It’s been some years? Very infrequent anyway. I just got on to see what’s been going on. So, I added some history of my old A&A customizations. I haven’t played A&A in years (I guess). I did buy both 1940 games then, ofc, I had to make my combined version (mostly some minor PF map changes & specialized starting rules). When I see a map & I think it has inaccuracies, well, it gets changed (lol). Perhaps, I will send in my customization - it isn’t that much different from the original. Lastly, I did make a donation to support & to thank all you regulars for your work here.

Actually, Black Elk, my idea is you make a map board of all ocean spaces which are numbered & have an E-W border movement (N & S being high latitude therefore impassable). The concept is to create new Great Powers and enough neutral territories to approximate the PF values of an A&A map. My design is based on A&A Classic, however, it could be extrapolated to any of the games. The idea is to make an entirely new game board. An additional step which I have devised allows for a random placement of these Great Powers and other Territories so that each game board will be different - even the alignment of the land territories will be randomized. It is necessary, of course, to create, at least, 5 Great Powers and some neutral landmasses (neutral territories). One simply uses the playing pieces of the 5 major WW2 nations. In my home version of this, which I term ‘Allies & Enemies’ (A&E), I made up 7 sets of pieces so I could have up to a 7 player game (though, in RL, this has never occurred). My sets of pieces are mainly lead & pewter miniatures from what was available in the 1980s. I use plastic plane sets from that era for the aircraft. As to Great Powers - I & my old gaming friends from the 80s - there has been 12 Great Powers randomly created (I did all the artwork for consistency of look) - so this random Great Power creation system works (played considerably).
What someone suggested and what I must now do is to make up a you tube video of what & how I made my A&A random map board - how it works & how it changes for each game one would play.
The design pre-supposes a variable number of players (4-7 would be best, although 5 or 6 would be ‘traditional’) each playing on their own OR, alternately, somehow divided into two as equal as possible teams ‘points’ (PF) wise. I made my game designed on a map of sea spaces that are all squares sized to hold sufficient naval units - the land territories being ‘squarish’ in shape, as well. At the time, I was influenced by the off board ‘squares’ for unit placement on the old original A&A Classic map (a really bad design feature, in retrospect). Now, with A&A:WW1, which I recently obtained, I have used my design idea for original Great Powers where I use a hexagonal space map - a better way to do random alignments (as you can do 6 directions to just 4 with a square space map. Plus, in my A&A:WW1 map version, sea spaces will be more important. * Note: in either game (WW1 or WW2) my map design system uses more sea spaces as the maps of the land have absolutely no bearing to the map of the Earth (with Europe, Pacific, etc, as in the regular A&A maps). I hope I haven’t confused anyone too much.
To conclude, I need to get assistance to place something onto You Tube where you will see me, an ‘old fart’ A&A board gamer, explain & illustrate how one makes their own ‘Great Powers’.

I have four questions here;

1. Does anyone produce a Destroyer unit (piece) for A&A 1914?
2. Has anyone made a 3D printer Destroyer unit (piece) for A&A 1914?
3. Does anyone know the plastic colour ‘recipes’ for the 8 nations colours in A&A 1914?
4. Lastly, does anyone know if you can take some of the playing pieces from A&A 1914 and use that plastic to make a Destroyer unit (piece) with a 3d printer?
   Why the A&A 1914 game does not have/did not include a Destroyer unit (piece) is totally inexplicable and, quite frankly, plain stupid.

