Your browser does not seem to support JavaScript. As a result, your viewing experience will be diminished, and you have been placed in read-only mode.

Please download a browser that supports JavaScript, or enable it if it's disabled (i.e. NoScript).

Historical Board Gaming Marines weathering

Customizations

402

S

Sarge
last edited by Sarge

Which one looks the best?
( from left to right )

1. No weathering # 2. Mild weathering # 3. Heavy weathering
1 Reply Last reply
Reply Quote 2
G

General 6 Stars '22 '21 '20 '19 '18 '17 '16 '15 '14 '13 Customizer
last edited by

No. 3 for me. Hit the boots and hands and helmet. Gleer almost gone. Nice !
G S 2 Replies Last reply
Reply Quote 1
G

General 6 Stars '22 '21 '20 '19 '18 '17 '16 '15 '14 '13 Customizer @General 6 Stars
last edited by

@SS-GEN

I"m into trains so weathering has to go on everything.
1 Reply Last reply
Reply Quote 1
S

Sarge @General 6 Stars
last edited by

@SS-GEN thanks
1 Reply Last reply
Reply Quote 0
D

DMcLaren '20 '19 '18 Customizer
last edited by

Agreed- #3 Heavy looks best. That one has a few landings to his credit, from the looks of him.
S 1 Reply Last reply
Reply Quote 1
S

Sarge @DMcLaren
last edited by

@DMcLaren thanks I agree he must be a veteran.
1 Reply Last reply
Reply Quote 0

Featured Topics

League rules idea: mulligans for patrons

Guadalcanal Tournament at Strategicon (Los Angeles) Feb. 17, 2024

T-shirts, Hats, and More

global 1940

176

anniversary

1914

1942 2nd ed

tips&tricks

bm3

video

axis & allies

Suggested Topics

E

Axis and Allies Civil War Game

Customizations
• • • EARMARK

10

5
Votes

10
Posts

2.6k
Views

E

@drz

Thanks for the feedback. Most of the rules for the game were crowd sourced from those actually playing an axis and allies style game. The game was never intended to be a historically accurate representation of the American civil war…as are the axis and allies WW2 games. They are themed games. You are welcome to try it out on Steam tabletop simulator if you have it before casting any kind of judgement. It really is a fun game that challenge players. If you want more historically accurate games, you’ll have to look elsewhere.
U

Completed my 1984-87 Original Board Enlargement Project

Customizations
• • • UncleDrinky

1

3
Votes

1
Posts

255
Views

U

H All!

Thanks for the help in creating my original enlarged map board. I found an original scan of a board online (I cannot remember the original creator, but I searched for “High Res Axis Allies Map.” If you were the creator of this, thank you very much! Kudos!

I wanted to do a 4 foot by 6 foot enlargement. The original file wasn’t high res enough for that, so I worked on it in Photo Shop by increasing the size and dpi. I’m pretty much a novice to Photo Shop, but it wasn’t that difficult after some google queries on how to do it.

Once I had it enlarged to the size and resolution I needed (beware, this apparently can bog down your computer if you are using a basic MacBook), I then went about finding a print shop. I ended up going to BannerBuzz.com. I’d never heard of them before, but their website was easy to use and the price was good.

I put my 4x6 map on vinyl, had it laminated, and had it shipped to me for about $50 total. The process took roughly ten days from me uploading the file, choosing the options, proofing it, and having it created and delivered.

The map looks great. in retrospect, I might have increased the resolution just a touch more, but I’m pretty pleased with it. If anyone wants the file, I can upload it or send it to you - Remember, it is a 4’ by 6’ version of the 1984-87 map, as in the original Milton Bradley version, and if you are a newbie to this, I can answer questions that I learned through the process.

Thanks to all the people who assisted in this!
M

Plugging Your Games

Customizations
• • • Militarized Milkmen

1

1
Votes

1
Posts

298
Views

M

Hello everyone! I made a thread where people can put in plugs, adds, etc. for A&A games you guys have developed, are developing, think need attention, or are just cool. I’ll get the ball rolling by plugging my own.

We’ve all slapped a bunch of American and Soviet control markers on the board and called it the Cold War. Some of us have even developed alternative setups for existing a&a games so that it fits the Cold War. However, no one, to my knowledge, has developed a completely new game of A&A specifically for the Cold War, until now. The game @GEN-MANSTEIN, @MonsieurMurdoch, and I are developing does just that. We have four different powers to choose from, event cards to make stay fresh no matter how many times you play it, national advantages and other optional and additional rules to spice the game up for even the most veteran players, a tech tree to put most MMO’s to shame, polar regions for people to pointlessly obsess over, and best of all, plenty of nuclear weapons. Were even working with Historical Boardgaming! However, we are always looking for more playtesters and help in general. If your interested please DM me!

Also check out the Chinese Civil War thread. It’s got a ton of great stuff! See @MonsieurMurdoch for more information.
E

Historical Board Gaming

Customizations
• • • Erocco

18

0
Votes

18
Posts

2.2k
Views

H

Everything is ok, tnx.
D

Axis and Allies 1940 Custom Global Board

Customizations
• • • Drfrozenfire

6

0
Votes

6
Posts

1.9k
Views

D

@CWO:

@Drfrozenfire:

I’m going to probably print a large transparency map based on the board I’ve been designing based on satellite imagery that is in some serious high definition.

If you’ll be using satellite imagery as the basis for your map, will you be keeping the real-world proportions of the land masses and oceans? The Global 1940 game map, for practical game play purposes, distorts both the size and the shape of various geographic areas.

No, I’ve taken the satellite images and enlarged certain areas so that there is room in places like Europe for the large scale of battle that often takes place there. When I’m done with the map file, I’ll post it here if you’re interested
D

Giant A&A Spring of '42 Board

Customizations
• • • Duff

2

0
Votes

2
Posts

810
Views

C

@Duff:

I tried to post photos for you but this forum won’t let me post links for some reason.

Because of the forum’s anti-spam software, you need to have a certain minimum of posts (I think it’s 10 but I’m not sure) before the forum gives you the option to post attachments.
A

Western Front Blowup Board

Customizations
• • • Admiral_Thrawn

2

0
Votes

2
Posts

628
Views

J

That is awesome looking. Great job! :-D
S

Enlarged A&AR game board. Check it out!

Customizations
• • • sabaka26

19

0
Votes

19
Posts

6.9k
Views

S

this first pic is what i had been using, i manually printed things out in one page sections via “print selection” command and pieced them all together, and laminated them with clear packing tape. Ultimately it proved to be a little larger than the default gameboard like I wanted, but still sloppy looking and with some bumps here and there which complicated unit placement due to tipping or sliding:

it was larger enough than the default board that things in europe didn’t seem so crowded anymore, but shoddy looking still, and that can wear on the nerves.

So I finally said enough is enough, and took the map pdf file on a jump drive down to minuteman press in London Kentucky and had them blow it up and laminate it….it costed $118 IPCs U.S. Dollars.

Its 2 foot by 3 foot, and gives us plenty of room for stacks. I got tired of kenny’s fat fingers knocking over my german stacks and scattering them across europe…he says my money was wasted because “those damn germans were going across europe anyway I just helped you out is all”.

but here it is:

99

Online

17.5k

Users

40.1k

Topics

1.7m

Posts