Advanced Civilization - The Expansion Project

[Zoid]

I found this while surfing the net looking for a online version of the Adv Civ rulebook I lost. Goddamn! This is just too much, awesome project I dl:ed the whole shebang. Now I must find a way to print out this mother of a map. 2x1 meters I contacted a printer downtown but they wanted ~$277 for the printing and another $75 for laminate plus 25% sales tax!!! Bastards!

But I know a guy at the School of Photography and Film, maybe I can print it at their plotter printer and have it laminated there for free

Anyway, have anyone else seen this? Or played it?

[Tellius]

Go for it!!!

Hi,

Yep, I know this project, and it's awesome! Just remember that it's designed to be played with - I hope I remember this minimum amount of players correctly - 8 or more players (up to 17 I think).

I'm the lucky owner of an Epson A3 Photo printer, so I just opened the map file, and printed it on three A3 sheets of paper, which gave me an awesome reslult. I sprayed a fixation on this map first (bought it at a local hobby store, especially made for printing materials), and then started playing. So, if you know anyone with a decent photo printer, that's the way to go without braking the bank.

The game itself is a very good expanison of the Adv Civ game by AH, with more calamties, more trade goods, well, more of everything, but without loosing gameplay balance. One of the best games ever!

Hope you'll give it a try. As a matter of fact, I'm a boardgamer in the first place, and because I like the AH Civ game so much, I decided to give the first Sid Meyer game I found (CTPII) a try, I'm hooked!

Greetz

Tellius

[Zoid]

I have access to a Epson 2100, but there´s a hell of a puzzle putting the mapboard together. You must have a seriously reduced size? Because my test print (on a b/w laser printer) was 18 A3 sheets Did you glue the sheets to some cardboard or did you use a thicker paper? I´m thinking of using either a really thick paper or a standard weight and glue it to some cardboard. Either way fixation is necessary I think.

I´ve played Adv Civ on and off for like 10 years, so I´m really excited to see if this is as good as I think it´ll be

[Tellius]

Corel Draw

hi,

Well, I first opened the file in Corel Draw (don't remember if I had to convert the file first or not), and set the page properties to A3. You can simply set the file to a size of three times the A3 (you can actually see an A3 paper behind the file). For the first print, I aligned the map file so its left border fell together with the left border of the A3 paper, and printed. The 2/3 of the map file that fall out of the page range, simply isn't printed, only the 1/3 that's within the A3 range is printed. Then you 'slide' the map file to the left, so the middle 1/3 of the map file falls within the A3 page, print, and so on. Hope this makes any sense, it's a lot more difficult to explain than to execute. I choose Corel Draw specifically for this reason, I have no idea if you can do the same within Acrobat.

I usually print on some sturdy kind of Epson A3 photo quality paper. For all my boardgames,I've created several wooden plates (1x1 meter), covered them with white sheet (from old bed covers). I put all my boardgame maps on those plates. Then I put transparent acrylic plates over that, to protect the game I'm currently playing. Remember, most 'officially created' wargames (for instance, made by GMT) have maps printed on quite thin papers, so they needed protection while playing anyways.

Hope this helped

Tellius

[Zoid]

Thanks, Tellius I printed out the map yesterday. 24 A3´s on regular paper. I used Adobe Illustrator CS, it had a nifty feature that split up the map in A3 sized chunks. Now I must find some 4 mm hardboard and some adhesive plastics (the kind you can wrap around books). Or is acrylic plates better? It sounds a bit more expensive...

[Tellius]

Acrylic Plates

Hi,

Well, your solution will probably work as good as mine, but I play a LOT of boardgames, so I was looking for a solution that was reusable. If I want to play Barbarossa to Berlin, I put that game's map on the wooden board (you know, with the bedlinnen stretched over it) and then put the transparent acrylic plate over it. That's my playing surface for the ongoing game. Should I like to play Civilization a week later, I use the same materials.

If I remember correctly, I paid 80 Euros for 4 square meters of acrylic plate. I also have 4 squares of 1x1 meters of wooden boards, so for those extremely large games (the wargames of The Gamers for instance), I can play on gaming maps of 4 square meters.

Hope you have fun!

Tellius

[Zoid]

80 € is a bit steep, I think I´ll stick to the adhesive plastics. But thank´s for the tips anyway

[DarkCloud]

*bump* for all interested!

[Wernazuma III]

For those interested and who know German, I made my own Advanced Civ Expansion (not the map which you'd have to borrow from my friends at the Civproject. )

http://www.wernazuma.net/ahciv.htm

[Zoid]

The cards look weird in german

[Wernazuma III]

Thank God they're not in Swedish.

[Zoid]

You mean like this?

[Wernazuma III]

Caray, that's one really weird card - though I'm not sure that it's the Swedish that causes the sensation...

[Zoid]

It´s a mutation card from a discontinued game called NeoBunnies. It´s basically about different clans of mutated bunnies that wage war on each other. It´s a hoot