Posts made by vodot

@Stuka80 @newenr85 Welcome to the site, guys! This is a great community to hash ideas, find opponents, info, strategies, and customizations for your favorite A&A games.

@Stuka80, you asked about posting - go to the “categories” button at the top of this page:

…then scroll down to find your game, and fire away with the “New Topic” button. If it’s a house rule or customization, you can post your ideas in those two forums and then “tag” it with the game(s) you’re houseruling or customizing. Feel free to fire me or @Panther a DM if you have any more specific questions, and looking forward to chatting with you!

Hi all, here’s a map fix for the Sardinia misspelling*. Printing this at 400DPI should give a perfect match to the board. Cutout the parts you want to keep/remove.

@Hansolo88 said in Deployment to Cyprus:

@Running-Away

Oh gosh I never noticed Sardinia being misspelled on the map! Just a proofing error I guess. Lucky that it’s a very unimportant territory for the game.

Sardinia fix. :) Print at 400 DPI.

Hi all, here’s some artwork to add two versions of the Tiger Tank (one with header, one without) and two versions of ANZAC Infantry (OOB + variant) to the Reference Charts. The four ANZAC Infantry divisions kicked ass in North Africa, so I thought a little stat boost would be a small but fun way to reflect that.

For the ANZAC Infantry, as I mentioned there are two versions.

The original Optional RAW is:

ANZAC Reinforcements
The United Kingdom player may deploy one UK infantry
each turn from the Reinforcements Zone directly to the
Indian Ocean convoy sea zone.

Version one just puts a visual on the reference chart to remind the Allied player of this optional rule.

If you use the “variant” version of the ANZAC Infantry (A3/D4, not supported by artillery) then there is FINALLY a reason for those larger ANZAC Infantry sculpts in AAP40.2… turns out they’re just better! Verbose rules for the variant version below.

I printed these out at 5.3" wide on some vinyl sticker paper and voila.

ANZAC Reinforcements (variant version)
The United Kingdom player may purchase and deploy one
ANZAC infantry each turn from the Reinforcements
Zone directly to the Indian Ocean convoy sea zone. If you
own a copy of Axis and Allies: 1940 Pacific use the ANZAC
Infantry pieces from that game; otherwise you may denote
these units in whatever way you choose.

ANZAC Infantry always attack at 3 (they are not further
boosted by Artillery) and defend at 4. A maximum of 4* of them
may be present on the board at any given time, and they may
not be represented or multiplied by chips. They are otherwise
identical to regular UK infantry in every way.

*One for each of the four prominent ANZAC divisions in North Africa: the Australian 9th, 6th, and 7th, and the 2nd New Zealand.

As a note, for anyone else looking to modify the Reference Charts or Map, it appears that the new font for Territories, Cities, and Unit Type is Barcelona (either ICS or EF), headers are Impact, and most other text appears to be Times New Roman.

Enjoy!

@FranceNeedsMorePower thanks for the heads-up, very interesting video!

@Krieghund Katyusha?

@FranceNeedsMorePower Hey, looking into this variant for my son and I’s next North Africa game! Any sign of that rulebook yet, other changes from the version above?

@Titus Awesome, I’m always looking for new tools and shortcuts.

@Titus wow! looks awesome! what was your process? FYI the “full download” link appears to be for your “normal-style” map, not this new version.

v10: G40 Lite including France, aligned Neutrals, Canada, ANZAC, Communist China, and all the recent additions up to 11/18/2025

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mBgt6KSM7oIE3uNmuESPSU2F1AhicYMG/view?usp=sharing

Adding two new full-size maps with the latest:

v10: G40 Lite including France, aligned Neutrals, Canada, ANZAC, and all the recent additions up to 11/18/2025

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mBgt6KSM7oIE3uNmuESPSU2F1AhicYMG/view?usp=sharing

v11: AA50 with all the recent additions up to 11/18/2025.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NIKcU-L3Hzh2jpF113TMyvAaE1GNZEQg/view?usp=drive_link

@Titus awesome!!

@Simnos @throgmorton these are looking incredible, guys, can’t wait to see the finals

@Imperious-Leader yep, smack in the middle of SZ 11 would be 3 spaces from EUS, Brazil, and ECAN. More than just SBR, it’s a good central point of threat for the Axis… on my map, transports here could drop troops at 5 different victory cities (Rio, D.C., Ottowa, London, Paris). I also make Neutrals less risky to capture with my G40 Lite rules.

Ships at SZ 32 off the Maldives, for that matter, can reach 4 VCs (Cairo, Cape Town, Calcutta, Singapore). Similar to the US getting a big force at the Carolines in a traditional AA50 game— nightmare for Japan; or either the US or Japan unconstested at Midway with some of my changes to the Pacific Coast/Hokkaido/Aleutians.

Malta, Azores, and Maldives :)

I set Maldives at the intersection of SZ 31, 32, and 35 to make them as interesting as possible. 1 IPC because I would imagine removing Ceylon as redundant.

@Titus I can’t wait to read the writeup!

Yes, I find Italy in particular far more fun to play with these simple changes.

I rarely find Italy able to balloon to great power status, even with these changes, but the explanation is probably in the fact that you lost Germany to the UK. It’s the UK’s job to rein in Italy, but a knockout blow to Germany is always the highest UK priority.

@Argothair said:

…The whole premise of this project is that it’s possible and useful to add a few more carefully chosen territories to create a middle ground between AA50 and Global.

I would say there is a part of this project that is very focused on mechanics- certainly the collaborative portion between you and I. In that sense, this is true. However I also have a lot of fun here seeing historical and ahistorical things become possible, and even more just enjoy the outlet for my creativity in the service of this community.

But along those first mechanical project lines:

That said, not every request to add territories to AA50 will make sense.

…this is certainly true.

but Vodot is too much of a softie…

Haha, this is so true that I’m doing this work with my therapist right now… Watch me equivocate in this very post!

@Titus said:

I think Vodot likes making the overlays/modifications

…and this is also definitely true :)

Regarding these changes in particular, mechanically, the Azores have been interesting as an “unsinkable aircraft carrier” for axis aircraft, with Malta a corollary for the UK. But yes- both these and the Maldives are gravy. like a lot of what I’ve done in this thread. :)

@Imperious-Leader I’ve drawn up Malta; it’s especially hard in AA50 because of geographical arrangement of the OOB board. Physical space in the Med is really tight, even on an enlarged map.

That being said, I’m working in it, and the Azores too :) Maldives I haven’t started yet.

@Titus Awesome! Looks like no Irkutsk, in that version?

Oh - also, this looks like it got misposted into the “G40 Lite” thread, instead of the “AA50 Overlays” thread.

@Panther, would you be willing to move Titus’ post above and this reply over to my (confusingly similar) AA50 Overlays thread?

@Titus I think ‘scenario’ setups like this are awesome. They have an asymmetrical impact— double transport cap is a big swing in favor of the allies— but for players who get bogged down into static openings I think mixing it up is good :)

Can you link a pdf of the cards?