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Axis & Allies: Commanders Expansion

I have made an expansion for the game adding commanders. Except for a few special abilities, everything is based around a re-roll system.

New features

57 new commander cards, with at least 2 for each nation 39 Generals and 18 Admirals

Quick Guide:

All commanders have certain amount of Power. Power represents how many re-rolls that can be used per battle. A unit can only re-roll once per combat round. Abilities affect this.

Each nation can only use 3 commanders in both offensive and defensive battles each game round.

More info in the ruleset

Commander Cards:

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/w3z1i45j2o20bfd7485b3/A-A-Commanders-Cards.pdf?rlkey=k4g8u3ekxdq3t54mpth0rvwgm&st=zcpducg4&dl=0

Ruleset:

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/jnbuguxslt4egsw631l6p/A-A-Commanders-Rules.pdf?rlkey=hhuf1lsox9heb6o2i1mvx1t9g&st=ip2jb34r&dl=0

(Optional) Card Backsides

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/0i2i599fkv0g0wi99t2un/Optional-A-A-Commanders-backside-of-cards.pdf?rlkey=8qdrks0lm984pr881372rza82&st=1rcogr9h&dl=0

Final note:

This is a work in progress and therefore subject to change. Critique is very much appreciated. This version is not properly gametested.

Card examples: (see the rest in the Commander Cards link)
Guderian.png
MacArthur.png
Monty.png
Yamamoto.png
Zhukov.png

Here’s my collection of Russian sculpts from both A&A and HBG:

Baltic Timper Ship (G40):

Srednyaya Class Submarine (G40):

Gnevny Class Destroyer (G40):

Kirov Class Cruiser (G40):

Kostromitinova Class Aircraft Carrier (AA41):

Gangut Class Battleship (G40):

Yak-3 (G40) and I-16 (HBG) Fighters:

Il-2 (G40) and Su-2 (HBG) Tactical Bombers:

Pe-8 Strategic Bomber (G40) and IL-4 Medium Bomber (HBG):

Yak-6 Transport Aircraft (HBG):

Russian Infantry (G40) and Early War Russian Infantry (HBG):

85 mm Antiaircraft Artillery (G40), 152 mm Artillery (G40), 122mm M-30 Artillery (HBG), Katyusha Self-Propelled Artillery (HBG):

Zis-42 Mechanized Infantry (G40), BA-6 Armored Car (HBG), Gaz AAA Truck (HBG), Gaz-60 Mechanized Infantry:

T-34 Tank (G40), JS-2 Tank (AA41), Su-76 Tank Destroyer (HBG), T-26 Light Tank (HBG), T-34/76 Medium Tank (HBG), KV-2 Heavy Tank (HBG):

A&A vs HBG T-34 Tanks:

Nice work - Dare I ask how many hours you put into it? For interest’s sake.

…or he can do as the rest of us, post some nonsense at the General Discussion forum until he reach 10

@Gargantua:

Has anyone thought making the board from Acrylic??

Or is it too prone to breakage?

I had considered etching the country and seazone borders into the bottom of the acrylic topper on our topograhical board.  Would have been very cool, but too difficult at the time (skill level required was beyond me at the time).

I don’t think it would have been particularly prone to breakage.  Acrylic sheets are pretty resiliant.  SCRATCHING on the other hand would be a major issue to deal with.

It does fit, u place the two pices on top of eachother (they are only 40 mm high, the man board is 50 mm outside = 42 mm inside). The space is 600x800x84 when folded, the two pices on top of eachother are 500x600x80. That leaves a 300x600x80 space and my plan there is to make box of wood or paper to store units, dices etc!  :-D

@sgtwiltan:

It’s really too bad you didn’t make the side piece so that it would fit into the inner portion of the main board where the map is.
You could even make a simple cover to keep the pieces inside from falling out all over the place. It’s a great idea you have there though.

––Calling “Viracocha”----

––My friend,…it’s been way too long since I’ve heard from you. I ALWAYS enjoy my conversations with you.

Tall Paul

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: