WO 2020 Bonus Pack available

[Tuomo]

As per Chas on Consimworld: http://www.multimanpublishing.com/Preorder/tabid/59/ProductID/374/Default.aspx

As others have said, board 13ab is really interesting. Love the graphic style; this is what I want to emulate in my own stuff. Points of interest:

• Multilevel sewer system. I checked the rules and couldn't find anything that keeps one from moving up/down levels in a sewer, so phew.
• As I stated before, the tragic failure to make the ground level of 13aP3 (which I suppose is 13bFF3) into Level 0, thus turning that building into a glorious multi-level building, which always makes scenarios better
• Thankfully, a return to the old style wall artwork
• UN-thankfully, use of the "felt texture" orchards, which are just unnecessary and meh.
• Authentic Battle Damage (TM) on the K11 building
• A completely unnecessary jog up the hill for the road in E13-F12-F11. I will forever hate it.
• A Perry Sez just waiting to be asked: does an AFV in J19 get Hull Down with respect to K18, due to the LITTLE TINY part of the wall that seems to go up the hill? This is the kind of built-in rules confusion one should try to avoid, IMO.
• What I would wager is the smallest "building" ever to grace an ASL hex, in 13aP18. That's an outhouse for sure. (Fortunately there's bigger buildings in the hex, but yikes).
• Other OCD triggers like the way the hill crestline doesn't quite enclose the entire building in F18

Kvetching aside, this one's a beauty.

 

[Gordon]

The review of a true board connoisseur. I imagine this review taking place next to a fireplace with Tom (in his smoking jacket) sipping from his brandy snifter and occasionally puffing on a cigar.

 

[M.Koch]

I fell in love on the first glance
A vehicular entrance from J1 to J2 would have been nice

 

[Robin Reeve]

Sewer manholes are a nice feature.

 

[Houlie]

I am curious -- on a lark I looked for 13a on the VASL board download site and noticed that 9a/b was the last one made available. Is 10a/b - 13a/b development in flight? If so, is there an estimate on their availability? Many thanks to the elves for all they do!

 

[Perry]

I fell in love on the first glance
A vehicular entrance from J1 to J2 would have been nice

J2 is a Factory vehicular entrance; B23.742

 

[King Scott]

J2 is a Factory vehicular entrance; B23.742

...which means that hex J2 has 4 vehicular entrances, H17 has three entrances, and H18 has two...that's a lot of roll up doors and loading docks! Can we call this board The Ruhr?

Semper Fi!
Scott

 

[M.Koch]

J2 is a Factory vehicular entrance; B23.742

Totally forgott about that rule
Thanks for the advice, Perry.
Still i like graphic vehicular entrances ?

 

[bprobst]

A Perry Sez just waiting to be asked: does an AFV in J19 get Hull Down with respect to K18, due to the LITTLE TINY part of the wall that seems to go up the hill? This is the kind of built-in rules confusion one should try to avoid, IMO.

Where is the rules confusion? B9.6 makes it crystal clear that neither J18/J19 nor J18/K19 are "hillside walls". You can't have a wall vertex be a hillside wall and the rest of the wall isn't. That would be a nonsensical conclusion to draw.

 

[commissarmatt]

The review of a true board connoisseur. I imagine this review taking place next to a fireplace with Tom (in his smoking jacket) sipping from his brandy snifter and occasionally puffing on a cigar.

That's how I always picture Tom.

 

[BigAl737]

The review of a true board connoisseur. I imagine this review taking place next to a fireplace with Tom (in his smoking jacket) sipping from his brandy snifter and occasionally puffing on a cigar.

That's how I always picture Tom.

That’s exactly what Tom is like. At least from the quick glimpses I get when he opens the trap door to throw down potato peelings to us VASL elves scribing away in the dimly lit cellar.

 

[Gordon]

 

[pcourt]

I just got my WO Bonus Pack for 2020 and are map 13a and 13b identical? Was this intended or is that a printing issue. Or is there some really subtle difference I missed.

Thanks.

 

[Michael R]

I just got my WO Bonus Pack for 2020 and are map 13a and 13b identical? Was this intended or is that a printing issue. Or is there some really subtle difference I missed.

Thanks.

All of these maps are like that. Just a few hexes along the edges are different.

 

[klasmalmstrom]

All of these maps are like that. Just a few hexes along the edges are different.

...and the hex coordinate letters...

 

[pcourt]

All of these maps are like that. Just a few hexes along the edges are different.

Thanks so much for pointing that out. I just hadn't noticed.

 

[Spencer Armstrong]

Thanks so much for pointing that out. I just hadn't noticed.

It's so they can abut either half-board edge of a standard geo, which have different woods positions.

I wish we had adopted a better naming convention than 13a/13b...it makes it sound like two boards, when it's one with flexibility. I liked 13x but now that's in use for the modded version of 10 and 17, so guess we're stuck.

 

[Michael Dorosh]

It's so they can abut either half-board edge of a standard geo, which have different woods positions.

I wish we had adopted a better naming convention than 13a/13b...it makes it sound like two boards, when it's one with flexibility. I liked 13x but now that's in use for the modded version of 10 and 17, so guess we're stuck.

The convention seems clear enough:

a/b = alternate orientations for double-wide
z = modified geo

What would your suggestion be, out of curiosity?

 

[klasmalmstrom]

...I liked 13x but now that's in use for the modded version of 10 and 17, so guess we're stuck.

Wasn't that 10z and 17z?

 

[Spencer Armstrong]

Wasn't that 10z and 17z?

Shoot, you're right. Then I will return to calling the Fort boards XXx. Take that, excessive characters!