@hengst This house rules forum is full of ideas. To avoid scripted games you need a varaiety ways to win or lose a game in a reasonable amount of time ,eg 8 to 12 rounds.BBR and 3G40 are rulesets that encourage you to win by achieving various victory objectives.(not just victory cities)
3G40 changes turn order,merges Anzac into UKPacific,and sticks pretty close to oob rules.BBR is more complex than oob and is real popular.Both are designed to play in 1 day and to be able to declare a winner.
DK's Hybrid Axis and Allies Map and Rules
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Thanks Hambone - hope you find them interesting!
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The Progressive Arms research chart and rules that go with 7.3 above can be adapted to any edition of Axis and Allies, and can now be purchased at HBG…
Click the link here to see my explanation video and purchase…
http://www.historicalboardgaming.com/Progressive-Arms-Research-Chart-_p_2750.html
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Terrific stuff! I am adapting some of your rules, along with the rules layout, for my games as well. I also love (and subscribe to) your YouTube channel.
How did you figure out how to properly scale the map for printing? I have got a map of my own but can’t determine how to figure out proper dimensions so that it will scale to the right size when printed in a larger scale.
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Terrific stuff! I am adapting some of your rules, along with the rules layout, for my games as well. I also love (and subscribe to) your YouTube channel.
How did you figure out how to properly scale the map for printing? I have got a map of my own but can’t determine how to figure out proper dimensions so that it will scale to the right size when printed in a larger scale.
Hi Trenacker - I don’t know what software you use but with Photoshop I first set the map file to 300 DPI (Standard print quality) and then the final size I want the map to be. (in my case 58" long by 34" wide) So the map is already exactly the size I want it while I’m making it. Then I send it to the printer as is without any resizing.
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DK, any chance you have a complete map file with France split in two (other changes as well)?
I was contemplating printing this map, however after seeing your change and your reason for the change I would want to have that incorporated into this map.We have a G40 game tomorrow and we will be adding Flagships, Entrenchment chips and the Variable set up concept. Should be fun!
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DK, any chance you have a complete map file with France split in two (other changes as well)?
I was contemplating printing this map, however after seeing your change and your reason for the change I would want to have that incorporated into this map.We have a G40 game tomorrow and we will be adding Flagships, Entrenchment chips and the Variable set up concept. Should be fun!
Hi Hambone - wow - that’s cool! Let me know how things go tomorrow.
I was going to upload the map with new changes but not until we played on it first to make sure it worked well - we will play on the 30th of this month. I don’t want to have everybody downloading something that hasn’t been tested if I can avoid it.
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DK, by helping me out in Photoshop, you just made my year. I’ve been trying for months to figure out how to make my draft map print-ready. Thanks again!
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DK, by helping me out in Photoshop, you just made my year. I’ve been trying for months to figure out how to make my draft map print-ready. Thanks again!
That’s great! I hope we get to see your map when it’s done!
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Rounding out the cities on the map, which will be small(ish) circles.
DK, may I ask how you added roundels to the map? I’ve found a few online, but the resolution is ruined when I try to paste them into Paint or PhotoShop. They also usually come with white or dark backgrounds that must be removed or painted over.
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I remember some of them I used were already on IL’s map that I started with. I think I made Germany’s from scratch in Photoshop because it was pretty easy. Some of the countries you can find the high resolution square flag and then take a circle out of it.
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Uploaded the latest version 1.2 of the map we are using. This map contains the East Front territory changes, divides France in half, and gives a capital to China as shown in my “Map Patches” video on you tube.
https://www.mediafire.com/file/m7xudoypp1sqnjp/DKs HYBRID AA Map (1.2).pdf
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Thanks DK.
IMO, to be as accurate as you wish, you should compare your China map with real ones and revise names according to better geographical location. Not just follow Global one on this. Looking at AA50 map may also give you some hints about how designer try to solve some Chinese toponymes issues. When I looked at it, I’m pretty sure you can reach better compromises than Global map.To name just an obvious case:
Chongqing was also a Sichuan province municipality during the Republic of China (ROC) administration, serving as its wartime capital during the Second Sino-Japanese War(1937-1945).
Wikipedia
Sikang is not in Southern China bordering only Tibet. Chongqing cannot be the capital city of Sikang.
Xinjiang borders the countries of Mongolia, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan,Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India. The rugged Karakoram, Kunlun, and Tian Shan mountain ranges occupy much of Xinjiang’s borders, as well as its western and southern regions. Xinjiang also borders Tibet Autonomous Region and the provinces of Gansu and Qinghai.
