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    • Tjoek's 1940 Global Map file and setup charts (Updated May 30th 2018)

      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.

      posted in Customizations downloads
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    • RE: Sired's card deck -NOW AVAILABLE-

      @siredblood:

      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!

      posted in Customizations
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