Posts made by Tjoek

Just a quick update. I’ve found a nice color profile close to Intreprids color corrections so I’m happy with that.

I did however found some new things to fix after feedback from my gaming group. The most important changes:

• Move the sea border between 108 and 109 as well as 118 and 119 a bit more to the left to have more distance between the border and EIre so you can easily spot that 109 and 119 are connected

• Put French Central Africa on 2 lines instead of the OOB 3 lines so that the IPC value can move down out of the Sahara area

I have some more reviews coming in. So fingers crossed it won’t be a full rework  :-P

@bgugs:

Well at least I don’t have to decide between yours and Siredblood’s.

Just collect them all  :-D

@Baron:

I cannot even imagine numbers of hours it took to do it.
And this not include time to report about it.

I raise my hat.

What a job!

Thanks! It really is hundreds of hours. I don’t even want to know the exact number…

This is exactly how Germany lost in our second game ever. It learned us the devastating effects of can openers  :-D

I haven’t seen any warping of my boards (yet).

For the records: my box arrived undamaged, although I still have to check the playing pieces.

Just after I posted my message I noticed you had a single post with a large image that linked to postimages where I could see a large image 10.000 pixels wide. That worked flawlessly, but now the post is gone…

Nevertheless this map will become HUGE in the number of territories. China alone seems over 30 territories! How long do you expect this game will take to play?  :-D

@bgugs:

When I upload to dropbox it doesn’t allow a preview. Do you want me to share the link for you to download it?

Just send the link for download or use something like mediafire to host you image on the internet.

I’m finalizing the color balance on my map! Looking forward to hear what you all think of the final map.

In the mean time I’ve made a difference of the original map file I started working with januari last year and my end result. It looks very impressive knowing that everything that’s not white has been manually changed. It shows far more then I expected it to show as I’ve re-centered far more SZ numbers then I thought I did:

A long but definitely not a complete list of things that I have changed:

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: Anhwei and Hopeh

• Correct names of Russian territories:

  • Evenkiyskiy -> Yenisey

  • Yenisey -> Evenkiyskiy

  • Yakut S.S.R. -> Irkutsk

  • Timguska -> Tunguska

• 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

• Removed Mobilization Zones and Axis and Allies logos from both corners

• Added Italian Fasces roundels

Yes Finland has access to SZ 127.

If you have the 2nd edition boards the income tracker is obscuring this but the answer is yes.

@ShadowHAwk:

@Tjoek:

@AK_Grown:

So our Russian ally built a fleet in the Black Sea and decided to do landings in Greece, supported by a constant stream of landings of UK troops from Africa.

That’s really a strange play. You cannot cross the Turkish Strait as long as Turkey is neutral, so the Allies would need to capture Turkey first aligning all other strict neutrals to the Axis early in the game.  :-D

But maybe the Allies did crush Turkey, was this done with the Russian fleet?

You can use transports to invade greece from there though. Basicaly the same thing germany can do with caucasus.

Lol you’re absolutely right. Never noticed that Greece borders the Black Sea on the map.

@Baron:

Please…
:-)

Because you asked so nicely  :-D

Not decided yet if I will incorporate this fix in my main map file, but I will be able to share this as a separate version.

@Baron:

Did you discuss about a way to indicate correct name first and corresponding name below in a less predominant way or different color?
Exemple:
Irkutsk
(Yakut SSR)
Or
Irkutsk
(Yakut SSR)

No we didn’t as the aim for this map is to be as clean as possible even removing most of the neutral standing army markings etc.

An minor update before I release my first G40 map file later this week.

I’ve centered many country names that where close to board edges and hence could not be centered well in the original design of the map. This includes the following territories:

• Europe side of the map:

  • Denmark

  • Northern Italy

  • Sardinia

  • French Central Africa

  • Nigeria

• Pacific side of the map:

  • Siberia

  • New Guinea

  • Queensland

  • New South Wales

  • Victoria

  At the same time I’ve replaced all roundels with more vibrant artwork as well as placed Calcutta in the right location on the map.

  See below for two examples of the work done.

  Centered Denmark
  

  Calcutta repositioning
  

After consulting with my game group I’ve decided to leave the Russian country names as is and only fix the typo Timguska into Tunguska (in fact it’s already fixed on my map).

The reason for not fixing the other issues Baron Munchhausen addresses is that those changes are major in the sense that it will impact strategy discussions on my map vs the rest of the world playing on the OOB boards or TripleA. So only for ‘compatibility’ reasons I leave the names as is.

Thanks for sharing it anyway Baron Munchhausen!

@AK_Grown:

So our Russian ally built a fleet in the Black Sea and decided to do landings in Greece, supported by a constant stream of landings of UK troops from Africa.

That’s really a strange play. You cannot cross the Turkish Strait as long as Turkey is neutral, so the Allies would need to capture Turkey first aligning all other strict neutrals to the Axis early in the game.  :-D

But maybe the Allies did crush Turkey, was this done with the Russian fleet?

Thanks WinterAdler,

Maybe the difference is in how the material is finished. The foam board I’m aware of is actually cardboard with foam in between and what you seem to describe and what I get from the website you shared the material you have printed on doesn’t have that card board finish. Is that correct?

How sensitive is it to pressure? Like someone leaning on the table and putting his wait on the board?

@Baron:

On “Evenkiysky” or “Evenkiyskiy”, it seems there is an english version and a russian name.
Google goes with one “i” while the older map use two “i”.
https://legacy.lib.utexas.edu/maps/commonwealth/soviet_union_admin_1974.jpg

In that case I would go with the older map and the OOB name with the extra ‘i’. The game plays in older times so in my opinion should reflect older names when possible.

@Baron:

Don’t forget to correct this old “Timguska” which does not exist, for “Tunguska”.

Yeah thanks for reminding I just marked it on my todo layer in my graphical editor  :-)

@Baron:

I also agree with Patchman on that one, Sakha is at the good place:

Yakut S.S.R. should be renamed Irkutsk (or Irkutskaya Oblast) because it is exactly where Irkutsk would be on a map of Russia.
Sakha is just another name for Yakut SSR, which the native Sakha language name for the territory in question, just like how Ohio from a Native American name or that Erie, Pennsylvania is from the Erie language and is also the name of the county surrounding it.

Irkutskaya Oblast seems the more exact name.

Irkutsk was the administrative center of the short-lived East Siberian Oblast, which existed from 1936 to 1937. The city subsequently became the administrative center of Irkutsk Oblast after East Siberian Oblast was divided into Chita Oblast and Irkutsk Oblast.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irkutsk#History
In addition, there is no unit on this TT in G40 setup.

Looking at the size of Yakut SSR the name should be short in order to not make it look weird. So Irkutsk seems the practical way to go. BTW Internet seems to often refer Irkutskaya Oblast to Irkutsk Oblast, but even that is to long for the size of the region on the map to fit in.

@WinterAdler:

Hey neighbor Tjoek,

Now you start calling us neighbors  :-P :-D

@WinterAdler:

The survace of the map is like a mousepad, so you can wipe off damp cloth and don’t really need some protect.

Could you share the German name of the material? What you describe here doesn’t look like the foam board I know.
Or share a link to a German website. I had some German courses back in high school so I most likely can read it anyway