I agree, a clean map is better, why I removed all the default stuff in the first place.
Its funny you should mention about making boxes, last night I was messing with the blowup box on the map, and thought to myself, why not make some out of wood, this way every/any place can be blownup. So today I went to the shop to bore the lid for the Italy battle box, then I cut some blowup boxes out… just need to detail them a tad to match all my other crap, then paint.
Also, I messed with the kamikaze some more, ill post a pic here soon of some options.
My card deck accessory will be available soon, it will have blow up box cards and mobilization zone cards for each nation. This deck will also have reference card information like order of play, starting income, cost of units, R&D charts as well as turn sequence steps… these cards will reference info for both the 1940 and 1942 scenarios.
@Young:
these cards will reference info for both the 1940 and 1942 scenarios.
What scenarios are those? Are they for play on a G40 board?
@Young:
these cards will reference info for both the 1940 and 1942 scenarios.
What scenarios are those? Are they for play on a G40 board?
Yes, there is the 1940 scenario which we all know, and there is a 1942 scenario that Larry created for Gen Con tourney games… all setup charts for both scenarios will also be included in my deck.
@Young:
Yes, there is the 1940 scenario which we all know, and there is a 1942 scenario that Larry created for Gen Con tourney games… all setup charts for both scenarios will also be included in my deck.
Oh cool. I had no idea.
Is the setup listed somewhere?
@Young:
Yes, there is the 1940 scenario which we all know, and there is a 1942 scenario that Larry created for Gen Con tourney games… all setup charts for both scenarios will also be included in my deck.
Oh cool. I had no idea.
Is the setup listed somewhere?
My card deck accessory will be available soon, it will have blow up box cards and mobilization zone cards for each nation. This deck will also have reference card information like order of play, starting income, cost of units, R&D charts as well as turn sequence steps… these cards will reference info for both the 1940 and 1942 scenarios.
That’ll be great, YG. Should take care of all the different needs previolusly handled by the game aids on the map itself. Can’t wait to see the deck!
I would also prefer not to have blowup boxes on the map. A small (movable) thing is way more flexibel. You put your units on the card / wooden panel or something and put a marker on the map.
On the other hand, it would certainly be nicer to have blowup boxes with the actual territory on it. A more detailed version of gibraltar / hawaii would be a really nice touch for a box.
Certainly better than a generic “army #1” box. But I guess you can’t have everything :-) Or maybe we could ask sired to do some blowout boxes of often used territories and release it as a seperate file to the map
On the other hand, it would certainly be nicer to have blowup boxes with the actual territory on it.
This could be done with the right amount of cards… what would be considered necessary territories for blow up boxes?
I kinda like the idea of some island cards, something to think about for your deck YG (I know your done, but are we ever done? :P )
Sorry for the delay, but here are some Kamikaze wips, added the wheels back to the val, in addition tried out another silhouette. Then tried the sun.
Im kinda partial to the original one (1) … with the added wheels it cover the Kaze a tad, (3) is the same, but raised to not cover the Kaze. The more I look at (1), the more the wheels don’t bother me like it originally did.
I agree, I like the original one with wheels, the rising sun is cool, but it’s not conducive to the convoy symbol and I think they should both be cut from the same cloth (so to speak).
…and yes, it’s seems that I am not done, but I don’t want to revisit the card deck project and must spend the time to get it right, I believe this now includes setup charts and blowup boxes.
I like all of those in different ways, so any one you choose sounds great. Have you tried the lettering in front of the Val? It would obscure the wheel a bit, but not entirely. Just wondering which layer in front is best.
I like all of those in different ways, so any one you choose sounds great. Have you tried the lettering in front of the Val? It would obscure the wheel a bit, but not entirely. Just wondering which layer in front is best.
This sounds like a good idea.
I like the first one the most.
combination of 1 and 4 is my choice
@Imperious:
combination of 1 and 4 is my choice
Sooo… Number 2 with a Val?
Sired is there any reason you prefer to use a Val over a Zero (I assume that’s a Zero in No. 2)?
Can we perhaps abandon the Japanese characters and have it just say KAMIKAZE like the CONVOY symbol
Thanks for all the feedback!
Why I prefer the Val over the zero is, it has a bigger cockpit glass section, which I think will look better in the print.
It looks like im not alone with 1, so ill do a few more edits/options for 1. Wheels in front/back of the Kami, and with Kamikaze label. Ill have that up later today, now im off to make my first vid, so lets hope I don’t goof it up lol.
Thanks again for all the help.
Oh, as for painting the terrain goes, all ive gotten done if references kinda lined up. What ive been messing with is mountains, ive never had to paint mountains from a top down before, usually I made them in 3d, then textured them with color/normal/spec maps and the engine takes care of the rest haha.
I added in the pic the convoy, and the convoy from YG’s map, just to show I stayed in the same size range.
I personally still like the val with the wheels in front, with the symbols. You cant even really tell with Kamikaze, wheels in front/back due to the placemant of the silhouette, kinda worked out.
Personally I actually like the lettered, with wheels behind. but I’m odd!
I’m probably gonna be in the minority on this, but I like the KAMIKAZE word in the same font as CONVOY like you’ve done above… but I would go with a Zero silhouette without the wheels encroaching on the KAMIKAZE characters the way the ship silhouette does not encroach on the CONVOY characters. That’s just me.
