ILs larger map

Current game using ILs larger map. Situation is at the end of five turns. Looks like the Germs might make a breakthrough during turn six by taking Bastogne.

Download Link:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/xytd36o55ws4d7g/AH_Battle_of_the_Bulge_varient_map.pdf

Photo of entire map at the end of turn five.

@Imperious:

I remember making that map in one days sitting and i made it the day i got the OOB game. I think it came out quite nice and i’m surprised i was able to emulate it so well.

I think it is a great map and ever since I found it we dont use the OOB map any more. This map really expands the game. I have been trying to use some of the rule ideas in my N.Africa game. Like the supply token idea. That alone makes the game so much more interesting.

Plan to finish current game 07/27/11 and finish testing rule revisions. See link to ILs larger map above.

OK, here is our last game using ILs larger map. We finished turn 9 and the allies surrendered. The Germs have 31 points and are prepared to break through on turn 10 and gain the maximum of 36. I have not been able to find ILs rules file on my computer. I guess I never saved it. I must have printed it out without saving. So I will post the changes here that we made in his rules. IL added mechanized infantry and tiger tanks to the oob rules. The tigers are basicly replacing some of the oob panthers. He also has a few additional reinforcments as the map is larger and the scope of the game has been increased. So we added one supply token to the Germs per turn. In the game just completed that amounted to nine additional total tokens. The allies seem to have plenty. IL also had the tigers rolling 3 dice each (d-6s) which seemed a little much. There are a lot of tigers. We reduced the tigers to two dice with one bonus die for each pair of tigers. One tiger will roll 2 dice, two will role 5, three will roll 7, and four roll 10. Its a little hard to compare his d-6 system to the oob d-12 system that we used with the pull out tabs and so forth. Another option would be to reduce the number of tigers. IL gave the tigers the option to NOT retreat if they were hit once. We did not change this. Another change was in the aircraft combat. He has I think 13 maximum turns for the game. As far as I could tell he had no provision for bad weather. Starting with turn five we rolled one d-12 with bad weather prevailing on an 8 or less. So the planes could fly on a roll of 9-12. As you can see with the addition of the mech. inf. that means rolling a maximum of six dice instead of the oob five for AA fire. Basicly we found the air forces pretty weak unless you could find some lonely supply tokens to bomb. If you have any questions I will attempt to answer them if I can.

The Germs seemed to have the upper hand in this game and in my humble opinion a big part of this advantage was the tigers and the fact the allies tried to hold on to the front lines too much. The Germs operated the whole game on a shoestring when in came to supply tokens. Several time they could not attack because of lack of supply. I look forward to playing the allies sometime to determine more about the balance of this game.