@Narvik
Here’s a first attempt, let me know what you think about some of these. The “Optional Rule” units have two versions each, one from the rulebook and another version with a twist.

Column Legend:

Rule: where did this unit/rule come from?
o OOB = Out-of-Box, straight from the rulebook
o OPT = From the “Optional Rules” section
o OPT+ = same as above but with a twist
o VAR = Variant (new/additional units)

Nation: Which nations can build this thing. Yellow/Green boxes show where these units have been added to this nation as part of Optional or Variant rules, respectively.

Unit: Unit name

$/A/D/M: Cost, Atk, Def, Move

# / t: How many of these units may be purchased each turn (sometimes different for each nation e.g. medium armor)

# tot: How many of these units total are allowed on the board (sometimes different for each nation e.g. trucks)

Notes: Rules etc.

New abilities:

Armored = when this unit is selected as a casualty, roll 1d6. On a 1-3, this unit is damaged. On a 4-6, this unit is destroyed. This unit repairs any damage automatically at the start of it’s owner’s next turn.

Air Transport = This unit may transport 1 non-tank land unit or 1 supply during the non-combat phase (only), ending its movement in the same territory as the disembarking transported unit.

EDIT:
I’m working on a rebuild for the reference charts to make this prettier… bear with me

@barnee I was just reading about these not long ago; looks like a few hundred were made but as one would imagine it was a bit of a lumbering beast with underpowered French engines (6 of them) due to equipment shortages in Germany and a relatively short range of 1000mi or so. Still, carrying a Panzer IV…! What a monster.

@Narvik said in Adding Tiger Tanks and ANZAC Infantry to the Reference Charts:

@vodot

How about the “Axis Advantage” Air Transport?

That would be awesome, I’ll take a look at adding that as well. I do have a few more ideas about mixing in Light and Medium tanks as well, particularly since we already effectively have these units in the form of the French and Italian tanks.

Thanks to Cap Tain Gee for the turn 1 playthrough!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4tDaLVqrqw

new map cartography, oil centers, real neutral armies/navies ( not just infantry,) D12, NO National Objectives, Real Tech Chart, start 1939, not 1940, USSR then All axis and rest of allies move sequence, remove NCM, add Rail Movement, Atomic Weapons, etc

Starting where I left off with AA50, here are The North Sea Route and the White Sea-Baltic Canal. For the WSC on the G40 map I also added Lake Ladoga and moved Leningrad to where it belongs on the coast of the Gulf of Finland/Baltic Sea. I’m going to experiment with a 2/3 smaller font for map features like this, let me know what you think.

Provisional Rules would be the same as AA50:

White Sea Canal
If the USSR controls Leningrad and neither Sea Zone is hostile, then during the non-combat movement phase the Soviet player may choose to have up to one naval unit with IPC cost <9 in either Sea Zone 127 or 115 take the “White Sea Canal” between these two Sea Zones. Taking this route uses the entire movement allowance of the moving ship.

North Sea Route
If the USSR controls both Nenetsia and the Soviet Far East and neither Sea Zone is hostile, then during the non-combat movement phase the Soviet player may choose to have up to one naval unit in either Sea Zone 127 or 3 take the “North Sea Route” between these two Sea Zones. Taking this route uses the entire movement allowance of the moving ship.

Unless they are being transported by the transiting naval units, all land and air units completely ignore the presence of the White Sea Canal and the North Sea Route.

Previews:

Overlays:

@CentralCommando yeah it’s pretty funny, can’t catch 'em all. Unlikely this was misspelled on the playtest materials but you never know, and lots of mistakes happen when you enter production and reduce the number of eyes on the final review.

I’ve been a playtester and given the green-light on a final review of pre-production material… only to immediately have players call out multiple uncaught mistakes in the production run. Frustrating but inevitable.

@Titus said in Modular G40 Map Overlays:

@vodot Just as I sent my standard map out for printing! You bully! Looking forward to your work! I finally have a global setup and am working my way through my first game.

@Titus I’ve just sent out this file to be printed a bit larger than OOB. I made it using Tojak’s map as a template. Do you have any advice on uploading images that look good despite the dimension limits on this site?

Haha, well, take some time with the OOB map first and then let me know what you’d like to try as far as tweaks go.

RE: image uploads, I’ll echo @CentralCommando’s words above: I think the pic you uploaded there looks terrific for a preview, just like your AA50 version; for full size hi-res printable map files you would need a google drive share etc.

@CentralCommando said in [AA50/Anniversary] Modular Map Overlays - Splitting Australia, the Balkans, and Sea Zones; adding Cairo, Malaya, Singapore, Rio, Cape Town, Recruitment Centers and tons more!:

@vodot YYEEAAHH!!

I’m definitely giving them an Infantry unit and a Submarine off the coast. You did this pretty fast too!

Speaking of setups, do you have any starting setup for these map overlays, or do we just have them for visual flair? Both are fine, and sorry if you already addressed this.

Good work as always!

Thanks! Short answer on setups, yes I would like to do that.

Long answer, it’s a goal of mine to roll setups as well, but I have enjoyed just letting people bash it out in their own imagination/sense of balance.

Most people that use these are probably only going to use a handful of changes they really like, and for most of these onsie-twosie overlays you can just split units between them where a territory has been subdivided or add an infantry and it’s going to be fine. The worst cases would be where units are getting split and then also attacked in their (now much weaker) setup positions without the chance to be consolidated. There are some SZs in particular where this could be a problem.

@barnee said in G40 Map Overlays:

@vodot

Hi vodot

Make Columbia border the Carribbean the way BlackElk did with UHD

I hadn’t seen that map from Black Elk, I’ll take a look thanks @barnee!

@CentralCommando well either way, here you go, my first G40 overlay :) Absolutely zero work on my part for this one- a copy-paste right from Tjoek’s raw map file.

Candian Western Canada!

EDIT:

I found the offending version of the OOB map, complete with Honolulu in the wrong place and all of Hasbro’s other hilarious geographical shenanigans that Tjoek and many others worked so hard to document and correct :)

“Copyright 2012 HASBRO” in bottom corner.