AARHE: Map files

@Imperious:

Its easily fixed!!!
I will make a sticker you can DL and cover up the wrong line with a strip of water, and another decal for the new line.

Brilliant!  I’m not sure why I didn’t think of that.  Now I can mod to my hearts content!

I haven’t done anything special.  Before I committed $135 to Kinkos for a full banner print of the maps, I used MS Publisher to print them off.  I used a small overlap, for alignment purposes, on 8.5" x 11".  After carefully trimming and taping them all together the map was glued to a nice 1/16" pressboard surface on a 1" x 2 " frame for stability.

I tried shellac on my first prototype, but it started warping, so I framed them and put some felt coasters on the bottom so it wouldn’t scratch other surfaces.

Since shellac didn’t work too well, someone had the bright idea to use clear contact paper (e.g., 24’ x 18" rolls for ~$5 @ Home Depot).  Voila!  Cheap and easy way to protect it.

The first board came out at 55" x 30" and the second one was slightly smaller at 48" x 28".  They even fit nicely in the back of my Toyota Corolla ;-)

The extra elbow room was a big hit at our recent gathering.

I’ll post some pictures next time I get a functioning camera – they are all on the fritz again.

• Bierwagen

I go for budget and just print them on consumer printers

not top quality stuff
no big impact of A0 poster

but its good that its modular
like modular armour hehe

ghost lines?
I just chop the image

AARHE Map:

20080303_AARHE_standard_with_setup.pdf

OMG - Turkey!  What the hell does the strait do?

You disconnected sz 14 from sz 16.

The axis converted Turkey to their side with -5 and the Turkish army popped up.  Now they want to move the army from Turkey through the Bosporus Strait to the Balkans because it is colored grey on both sides.  Germany has fallen to US/UK and this is the closest army they have – so the situation is dire.

Can you clarify the intent of this map modification?  It is our first time this has happened and we can’t come to consensus.

I thought this area represented the gun implacements there used for defense, not a land bridge.

Thanks in advance,

• Bierwagen

The real question:  Is Turkey now connected to the Balkan’s via that little sliver of land?

We converted the neutrals to German units, but couldn’t figure out if they were allowed to move straight to the Balkan’s or did they have to take a different route.

It was close, but Axis still won.  Russia was overrun by the Japanese and German was still getting 17 IPC even at 50% reduction.

@Imperious:

It was close, but Axis still won.  Russia was overrun by the Japanese and German was still getting 17 IPC even at 50% reduction.

The lend lease was supposed to be 50% more NOT reduction.  If you reduced LL to Russia by 50% no wonder they lost.

Try playing with historical victory conditions ( no japs into Russia unless Moscow falls)

No, you misunderstood.  I was trying to say that Germany had fallen.  Thus, Germany was only getting 50% income, because it’s capital was in enemy hands.

So both Germany and Russia had fallen and it was a race between the 3 remaining powers – and what popped up in Turkey.  That’s why we were so interested in what Turkey was connected to.

I like that rule about no Japn in Russia until Moscow falls.  That should raise some eyebrows.

See ya.

• Bierwagen

Evening IL,

Well the Las Vegas crowd has returned and we’ve got 10-12 of us gathering tomorrow for our monthly “wring out” AARHE Lite+ event.

We have 10 signed up for sure, with 1-2 more in the unknown category.  I’m hoping to incorporate Italy for any stragglers that showed up.  However, in trying to make some overlay templates (e.g., modify Germany, Norway, & Australia) I noticed that the 1942 maps don’t have any of the VCs on them – so I’m not sure what to do.  Should I use the VC values from 1939 (e.g., 5 for Rome and 2 for Poland)?

I also think Southern Germany should have some troop levying capability.  All those brown shirts and Austrians just sitting around drinking bier were easily thrown into uniforms ;-)

Hopefully I can eventually convince them to play 1939, but it has been hard enough to introduce AARHE & Lite.

So, if you have any spare time would you mind updating:

20070401_AARHE_1942_Italy_with_setup_100dpi.png
  -  VC’s, Mobilization Values, Neutral forces, & Canals/Straits

Thanks in advance!

• Bierwagen

Turkey’s Strait (SZ 15-16) needs to be added to the Straits & Waterway table (page 7).  The only place it is referenced is in the Appendix: Neutrals under the table (page 19).

It might be a good idea to reference that moving through a Neutral strait is an act of war in the Straits and Waterway section.  I’ve had the German player do that without us knowing that.

Note:  This is why I’m requesting the numbering of para’s and tables so they are easier to reference than just “page 19”.

Is -1 or -4 diplomacy required to allow use of the waterway?

ok I’ll add Turkey to “Canals and Waterways”

IL

Is this the most recent version of your AARHE map?

http://www.mediafire.com/?lz10ck9dhx5

Thanks