Posts made by dedo

Hi Orillian

Who is Orillian?

Are you really sharing your map file

That’s the use of this thread.

I thought we could only by the printed enlarged version

What do you mean by “by” (buy?)? There’s nothing to buy, the files are for free.

I have got a 20mb scan of the OOB map (that is, scale 1:1). The problem with this scan is, that it is too dark, as I was told. Unfortunately, I didn’t know that when the file was produced and when it came down to work with the scan file it was too late to compalin about the quality at the copy shop. However, if you are interested, I can send you a link to download the scan.

Sorry for the late reply!

I tried it today and it worked. Perhaps your conncection was interrupted?
Bear in mind, that after clicking on the link you have to interrupt the automatic download and to click on the separate white download button in the upper right area of the window.

Great work, you both!

Thank you very much, good to know, never compared those maps!

In the case of an all airplane attack, with fighter bombers or both, can they continue to attack a territory with no air cover or AA until all the defenders are dead or must they stop.

Attacking units (regardless of the type of unit) continue in attacking as long as you (the attacker) wish.

After the step of combat movement the step of combat follows up. “Combat” consists of “attacks” in territories or sea zones. Any attack in a territory or a seazone consists of “rounds” (one round=attacker rolls dice first, then defender rolls dice). When a round ends, the attacker -and only the attacker- decides to continue (next round starts) or to retreat. Translated into the case you mentioned: you -the attacker- attack (in this case with airplanes only) in a territory. After the first round (you roll dice, the defender rolls dice) you can decide to continue the attack or to retreat. This continues as long as you have units which can attack or the defender is dead or you retreat.

Also can battleships/cruisers only attack land units during amphibious assaults?

The question can be misread and I have to answer two ways:
Battleships and cruisers are the only vessels which can attack during amph. assault.
when they attack, they can attack any unit in the territory but they’ve got only one shot per landed unit. Example:
2 land units from a transport are landing, 1 battle ship (BB) and 2 cruiser are supporting the amph. assault.
two shots can be fired upon defending units, you can decide which ships fire (of cause you decide, that the BB and one of the cruisers should fire)

Im looking for a supreme map for AArevised to print out, at least double size of the original. Does something like this exist?

To avoid confusions, the download links to older versions were deleted:

v01
v04
v07
v08
v14
v15
v22

The only issue i had was the seazones tended to blend

What do you mean exactly? Is there a blending A) between the seazones (seazone borders between seazones are problematic) or B) within the seazones (bleeding of colors)? However, in the most cases, problems of a print out are related to the printer. If your computer screen shows you an accurate picture or graphic, the print out should be of the same quality (depending on the printer…).

A) When I remember right, the seazone border colors are predominantly white. Most of the standard printers (99%) do not print white. For example, try to print a white bar or something like this on colored paper, probably it will not work.

B) Bleeding: When I printed parts of the map the first time, I couldn’t find any bleedings. Again, bleedings may depend on your printer (I used a color laser printer). If you print the map on a standard printer, you should use the best solution and print quality possible.

Insert Quote
Just want to say thank you  for the work on this, i printed it out at home, so much better than the oob and so much room…. . Thanks again

Thank you very much, DM!

I will be printing this for sure, perhaps next winter after my bunker renovations, I love how you corrected many of the graphic flaws that I had issues with.

@ YG, thank you very much, my pleasure!
BTW, good to know you with the 42.2ers!

Thanks, but more than 95% of the work…comes from Dedo

Don’t hide your light under a bushel, it’s extremely important to clear the faults otherwise one would chafe at the printed map when detecting the faults (in my first printed map I mixed up Western and Eastern Australia, it was an ongoing amusement to my game partner, an air traffic controller, to explain the difference between western and eastern again and again…).

Happy for you! I must admit, nice result! First appearance of the B-17 formation, have some fun and nice games!

it’s a little blurry, i don’t know if it’s because the initial format is 600

Did I get this right, or in other words, could it be, that you took the smaller size of the map (600mm x…), gave it to the copy shop and ordered a bigger one (700mm x…) for a print out?

Hm, the map you printed looks indeed a little bit grainy and streaky (…whereas I’m unable to determine to what extend this is due to the quality of the photo…). To check the PDF-file, I printed it out with a laser printer on paper. My print out is perfect, even better than the PC-view of the PDF-file what is not astonishing to me: the map PDF-File itself has got a resolution of 2400 dpi, thats quite a lot and more than enough for a very detailled print out. I assume, the print shop is the problem here. Sometimes they are not able to print in such a high resolution, a second problem may be the material of the printing surface, they used. What can be done? You should print out a proof copy on paper for yourself (not the whole file but one page of a “poster”, that is, a part of the map, where all details of the map style can be seen). Then you should ask your prefered copy shop to make a small proof copy before printing the whole map (optimally, they print the same page/part of the poster). Compare und judge whether the print out of the copy shop fits your requirements or not.

By the way, the initial format of the map isn’t 600(mm?), but 1620mmx860mm and, eventually, the map was reduced to smaller sizes.
A reducement of size would never lead to a decrement of quality of the graphics, its even vice versa, mostly you improve the quality.
Only enlargements of sizes could be critical. For instance, if you try to enlarge a bitmap, the quality of the bitmap wil be decreased: the same information of the graphic (number of pixels) is now shared in a larger area, that is, “stairways” result and make the bitmap clumsy. This happens only to raster graphics/bitmaps but not to vector graphics. All elements of the map (lines, curves, captions) with the exception of the map istelf ARE vector graphics.

In other words, the reduction from full size to the smaller sizes is irrelevant to the quality due to the principle of vectorizing, that is, proportionaltity and quality of the graphics remain.

Final version 5 of 5

Due to special wishes from a very special community…
one additional, final map:

• double border design
• Mob Zone in the South Pacific
• B-17 Squadron picture in the South Atlantic

http://www.mediafire.com/view/ot8sgsnz95449y6/1942-ed2_Double_borders_with_MobZone_in_the_South_Pacific.pdf

Well, the explanation could be: do not trust a computer of a girlfriend…
Joking aside, I don’t know the reason, why the map is displayed in a different manner: may be, it depends on an appropriate PDF-Reader (version?). However, I’m totally convinced that the map will work as I already have got a printed version, where the insignia are depicted correctly. Apart from that: the insignia is one “piece”, that is, it is not consisting of a set of elements (e.g., black lines, white lines, red circle).

You are welcome, Sir, I’m most grateful for your help on the maps!
With the utmost probability there are no more errors. Everything is checked several times.

Map 1941, triple border, 1129x600mm

• seazone and territory border topology checked again
• background graphic adapted
• all other mentioned items corrected/improved

Hopefully final version:
http://www.mediafire.com/view/ue900080s5x1xa8/1941-triple_border_1129x_600mm.pdf

Map 1941, triple border, 1317x700mm

• seazone and territory border topology checked again
• background graphic adapted
• all other mentioned items corrected/improved

Hopefully final version:
http://www.mediafire.com/view/2jq6mcjacvtch0h/1941-triple_border_1317x700mm.pdf