Images of the Map?

@Imperious:

Does anyone else notice the German fighter up on its side in this pic?  :-P

The road to Paris goes through Switzerland.
Also makes it harder for the UK to get units into the fight.

Yeah, Switzerland and Belgium should be the German targets R1.

If the French want to attack into Alsace its their funeral.

It looks inevitable to invade switzerland with the bavarian army from munich (if thats at least possible on the current map)

“In August 1914 the army of Crownprince Rupprecht made an amphibious assault over the lake constance and attacked Switzerland without any prior warning”

Now thats what I call Alternate History …

Does anyone else notice the German fighter up on its side in this pic?  :-P

It’s turning to make another strafing run. :lol:

@wove100:

Does anyone else notice the German fighter up on its side in this pic?  :-P

It’s turning to make another strafing run. :lol:

Richthofen can do whatever he wants :wink:

I like how you can travel from the Caspian Sea to Petrograd in two turns, but try to go from Berlin to Paris…

Ooops, seems Germany starts with no transports, so you have to add one to those sea route numbers.

Seems like cheating, that.

I also like how a US cruiser can get from New York to Sevastopol in 2 turns.

Well here’s the sum of my night’s work.

Still not 100% on Germany, and is Switzerland really worth only 1 IPC?

I’m assuming that “Bombay” simply indicates a unit placement area, and is not considered a capital for victory purposes.

Good work Flashman.

Maybe I missed the conversation, but it seems the ottomans can’t have their navy safe in the Black Sea from the mediterranean fleets even if they control constantinople?

I have to say I’m not a big fan of the geography on this map.

Paris is way to far to the west.

Munich is in Tyrol.

Poland has a coast line in 1914… that’s news to me.  Prussia should boarder the “Livonia” province and Poland should be land locked.

The Aegean sea, and Turkey in particular are completely placed incorrectly.

@vonLettowVorbeck1914:

Maybe I missed the conversation, but it seems the ottomans can’t have their navy safe in the Black Sea from the mediterranean fleets even if they control constantinople?

We haven’t heard yet, but I’m assuming there are strait rules, just like in other A&A games for Panama and Egypt. Like you, I wonder if the player controlling Constantinople has the ability to have their fleet on either side of the sea zone at will. Can the British attack the Ottoman fleet even though the Ottoman fleet is clearly in the Black Sea and the British fleet is clearly in the Aegean?

Tell us about it.

The East Prussia in Poland issue has been a scandal for weeks.

Paris is closer to Berlin than Moscow for gamey reasons; my instinct would have been to cut down the tts, certainly Burgundy & Lorraine should be one tt. If its too easy for Germany to take Paris give the teutons fewer starting units, or reduce their IPC income - don’t mess with geography by pushing Paris into the Atlantic.

Its all a bit like Moscow being somewhere in central Siberia on the old WWII boards.

The Finnish Atlantic coastline, Schleswig-Holstein in Denmark and the Greece-Turkey border are other shockers, and Rome being a tiny enclave to shield it from an Austrian AA just looks silly.

And why on earth isn’t Sevastopol 2 tts with the Caucasus in the south east bordering Armenia in the north and Mesopotamia to the south carved out of the weird “Mesopotamia”? Hejaz is also sadly missed, especially when you read the UK frontline report where Britain invades Trans-Jordan from the Red Sea.

@manstein39:

I have to say I’m not a big fan of the geography on this map.

Paris is way to far to the west.

Munich is in Tyrol.

Poland has a coast line in 1914… that’s news to me.  Prussia should boarder the “Livonia” province and Poland should be land locked.

The Aegean sea, and Turkey in particular are completely placed incorrectly.

Well, ‘Poland’ wasn’t a country as it was part of Russia at the time, so I’m ok with the territory of ‘Poland’ having a coastline.  Clearly Paris is moved to the West to allow bigger territories on the West front- again, fine with me.

No Axis & Allies game has been true to geography exactly- who would want to play Global 1940 with a tiny Europe?

@manstein39:

Poland has a coast line in 1914… that’s news to me.  Prussia should boarder the “Livonia” province and Poland should be land locked.

It’s even arguable whether Poland should be there at all.  Poland was partitioned between Russia, Austria and Prussia back in the 18th century, and it didn’t re-emerge as an independent state until after WWI.  I don’t know if any of the three partitioning powers (Russia, Austria and Prussia) used “Poland” as an official regional name for their piece of Poland’s territory between 1772 and 1919.  My understanding is that Tsarist Russian tried hard to suppress anything that smacked of Polish nationalism.

@BJCard:

@manstein39:

I have to say I’m not a big fan of the geography on this map.

Paris is way to far to the west.

Munich is in Tyrol.

Poland has a coast line in 1914… that’s news to me.� Prussia should boarder the “Livonia” province and Poland should be land locked.

The Aegean sea, and Turkey in particular are completely placed incorrectly.

Well, ‘Poland’ wasn’t a country as it was part of Russia at the time, so I’m ok with the territory of ‘Poland’ having a coastline.� Clearly Paris is moved to the West to allow bigger territories on the West front- again, fine with me.

No Axis & Allies game has been true to geography exactly- who would want to play Global 1940 with a tiny Europe?

Sorry for any confusion, but I was referring to the territory of Poland.  The Prussian boarder should extend all the way to ‘Livonia’ in this map, because the territory of Poland was landlocked in reality.

I understand the need to shrink/enlarge continents for playability, but this is one of the most distorted maps since the original Axis and Allies.

Poland was a distinct political entity that the Tzar had promised independence to after the war, and it most definitely did not have a coastline. Certainly not including Konigsburg.

I’ve no great objection to the telescoping of some tts to make them practical, for example Belgium is twice the size it is geographically, but to place two tts between Paris and the German border is pushing it too far.

Its the number of tts, not the physical size of them, that determines the game. When it take Berlin based infantry 4 turns to cross the Lorriane border you know something has been fixed unfairly. The Americans can be in Paris before the Berliners can reach it!

When people in 1914 talked about Poland, they meant Congress Poland:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congress_Poland