Adding Tiger Tanks and ANZAC Infantry to the Reference Charts

[vodot]

Hi all, here’s some artwork to add two versions of the Tiger Tank (one with header, one without) and two versions of ANZAC Infantry (OOB + variant) to the Reference Charts. The four ANZAC Infantry divisions kicked ass in North Africa, so I thought a little stat boost would be a small but fun way to reflect that.

For the ANZAC Infantry, as I mentioned there are two versions.

The original Optional RAW is:

ANZAC Reinforcements
The United Kingdom player may deploy one UK infantry
each turn from the Reinforcements Zone directly to the
Indian Ocean convoy sea zone.

Version one just puts a visual on the reference chart to remind the Allied player of this optional rule.

If you use the “variant” version of the ANZAC Infantry (A3/D4, not supported by artillery) then there is FINALLY a reason for those larger ANZAC Infantry sculpts in AAP40.2… turns out they’re just better! Verbose rules for the variant version below.

I printed these out at 5.3" wide on some vinyl sticker paper and voila.

ANZAC Reinforcements (variant version)
The United Kingdom player may purchase and deploy one
ANZAC infantry each turn from the Reinforcements
Zone directly to the Indian Ocean convoy sea zone. If you
own a copy of Axis and Allies: 1940 Pacific use the ANZAC
Infantry pieces from that game; otherwise you may denote
these units in whatever way you choose.

ANZAC Infantry always attack at 3 (they are not further
boosted by Artillery) and defend at 4. A maximum of 4* of them
may be present on the board at any given time, and they may
not be represented or multiplied by chips. They are otherwise
identical to regular UK infantry in every way.

*One for each of the four prominent ANZAC divisions in North Africa: the Australian 9th, 6th, and 7th, and the 2nd New Zealand.

As a note, for anyone else looking to modify the Reference Charts or Map, it appears that the new font for Territories, Cities, and Unit Type is Barcelona (either ICS or EF), headers are Impact, and most other text appears to be Times New Roman.

Enjoy!

[Narvik]

@vodot

Thank you, I love it, just printet it out as we speak.

How about the “Axis Advantage” Air Transport?
Of course the dive bombers JU 87 or SM.79 can’t transport infantry or artillery, they barely have space for the 2 men crew. But if we use the JU 88 and P.108 Strategic Bomber pieces from Europe 1940 as Air Transports, how about that? Each could transport one Infantry, or one Artillery or one Supply. I don’t belive any Air Transports of WWII could transport heavy halftracks of 8 tons, barely the artillery of 2 tons. IMHO

[barnee]

@Narvik

Actually the Luftwaffe could

https://www.facebook.com/aircraftww/posts/the-messerschmitt-me-323-gigant-was-the-largest-land-based-transport-aircraft-of/824521283902532/

Idk how much they were used or how effective and if one would want to represent that or not but it was possible :)

[vodot]

@barnee I was just reading about these not long ago; looks like a few hundred were made but as one would imagine it was a bit of a lumbering beast with underpowered French engines (6 of them) due to equipment shortages in Germany and a relatively short range of 1000mi or so. Still, carrying a Panzer IV…! What a monster.

@Narvik said in Adding Tiger Tanks and ANZAC Infantry to the Reference Charts:

@vodot

How about the “Axis Advantage” Air Transport?

That would be awesome, I’ll take a look at adding that as well. I do have a few more ideas about mixing in Light and Medium tanks as well, particularly since we already effectively have these units in the form of the French and Italian tanks.