Also, it is too bad I just noticed a misspelled Eastern Ukraine (Ukrane!)… :cry:
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Good points, Baron. To me, Chinese territory names and spelling are confusing and seem to change depending on what time period you are looking at and what reference you are using. Are they named for a landmark, a city, a region, etc? When naming Chinese territories perhaps it’s best to drop a bunch of silverware on the floor and write down the result - you get Chung, Chang, Ching, Chong, etc. lol
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@Der:
Chinese territory names and spelling are confusing and seem to change depending on what time period you are looking at and what reference you are using.
With good reason. The old Wade-Giles system for transliterating Chinese into English was replaced at some point by the current Pinyin system, which is why (to give just one example) Peking is now known as Beijing. To complicate matters further, some place names in China have changed since the Communist Revolution for various administrative and/or political reasons. I recall reading an article by an American zookeeper or zoologist who was visiting China around the 1970s or so, and who got a dirty look from his Chinese hosts when he referred to a “Manchurian tiger.” He was told politely but firmly that this animal is properly called a “Northern Chinese tiger.”
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Probably what happen for 2 different TTys bordering Kazakh SSR. on your map DK: Chinghai and Tsinghai.
2 differents systems, 2 names but refering to the same and single chinese province.
From historical accuracy, Wade-Giles system was the one use in WW2?
I just found the older thread which discussed this matter, if you decide to make a few corrections eventually (since you can totally patch up China, if you which, nice video on youtube BTW):
@Baron:
DK, on your map I see 2 TTs east of Khazak SSR in China:
1 is Tsinghai (North) and the other
1 is Chinghai (South)In fact, it is the same region named now Qinghai.
The southern region should have been probably named Sinkiang (Sikang on G40 map) or Xinjiang (modern name on Google map), if you followed G40 map.
Based on general orientation on real map, I would have named from north to south western China TTs:
North western TT Kansu/ Gansu (Kansu on G40 map / and DK’s hybrid)
Middle western TT Xinjiang (Tsinghai on G40 map / and DK’s hybrid)
South western TT Tsinghai/ Qinghai (Sikang on G40 map / and Chinghai on DK’s hybrid).Kansu is north central in China only connected to Mongolia, but it has been connected on G40 map to Russian TT (Timguska) (Tambov and Novosibursk on DK’s).
Middle TT I named Xinjiang is bordered on western side by Khazak SSR (and is the only direct access to Soviet TTs from China). (Correctly connected to Khazak and Tambov on DK’s hybrid)
Southern TT I named Tsinghai / Qinghai doesn’t have access to Khazaz SSR or other TT but it is really bordering Tibet (Himalaya).
Also Tambov is too far on West and north of Volgograd / Stalingrad.
Samara should be a better choice as name for this region north of Kazakh SSR, west of Novosibursk and bordering China on your hybrid map.
(As you had on G40 map.)
However, to have named it Novosibirsk (instead of Tambov) would have been much better.And named Novosibursk: Krasnoyarsk because Irkustk (Timguska on G40) being Yenisey on your hybrid map.
Was Novosib**u**rsk a typo error (“u” being just left of “i” on keyboard)?
Take no offence DK, your map is awesome.
I was just looking at these topographicals when I followed the leads.
If you ever update your home map…On G40, Yakut SSR was wrongly named, it should have been Irkutsk.
Yakut SSR is the same as Sakha .As noted above, Sichuan or Szechwan, etc. is totally missing on your map. However, it is part of 1942.2 map. And on G40, it is at the right place, at the end of Burma road.
@Baron:
One in particular makes me realized that essentially Krasnoyarsk and Yenisey are almost the same region. In addition, Urals mount are further west than north of Mongolia.
It is on northwestern side of Kazakh.
Northwestern of Mongolia and along Yenisey river is the Central Siberian Plateau.
It also showed than on your Map, Novo is correctly put west of Yenisey, but it is directly connected to Kazakh.
So, on your hybrid map, it depends whether which border is more important to keep as accurate. Tambov is not the more accurate to describe what is north of Kazakh but west of Novosibursk. It needs to be in Siberian plain.
The only major city on the eastern side of Urals is Chelyabinsk, aka Tankograd.
So, that region on your map instead of Tambov, should be Chelyabinsk Oblast.Samara or, in WWII era Kouibychev, is also a valid name.
It is west side of Urals on Volga river. Northeast of Stalingrad.
