New Axis & Allies Global War Variant (free map)

[Raider]

Is there any chance of getting a download of the final map? I’d like to print it out and play on it – thanks.

Cheers,
Raider

PS: This map series is by far the best seen to date as for quality, detail and artwork.

[Adlertag]

I too wanna print out thisa map, man. How do I do to get the right size, only get a small map A4.

[Flashman]

Yes, lets see a full version of the map.

Regarding IPC values, you have to make adjustments for resources, like Romania’s vital (for the Axis) oil supply making it far more valuable than say Denmark, even though Denmark has a higher GDP.

Also the lack of industrialisation in places like China; it’s hardly realistic to allow the Chinese to build battleships even if they reconquer all of China from Japan and have a whopping great IPC income.  In fact, as this was a war between industrialised powers, I really don’t see the case for China being a “power” in it’s own right.  I prefer two Chinese factions controlled by the USA and USSR respectively.

US income has to be throttled, otherwise the Allies siimply can’t lose.

Soviet military strength was way higher than GDP percentage as it had a highly developed war industry, huge human resourses and payed it’s people peanuts; hence it was much cheaper for the Soviets to build a T-34 than for the Americans to build a technically inferior Sherman.  I find it much simpler to reflect this in territorial income values rather than the messy “different unit costs for different powers” approach.

[tekkyy]

Is he back yet?

[Deaths Head 420]

where did he go?

[Guerrilla Guy]

He’s on the Can Give the Man a Break!!! What’s with you people? :roll:

GG

[Raider]

If at all possible, I’d still like to get a copy of the full sized file of this map to print out large scale and play on it at Tacticon in Denver over the Labor Day weekend.  I’m willing to figure out how to convert the file to AI if required but at least I’d have this next weekend to print it out for use at the gaming convention in two weeks.

Please let me know if this is feasible – thanks.

Raider

[Flashman]

Is this the map everybody is referring to?

http://img139.imageshack.us/img139/7113/axisandalliesglobalwarmqc2.jpg

If so, it’s badly in need of the Flashman treatment…

If there’s a link to a more accurate version I’ll refrain from further comment until I’ve seen it.  Bangladesh indeed.

[Raider]

Flashman:

Sorry, I was looking for the last version this topic: Reply #448 on: May 25, 2007, 11:12:59 am.

I’d like a vector version (AI preferred but I think I can convert it if I get the original file) and not the JPG version (I already have the JPG – it does not scale-up very well).

Thanks,
Raider

[tekkyy]

@Flashman:

Is this the map everybody is referring to?
http://img139.imageshack.us/img139/7113/axisandalliesglobalwarmqc2.jpg
If so, it’s badly in need of the Flashman treatment…

Link to my first post with a complete list of drafts.
http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?topic=7789.msg172183#msg172183

I think this is the latest. Although its 3 months old.

05/25/2007 http://www.mediafire.com/?bxazc1zzvjz

[Flashman]

Sorry, but I can’t manage to download a readable version.  I’ll just have to wait for a decent scan to be posted before passing detailed comment.

Anyway I’ve reviewed the earlier version but will update if the new map corrects these errors.

http://www.harrisgamedesign.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=1443&start=16

[Guest]

I assume that I downloaded the correct map, but it does have its problems.  On Borneo, the northern British controlled area is called Brunei.  The area was actually called Sarawak, and Brunei was a small part of it.  However, no IPC value for Ceylon, nor any naval bases?  Columbo and Trincomalee were vital to the British Eastern Fleet.  No naval base at Alexandria in Egypt?  Hey, were does the British Med Fleet operate from.  It should have both a harbor and air base there.  Where is Massawa in Italian Eritria?  No Russian naval or air bases in Vladivostok?  No Azores or Bermuda in the Atlantic?  Some very odd IPC values.  This map still needs a fair amount of work.  I could go on for a lot longer if desired.

[Flashman]

Same here, but I really wanted to review the very latest version.

