Posts made by Titus

@vodot High praise from you!

Starting a new post here for my on going custom ruleset for Global 1940. I will include my rule changes, house rules and some game reports as I playtest. I will also upload screen shots of my custom map as I make adjustments to it.
The overall goal of this custom ruleset is to expand the economy, add more strategy options, include oil as a resource (new POI’s on the map) and change the win condtions to give clear steps toward victory.

Here is the med on my custom map. I’ve adjusted all teams IPC’s by approximatly 10% as you can see Morocco is up to 2IPC and Southern Italy is up to 4.

Work in progress Trans Siberian Railroad

No games played on the new map yet as this is still an early work in progress.

@vodot Looking good!!

@marc131 Here is a drive link with the XCF file and the raw map file.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1T0ta6maV3rIRHLilHiYfl1ThUgR4dgP4?usp=sharing

Hey everyone,
Sharing my global game now that i’ve spent a good amount of effort customizing it.

1. Custom Map:
   I traced @Tjoek 's map in a website program called “inkarnate” and colored it myself. Then in Gimp I added roundels and labels to everything again using Tjoek’s roundels page for the base roundels. The map is just a tad larger than the OOB map as I unforuntly don’t have a huge space for the setup table. I really like the way it turned out visually as I love the more simple look. This was printed at 200dpi (a little low imo) from an online service in the US called Smartpress on .40 Styrene. It cost $150.00 shipped.
   
   

2. Custom Table:
   Table is built out of 2x4’s and plywood. Nothing fancy just a big flat surface.

3. Custom Chart Board/magnetic roundels:
   A small magnetic white board with my custom charts printed on vinyl applied to it. The magnetic roundels are my design as well and are 3d printed.
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4. Battle Board:
   3d printed base with a vinyl printed sticker on top designed by me. It incorperates the tech units and combined arms into it.

5. Money Chips:
   These are just cheap chips from amazon and I use white for 1 green for 2 red for 5 and blue for 10. Way nicer in the hand than paper money.

6. Magnetic Units:
   Small magnets 3x1mm glued to almost all planes (japan tac bombers needed the larger 3x2 because of the wheels) using ca glue and activator to set them up quickly. A lot of work to get them all done but very rewarding. Carriers got holes drilled and 3x2 magnets inserted as close to the surface of the deck as I could to get the planes to stick nicely to them.
   

7. Flight Stands:
   These are made from 3mm thum nuts and 3mm acrylic rod. I designed a number of jigs for accurate cutting, gluing and magnet gluing to get them as cleanly done as possible. They have a 3x2mm magnet glued to the top.

8. Storage:
   All of the unit storage boxes are custom designed to hold chips and roundels nicely. My original designs allowed for all of the bins to fit back in the game boxes but for ease of use I eneded up making more boxes/changing the shape so they no longer would go back into the game boxes.
   
   

9. Troop Placards/Placard Markers:
   These are a 3d printed base with another label applied to them. I did crop/adjust the flags so they would all be the same dimensions and I took a lot of liberty with the Anzac one (AUS and NZ mashed up). The markers are the same flag just double sided and small enough to fit into territories nicely.
   

10. Facilities and Neutral Troops:
    All of the facilities are of my design and are all 3d printed with a .2 nozzle. I did keep them small so they didn’t occupy too much board space. The neutral troops are nice as they blend into the space but still represent the troops in a tactile way.
    

11. Roundels:
    These are just a simple 20mm circle 3d printed with a 19mm laminated sticker attached. These were punched with a “3/4 paper punch”. Very time consuming but the result is hard to argue with.

@vodot @CentralCommando Thanks guys! Exited to see Vodot’s global work coming up. Your aa50 stuff is awesome.

@Titus I’ve just sent out this file to be printed a bit larger than OOB. I made it using Tojak’s map as a template. Do you have any advice on uploading images that look good despite the dimension limits on this site?
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@vodot Just as I sent my standard map out for printing! You bully! Looking forward to your work! I finally have a global setup and am working my way through my first game.

@chrisbump86 You are welcome! I will be posting a new version soon for global as i’ve finally got a copy. Many days of customizing are coming up.

@Wolz9122 I used 3x1mm for all of my planes and a 3x2 on all of the flight stands. I didn’t find them too big.

@chrisbump86 I have attached a PDF of the outlines here. I scanned the battleboard on my printer and selected them in gimp which was super easy.

Unit Outlines.pdf

@FranceNeedsMorePower thank you!! Glad you like them! you can have a print shop make it for you. I had a map printed on .040 styrene that turned out sweet from a company called smartpress. 150cm by 78cm only
Cost 75 bucks. I can send you the full file if you’d like

Just for fun I made these maps in Inkarnate/Gimp. I really like how they turned out.

@CentralCommando I’ll see how it looks! I’m trying to match the Renagade dice colors and the tan is defintaly the odd one out.

@CentralCommando Thank you! I actaully have a new version that im uploading now.

@CentralCommando
The NO’s need to be achived just by the overall axis or allies team not the idividualy nation. If Italy captures India then Japan still gets the NO

@vodot Fixed, thank you! I used the web app inkarnate which is a D&D map maker tool which is incredibly useful for that purpose and others. I can import “stamps” so I imported the aa50 map to trace the landmasses and borders. The tool has lots of built in map making features so I didn’t have to do much for that just selecting settings/painting. I exported the finished map and added the text and roundels in gimp. Inkarnate is sweet for map making and I used it to make the Battle Deck cards as well.

Just realized I totally forgot capitals LOL.

@vodot I made a fully custom map using the changes I used from this thread. I made it using Inkarnate/Gimp.
UPDATE 11/22/25 added VC and some shadows to make text more readable.
full quality download

Posting my custom battle board! I have it printed and applied to a peice of plastic but I have just attached the image here.

Here is the map file if you want it!