Also learned that Samara in 1941 was preparing to receive all of Moscow political organs to established a temporary capital in case Moscow was captured. -
If you want to correct things in China with 1 patch to be close to G40 names.
Just change names of 2 TTys north of Tibet.
From left to right, Sikang instead of Chinghai.
Szechwan instead of Sikang.Just a bigger patch in the same area.
In addition, the Burma road did not end in Sikang. Szechwan is nearer from geographical POV, and Chongqing is also Capital City of Szechwan. However, Burma road ended in Shan State or in Yunnan.
In the 20th century, as Beijing, Shanghai, Nanjing, and Wuhan had all been occupied by the Japanese during the Second Sino-Japanese War, the capital of the Republic of China had been temporary relocated to Chongqing, then a major city in Sichuan. An enduring legacy of this move is that nearby inland provinces, such as Shaanxi, Gansu, and Guizhou, which previously never had modern Western-style universities, began to be developed in this regard.[31] The difficulty of accessing the region overland from the eastern part of China and the foggy climate hindering the accuracy of Japanese bombing of the Sichuan Basin, made the region the stronghold of Chiang Kai-shek’s Kuomintang government during 1938–45, and led to the Bombing of Chongqing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sichuan#Republic_of_China
Also, along with Novosibursk which should be Novosibirsk, Buriatia should be written Buryatia.
If willing to put another patch, this might connect these 2 TTys above:I think that Yenisey should be renamed Krasnoyarsk because the territory called Yenisey on the map appears to encompass most of Krasnoyarsk Kray (Kranoyarskiy Kray) or Krasnoyarsk Territory.
http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?topic=38677.msg1588207#msg1588207
This map help see major cities and region:
http://www.vidiani.com/maps/maps_of_europe/maps_of_russia/administrative_map_of_russia.jpg -
Sounds good for the next revision, Baron - thanks!
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Thanks DK for posting the updated map! Now its time to find a printer and get rolling.
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Glad you can use it!
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@Baron:
If you want to correct things in China with 1 patch to be close to G40 names.
Just change names of 2 TTys north of Tibet.
From left to right, Sikang instead of Chinghai.
Szechwan instead of Sikang.Just a bigger patch in the same area.
In addition, the Burma road did not end in Sikang. Szechwan is nearer from geographical POV, and Chongqing is also Capital City of Szechwan. However, Burma road ended in Shan State or in Yunnan.
In the 20th century, as Beijing, Shanghai, Nanjing, and Wuhan had all been occupied by the Japanese during the Second Sino-Japanese War, the capital of the Republic of China had been temporary relocated to Chongqing, then a major city in Sichuan. An enduring legacy of this move is that nearby inland provinces, such as Shaanxi, Gansu, and Guizhou, which previously never had modern Western-style universities, began to be developed in this regard.[31] The difficulty of accessing the region overland from the eastern part of China and the foggy climate hindering the accuracy of Japanese bombing of the Sichuan Basin, made the region the stronghold of Chiang Kai-shek’s Kuomintang government during 1938�45, and led to the Bombing of Chongqing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sichuan#Republic_of_China
Also, along with Novosibursk which should be Novosibirsk, Buriatia should be written Buryatia.
If willing to put another patch, this might connect these 2 TTys above:I think that Yenisey should be renamed Krasnoyarsk because the territory called Yenisey on the map appears to encompass most of Krasnoyarsk Kray (Kranoyarskiy Kray) or Krasnoyarsk Territory.
http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?topic=38677.msg1588207#msg1588207
This map help see major cities and region:
http://www.vidiani.com/maps/maps_of_europe/maps_of_russia/administrative_map_of_russia.jpgHi DK, I found this map which might help getting straight with China. If you ever re-edit another version of your map.
From top left to bottom left,
Recent name (WW2 occidental name)
0x- Xinjiang (Sinkiang) missing on your map and on G40
1- Gansu (Kansu)
2- Qinghai (Tsinghai) twice on your map.
3- Xikang (Sikang)
4x- Sichuan (Szechwan) missing on your map only
5- Yunnan (Yunnan)then top left-center to center,
1- Ningxia (Ningsia)
2- Shaanxi (Shensi)and top right-center to center,
1- Suiyuan (Suiyuan)
2- Hubei / Hupei (Hupeh)finally, top right to bottom right (east coast of China)
1- Manchuria …
2- Guangdong (Kwantung)
3- Fujian (Fukien) but it should be Guangxi (Kwangsi : Canton) because Fukien is only north of Kwantung not south.
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