You just KNOW a map isn’t finished when Austria is called Roumania…

Wait 'till you see my latest version…any day soon.

[Meethos]

I PM’ed Deepblue to see if he could post his photoshop files here.  Hopefully he will respond.

Edit: Here is a link to the latest version:

http://files.filefront.com/AAGW_Draft_10_052507.jpg/;8369990;/fileinfo.html

Edit: The start date is a combination Summer 1941 Eastern Front and Winter 1941 Pacific Front.

[Adlertag]

I HATE that Berlin City Circle, its a misfit

[Meethos]

I HATE that Berlin City Circle, its a misfit

I agree with you it looks tacky being inside another territory.

[Flashman]

Thanks for the link; Flashy can now go to work.

One or two early observations:

It has Stalingrad and Volgograd, two names for the same city.

Papua is still spelled Papau

I too hate those circles, and have even deleted same from my AAE maps.  That Tobruk territory just looks silly, and should be part of Cyrenaica.

Does it have a specific date?  If it’s the traditional one, French West Africa and Madagascar should be Vichy, Italian East Africa British occupied.  Same for December 1941, which I’m guessing is the date from the Asian line up (apparently taken from AAP).

Full review here:

http://www.harrisgamedesign.com/bb/viewtopic.php?p=16251#16251

[Raider]

Meethos:

Thanks for sending the note to Deepblue.

Any high resolution vector file like Illustrator would the best – JPG just losses too much detail and is difficult to edit.

Thanks,
Raider

[Meethos]

Does it have a specific date?

According to Deepblue its a Summer (June/July) 1941 start date with some variations.

I think, but not certain, that the variations refer to a winter 1941 start date for the Pacific front.

Hope that helps.

[Flashman]

Just a few errors I noticed:

The end of Italian East Africa is generally considered to have come in May 1941 with the surrender of the duke of Aosta.  Though various small guerilla groups continued to fight in the hope of a German/Italian victory in north Africa, it cannot really be said that Italy controlled Ethiopia or Somalia after May '41.
Madagascar and French West Africa were definately still loyal to Vichy at this time, so placing them under U.K. control is completely wrong. If simply making Vichy German, as this map does with French North Africa and France itself, then the same must apply to the other Vichy held colonies.
Netherlands colonies (DEI) to U.K. is reasonable, but Iran is incorrect.
The Anglo-Soviet invasion was in August-September 1941, so the map is wrong for June/July (Iran was then still independent). Even for December it is incorrect, as control and occupation of the country was divided with the U.S.S.R. controling the north including Teheran, the British occupying the south.  On a map that divides Iran north/south there really is no excuse for not representing this.
Calling southern Libya Fezzan is correct, but really this was just desert and should be part of the Sahara.
FWA covered a much wider area; the territories here would be more accurately called Senegal and French Soudan.
FEA should be Chad.
Congo is wrong, this is Ubangi-Shari, later Central African Republic/Empire.
“Bangladesh” should of course be East Bengal.
“Dutch East Indies” should be Timor, or “Flores islands”.
Bonin islands and Iwo Jima hardly justify two territories.
As I mentioned, Volgograd is the post Stalin name for Stalingrad so is a complete anomoly.
Caucasus generally refers to the region named here as “Georgia”. It would be correct to call the northern area “Ciscaucasus” and the south “Transcaucasus”, but I prefer to apply Caucasus soley to the southern region based around the Caucasus mountains.  The north migh be called “Terek” after the major river running through it.
Nova Scotia is not an island but a penninsular of the Canadian mainland.
Can’t imagine what that large island off the coast of Wales is; Atlantis?
I do not care for the ambiguous usage of, for example, calling one territory “France” and then another “Western France”.  Each should be distinguished individually from the whole country.
Baluchistan bordering Uzbekistan is wrong; the British and Russians deliberately drew the Afghanistan border across to China to prevent there being a Russian/Indian border.
Yakut does not border Mongolia or China.