BIG A&A variant

I liked very much "bells of war". Their map covers only the europe and surrounding but the larger scale makes the strategy more interesting. The game is on board game geek and there is a partial picture of the map.

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/10952

From memory, the map was around 3'x4'. Not really sure. The rules looked almost the same but they played with d12 instead of d6.

Personally, I would have made the map cut in the middle of the pacific. So that the US and Canada does not get cut in half. In axis and allies, they leaved the pacific intact since there was an important war with the japanese.

I imagine that this map will be played with the original axis and allies miniature. If you use cardboard tokens, you can stack your units more and reduce the size of the territories to hold them which will increase the number of territories for more detailed strategy.

I don`t remember completely the A&A board, but I think there is much more territory than the original game, which is a bit better.

By the way, can't you just use large hex for the sea movement, because I always thought that the player could take advantage of the polygons to make short cut. No need to place a small hex map. Just large hex could be OK ( around 8 hex high ). You just need to do some minor adjustment like fusioning a slice of an hex with a complete hex. Or make the Hex border stop directly at the border of the country.