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Project is complete, see bottom pic.

Video on map:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mabYTEqvzKc

Map file is print ready for 32x70 size shown in the vid.
File is 250dpi, plenty enough to blow it up, you can zoom in to 300x and still looks flawless.

Map file is 20.00 (US)

For you 20 bucks, youll get 2 versions of the map, my version with changes, and OOB version. Files are in .tiff and .psd.

See video for more details

original post:

Units are painted, Battle Boxes on hold till I get parts, custom pieces on hold till Jan,… so its map time finally.

Overall I really like the map, but unfortunately some things bother me enough, so I might as well redo it with my own art. I have almost 20 years in digital art and have made many terrain’s for 3d games so this should be a breeze.

First things I need to change are some of the sizes, Britain and Europe in the yellow outline will be enlarged, while Africa will be reduced in size. Areas in red I just want different roundels to match my painted units, example Italy uses the Fascist roundel.

New epic water, new painted terrians, adding mountain ranges, deserts, etc.

What I don’t want–

• No border changes
• No IPC value changes
• No adding country roundels that are not a playable country, while I see many who have done this, and yes it looks epic, but I just want to see whos playing. *Main reason- every so often we take 5, and count our countries to verify income (youd be surprised how many times the dude on chart duty fked up), I just want to see roundels of playable countries.
• No charts/graphs, just a clean map. *Reason- I have a custom Portable Game table, which has crap built in (income tracker, turn tracker, turn sequence, and R&D, in addition, every country has its own set of cards which shows, combined arms, unit profiles, etc.
• Don’t want Facility icons, I like my air/naval base pieces.

So aside from those, im open for other ideas/changes. Hopefully this is done in the next couple weeks, as I got other things (customizations) to attend to :P

Ill update this post with progress pics along the way, so far all I have is the map in its proper layers to make them adjustable, I have finished Britian though (not painted yet, just resized) which ill post a pic as soon as all the resizing is done.

PRPJECT COMPLETED :)

I think its important to try new things, im always doing crazy stuff, and you know what, you learn. My group used to always criticize me for my tactics… “your doing that, you should do this”… “you throwing the game”… Now, those same people don’t say anything, they listen/watch as I win 90% of the time playing 1 on 1. I find myself now battling against my strategies I used on them, when before they would basically do a grasshopper video…

I have no problems winning as axis, and I have no problems winning as allied… naturally you lose some, but I don’t feel the bid is necessary with experienced players, our group plays every week (our group consists of 21, 7 regulars), sometimes 2-3 a week, for the past year, we have a lot of time in. Ive personally worked a long time on debugging the current strategies out there, which ill go over when I do my own videos.

I even used to give the Allies the +30 IPCs, but I don’t anymore, we don’t need it… we are a lethal bunch

Point is, you have to try new ideas to discover new ideas. My UK strategy is 100% different then this, and mine kicks ass too, there are many ways to win this game… and many ways to lose it… always try new ideas, you will become a better player.

You keep doing what your doing GHG!

Its our second year running! We will be playing the Bloodbath ruleset! Catered food, alcohol, and lots of fun! Event is in Laguna Hills, about 7 min south from the John Wayne airport.

Price is 50 per person, this is to mainly cover the food and drinks which is provided Sat/sun… Monday you are on your own for food.

Unfortunately this event sold out super fast via youtube, if you would like to be on standby or I can possibly put you on a 3 player team (we have a few already)… just message me before hand and ill ask around for ya.

Lots of folks coming this year! Some of us will also be attending Disneyland on the 24th and 25th … BOOM!

Young Grasshopper
Iron Stitch
Wartorn
Gijoe
Gargantua
VK Cowboy
Hambone
Dtroy
Corpo 24
Matt Todd
Warpig
Albert
Teflon
zencube
Leatherneck
Cesar’s Gual
Jose Pascual
Edward Pascual
Jason Hagarty
Ross Pimentel
Big Jim
Jelso and his brother
Dominic - MoFo Brothers
Jay
and Myself

Just wanted to post a pic of my custom Air Base piece, Thought using a control tower seemed the most useful, easy to pick up, and the base is actually smaller then the cardboard.

The mold for casting will be underway this weekend, I hope to post here again Sunday of the casted result…. fingers crossed :)

EDIT 10/30 UPDATE–

Here is the final cast, I set up a side by side for size relation, and a few on the board. I made 30 of each, should cover what I need, ive never ran out of cardboard during a game.

Not 100% sure what color im going to paint the factories/bases, I kinda like the light gray, going to let it linger a bit before I decide, I do know I don’t want them detailed painted like the units, I want these to be plain like they are now, just the same color.

Hope you like them, thanks for looking!

This side project really took longer then I thought, didn’t get a chance to really paint too much and work on the map this past week…. I should still be posting pics of China tomorrow though.

@djensen sorry for delay, got it posted :)

Don’t laugh, but I like “Battle Box”… sounds kinda funny, makes me smile lol.

All the boxes are made with exception to the lids, as I need to find medals I like to fit a 2" radius. I was able to do Germany, as I already have an Iron Cross first class. I had some mold/resin left over from my Airbase/Naval base thread, so I made a copy of it.

Ill update this thread as im able to when new lids are done, I have US/France/Russia/and ANZAC on the way to me, hopefully they will work…. with luck, US will be here today!!

SO… why on earth would I put this much into trays? Well, i made a portable gaming table made 100% for this game. I used to host at my house, but with the loss of players ive ventured out and play at game stores, and let me tell ya, my table/painted units really draws in the crowds. Its a great way to meet new potential players. Only thing i thought was missing was cool piece trays, er i mean “National Battle Boxes” :P

Pay no mind to my game aid cards, those are old now and im currently designing new ones to go with my new setup chart look.

Speaking of the setup chart, youll notice it has setup for Europe 1940/ Global 1940 / Global 1942… America/UK have set ups for Pacific as well… let me tell you, what a pain in the a$$ it was to design this, i went though many designs to find the space to fit all the data i wanted, this was the hold up on posting this topic.

The piece segments have different elevations for the units to work best with each county, this way your not digging around. The center is designed to not only hold my game cards, but also fit the money, sometimes we will continue a game a week later, so being able to store cash was a must. During game play, there is a slot to hold the cards/cash… UK has duel sides to keep the money separated.

Hope you like the pics, ill be making my first vid this week for the painted piece setup, hopefully my phone pans out haha.

Both… tinker and tweak!

I always wanted to add 100 more cities or so for a map touch! But also there are still OOB stuff not correct or at least misleading. Not in a gameplay aspect, but historical… and yup, some border tweets… china territories will have the Chinese symbols under name, japan will be 2 SZ as it currently contradicts the rule book… there is more, but it’s a surprise!.. it’s gonna be love trust me ;)

WOW! These are fantastic! I love seeing the life boats on them, thanks for sharing.