@buddytoliver Yeah but he’s got a busy day-job, so sometimes it takes him a few days or even a week to get back in touch.

@Imperious-Leader cool. I just wanted to make sure anyone who saw this thread knew that link was to a stolen copy of someone’s work.

@Imperious-Leader As a note, I’m 90% sure that those people at x-RayPad.com don’t have the rights to sell that map, and you have to buy it from Sired. He’s just a guy so he can’t fight them for having stolen it, but I’m pretty sure they don’t have a deal with him to use his artwork, and he put a LOT of work into it.

Someone asked for more closeups. The tricky things I found were regions that have troops from multiple regions. Also the cruisers and destroyers are hard to tell apart from the picture, as well as the tactical bombers. I’ve put letters next to the boats and a letter T on the tactical bombers. I haven’t done another print test with the latest though so I might need to be more explicit with the bombers.
Other Notes:

• I put started money location on the scoreboard on the top.
• I put “little” flags on countries which start out occupied in the global game. For example, Hong Kong is owned by GB, but occupied at the start of the global tournament rules.
• I put important information on the sides of the map such as victory conditions.
• After doing a tournament and seeing how other people play I also bought a bunch of colored dice and painted them so that only the numbers that “win” have pips, and then matched the board to the colors. it makes it SUPER easy to grab a handful of green and red dice, roll them, and see how many hits were scored.
• My son designed and 3D printed some air and water bases and industrial complexes. The first take were way too big, but this set came outs well scaled
  
  
  
  
  
  

@SGT-Pitbull I begged him to let me pay him more for the PSD files but he resisted. I guess someone stole it and posted a high-res version online. I talked to the company and got them to take down the high res version, but I still wasn’t able to get the layered PSD files. I ended up having to do a lot of hacking on my own to get the countries split up, but I was able to tweak the map for easy tournament rules setup. Everything is color coded and shows what units set up there, etc. it would have saved me literally at least a dozen hours if I could have just grabbed the layers. Pro Tip: If you download the PDF of the official Axis and Allies rules you can open them in Illustrator (or Affinity Designer which is what I use) and select the unit pictures and circular disks for flags and such and just copy-paste them as vectors! Screen Shot 2020-01-17 at 8.18.27 AM.png

@SGT-Pitbull Jaysun Gray siredblood is his email at yahoo-dot-com

@M36 Yeah you’re right. Thanks. Maybe that was a house rule that we let people choose, but definitely in 1940 you can’t choose…

@Panther Thank you! That’s what I was missing. Much appreciated.

@M36

“They can’t participate in any other battles during that turn, including a battle in the territory from which they were scrambled.” From the 2nd Edition rulebook.

That makes sense, but still doesn’t EXPLICITLY state they have to fight in the sea. There’s also this:

They are treated as normal defending units in their sea zones

1. An Amphibious Assault has two parts
2. Scrambled plane can defend against an Amphibious Assault
3. A scrambled plane can NOT fight on the land after fighting at the sea.

But nowhere that I can find does it explicitly state that the defender has to choose to have the planes defend in the sea battle, so couldn’t they choose to fight in the land battle.

I’m not sure when this would occur anyway, because if the scramblers win then the attacking transports are sunk so there is no land battle,

Well, the example we had UK was landing with 2 cruisers and one transport in Denmark.

Germany scrambled a plane from Western Germany. The cruiser had a choice of being in the sea battle and fighting the scrambled planes, or sending a barrage into the land battle.

If they chose not to defend the transports, then the scrambled plane could easily destroy the transports, so they had to choose to defend the transports instead of sending a barrage.

The scrambled plane probably couldn’t take out two cruisers, and the land assault half of the amphibious assault was pretty week, so Germany wanted to scramble the plans to repel the land half of the amphibious assault, which would have allowed them to easily hold Denmark (1 plane and 2 infantry defending against 1 tank and 1 infantry).

We ruled that while the amphibious assault rules are not specific they certainly imply that the scrambled planes can ONLY fight in the nautical engagement, not on the second half of the amphibious assault.

p16:

These air units can be scrambled to help friendly units in adjacent sea zones that have come under attack. They can also be scrambled to resist amphibious assaults from adjacent sea zones, whether or not the territory being assaulted is the territory containing the air base. They may defend against the enemy ships conducting the amphibious assault even if friendly ships are not present.

There’s no glossary but here’s the best definition I could find of Amphibious Assault (p14):

An amphibious assault takes place when you attack a coastal territory or island group from a sea zone by offloading land units from transports into that target territory (or make a joint attack with both seaborne units that are offloading and other units from one or more neighboring territories).

Based on this definition the “amphibious assault” includes BOTH the sea battle AND the land battle. So, if air units can be scrambled to “resist amphibious assaults from adjacent sea zones”, it stands to follow that those planes be used for the land battle OR the sea battle?

We’ve been playing such that the planes can ONLY be used in the naval battle, but the way the rules are written seems to allow those planes to fight in the costal land battle if they choose.

Thoughts?