Post date: May 17, 2017 8:30:19 PM
Download 'boards-GIA-Overlays.zip' from VASSAL: Squad Leader, under 'Custom and special boards'. See the readme.txt in the package for details and installation instructions.
The package includes overlays from G.I.: Anvil of Victory (GIA) and minor corrections for three boards. The included fourteen boards provide the overlays for seventy-one GIA scenarios. A list of scenarios is provided in Section II and changes to boards are provided in Section III of the readme.txt in the package. I hope you enjoy the addition of these scenarios to VASSAL: Squad Leader.
Minor Corrections:
bd04 - correct overlay orientation for St. Goar Assault.
bd06 - reinstate LOS functionality, board was missing the .map file.
bd10 - retrograde to Crescendo of Doom by adding stairwells, removing forest paths and removing Rowhouse hexside blocks. Update .map file to current SK-style board from some prior version. Note Rowhouses still meet the definition of Rowhouses (155.3). They were removed to avoid confusion of Crescendo of Doom players unfamiliar with this GIA rule.
These supplemental boards have a small (usually 20kb or less) .gif added for each overlay, keeping the board file size small and requiring modification to only fourteen boards. Both players must have the boards installed when playing.
As with all overlays, the LOS does not update and uses the underlying board, incorrectly reporting LOS on overlays. Players must determine LOS using their own judgement.
I worked to a standard of playability because of time constraints. Accordingly, there is some blurring on rotated overlays (ie flipping 60° or 120°), particularly noticeable in the co-ordinates. Also, a board's hexes are not identically shaped with variations of a pixel or two. At times the overlay hexes do not align with the boards. However the overlay terrain is accurately presented and playable.