Actually, Black Elk, my idea is you make a map board of all ocean spaces which are numbered & have an E-W border movement (N & S being high latitude therefore impassable). The concept is to create new Great Powers and enough neutral territories to approximate the PF values of an A&A map. My design is based on A&A Classic, however, it could be extrapolated to any of the games. The idea is to make an entirely new game board. An additional step which I have devised allows for a random placement of these Great Powers and other Territories so that each game board will be different - even the alignment of the land territories will be randomized. It is necessary, of course, to create, at least, 5 Great Powers and some neutral landmasses (neutral territories). One simply uses the playing pieces of the 5 major WW2 nations. In my home version of this, which I term ‘Allies & Enemies’ (A&E), I made up 7 sets of pieces so I could have up to a 7 player game (though, in RL, this has never occurred). My sets of pieces are mainly lead & pewter miniatures from what was available in the 1980s. I use plastic plane sets from that era for the aircraft. As to Great Powers - I & my old gaming friends from the 80s - there has been 12 Great Powers randomly created (I did all the artwork for consistency of look) - so this random Great Power creation system works (played considerably).
What someone suggested and what I must now do is to make up a you tube video of what & how I made my A&A random map board - how it works & how it changes for each game one would play.
The design pre-supposes a variable number of players (4-7 would be best, although 5 or 6 would be ‘traditional’) each playing on their own OR, alternately, somehow divided into two as equal as possible teams ‘points’ (PF) wise. I made my game designed on a map of sea spaces that are all squares sized to hold sufficient naval units - the land territories being ‘squarish’ in shape, as well. At the time, I was influenced by the off board ‘squares’ for unit placement on the old original A&A Classic map (a really bad design feature, in retrospect). Now, with A&A:WW1, which I recently obtained, I have used my design idea for original Great Powers where I use a hexagonal space map - a better way to do random alignments (as you can do 6 directions to just 4 with a square space map. Plus, in my A&A:WW1 map version, sea spaces will be more important. * Note: in either game (WW1 or WW2) my map design system uses more sea spaces as the maps of the land have absolutely no bearing to the map of the Earth (with Europe, Pacific, etc, as in the regular A&A maps). I hope I haven’t confused anyone too much.
To conclude, I need to get assistance to place something onto You Tube where you will see me, an ‘old fart’ A&A board gamer, explain & illustrate how one makes their own ‘Great Powers’.

It’s been some years? Very infrequent anyway. I just got on to see what’s been going on. So, I added some history of my old A&A customizations. I haven’t played A&A in years (I guess). I did buy both 1940 games then, ofc, I had to make my combined version (mostly some minor PF map changes & specialized starting rules). When I see a map & I think it has inaccuracies, well, it gets changed (lol). Perhaps, I will send in my customization - it isn’t that much different from the original. Lastly, I did make a donation to support & to thank all you regulars for your work here.

I originally designed this unit independent of any other source in the 1980’s when there was only A&A Classic available.
Corvette: move 2 (or 3*) Attack value = 1 and Defence value = 1. Cost is 6 PF.
(* For my A&A variant game & map I give Naval Units a move of 3)
(** I added the Corvette to compliment the original naval units of BB: Att 4 Def 4 +24 PF, Cr: Att 3 Def 3 +18PF & DD: Att 2 Def 2 +12 PF & the CV being Att 2 Def 2 +18 PF plus may carry 2 Fighters OR 1 Bomber)

I originally designed this unit independent of any other source in the 1980’s when there was only A&A Classic available.
Motorized Artillery: move 2 (same as Armor) Attack value = 4 and Defence value = 1. Cost is 7 PF.

I originally designed this unit independent of any other source in the 1980’s when there was only A&A Classic available.
Motorized Infantry: move 2 (same as Armor) Attack Value = 1 Defence value = 2 Cost is 4 PF.

I originally designed this unit independent of any other source in the 1980’s when there was only A&A Classic available.
Artillery: move 1 (same as infantry) Attack value = 4 and Defence value = 1. Cost is 6 PF.

There is a way to have new maps for Axis & Allies where virtually every game would be a different map.
Reference my post in the ‘Other Axis & Allies variants’ section. It is on Pg 2 and is called ‘Creating your own free form A & A nations’. This process requires work to create both a new multi-square Ocean map, a number (minimum 5) of Great Powers (eg Ger, UK, USA, etc), their associated nearby neutral territories & some other neutral territory islands & multi-territory landmasses. A person could use a hexagonal map rather than one of squares (which I did for my free form A&A:1914 game map). The idea is to make up random lands which can be randomly placed on an Ocean map board. The idea is to have Great power PF values that are close to each other in value and to have enough neutral territory values for PF increases. This takes work to create but you won’t be playing A&A on the same map ever again.
(I should find a way to illustrate what I’ve done via uploaded pictures)

@MacNaughton Yes. I have made up random WW1 Great Powers and related neutral territories all of which can be placed on a map of sea zones. In this way the map can change from game to game. This does take work to make the physical components. The game itself offers the parameters ( a statisitacal analysis of the map & PF values) to make up your own map.

@thrasher1 Yes, you can make fictional A & A maps. You can also have variable placement of these fictional maps so that A& A games can have varying maps (to a degree). This is regarding a board game style variation. A computer programme generated random map would necessitate software coding to really have random fictionalized maps.