New guy checking in

@Speed_Adict:

Thanks John, but that wasn’t quite my question… I don’t want to play “G40” - just use it’s (bigger) map to play '42 on… Is this possible?

The Global 1940 map…

http://www.axisandallies.org/p/axis_allies_europe_1940_preview_4_the_global_rules/
http://www.axisandallies.org/wp-content/uploads/aag-huge.jpg

…is more that just a larger-sized version of the 1942 map.  It has a lot more territories, more sea zones, more IPC values, and more victory cities.  My guess is that if you try to play with the 1942 rules (which are calibrated for the number of spaces and victory cities on the 1942 board) on the 1940 map, you may run into some distortions that would affect the playability of the game.  The distortions would probably be even greater if you used the 1940 map in conjunction with the 1941 rules, which are calibrated for a map that has even fewer territories on it.  To give just one example: the 1941 game has been criticized for not having enough sculpts to be practical for the 1941 game’s map, so the number of sculpts it has would be hopelessly inadequate for the 1940 map, with the result that several territories would be left completely empty due to lack of available pieces.  The problem wouldn’t be quite as bad in a 1942 rules/pieces + 1940 map situation, but it would still be a problem.  A 1942 rules + 1940 pieces/map would solve part of the problem, but you’d have some units types among the sculpts (tac bomber and mech infantry) that have no countrerpart in the rules – meaning you’d have to leave them out entirely.

One aspect of the 1942 rules that might be particularly problematic is the victory conditions.  The 1942 rules assume that there are 12 victory cities on the map.  The Global 1940 map has 19 of them.  The biggest questions raised by this difference are: What do you do with the extra cities in the initial set-up?  Do you leave them unoccupied?  Or do you allocate them to particular players?  If so, to whom?  Do the 1942 victory conditions still apply?  If so, does allocating all the cities in the initial set-up create a situation in which one side is already way ahead of the other towards winning the game before it even starts?

@John:

Maybe someone will be kind enough to provide you the links to the rules.

The rulebooks for the current A&A games (and a few older ones) are downloadable here:

http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=ah/downloads

@Speed_Adict:

Tidys it up very nicely, thanks Marc :)

Glad to have helped.  Another potential problem that I should have thought of sooner has to do with the general setup instructions in the 1942 rules, which tell you how many units of which type need to be put into each territory before the game starts.  These instructions would not be compatible with the 1940 map because some of the 1942 territories don’t have the same name on the 1940 map and/or don’t cover exactly the same geographical extent, and because the 1940 map includes named territories that don’t exist on the 1942 map.  So you’d have to do a lot of unofficial interpretation to work out a correspondence table between the territories on the two maps, and it would leave you with several blanks to fill when you’re applying the 1942 setup instructions to the 1940 map.  Also, note that the setups which are correctly balanced for the 1942 map (“territory X, which has an IPC value of Y, initially gets Z infantry units”) might be unbalanced for the 1940 map, where the (roughly) equivalent territories may not necessarily have the same IPC value.

@Speed_Adict:

Pushing my luck, but could you steer me in the right direction to find a big blown up version of the Spring '42 map?

Imperious Leader might perhaps have one that fits what you’re looking for.  Have a look here:

http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?topic=18439.0

greenhorns…… attention!!

This is a blown up version of the 1942 map, with a few pictures of it printed.

http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?topic=33860.msg1381912#msg1381912

Imperious Leader’s map is designed for the anniversary edition rules, as well as having a bunch of custom stuff.

Hi, welcome I’m new too.  :mrgreen:

Hi alucy

This is a cool place you’ll like it :)