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Favorite House Rules for Axis & Allies

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panzerlord1939
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Hi everyone,

I really enjoy creating and testing house rules for Axis & Allies, especially Global 1940, and I’d love to hear what the community thinks works best.
Some questions to get the discussion going:
What are your favorite house rules and why?
Do you use rules mainly for balance, historical accuracy, or fun/speed of play?
Are there any house rules you tried that didn’t work as expected?
I’m always looking for new ideas and I’d love to exchange thoughts or even collaborate on refining house rules.
Looking forward to hearing your opinions!
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@hengst This house rules forum is full of ideas. To avoid scripted games you need a varaiety ways to win or lose a game in a reasonable amount of time ,eg 8 to 12 rounds.BBR and 3G40 are rulesets that encourage you to win by achieving various victory objectives.(not just victory cities)
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Here is an Italian rule (offset to Axis Vichy rule).

Italian Co-Belligerent Army / Italian Social Republic

ICBA is a pro-Allied Italian government created after Rome is captured. At the same time, ISR, a remnant and a pro-Axis goverment of Mussolini’s regime is created and seated out of Northern Italy. ICBA eligible territories are all Italian controlled territories, EXCEPT Northern Italy and Italian controlled territories with German units. These territories are treated same as pro-Allied neutrals. All other forces are part of the Italian Social Republic. ISR becomes the new Italy and starts with 0 IPCs. On the each ISR turn, they CAN get up to 5 IPCs from Germany. For the ICBA, any movement is done after Vichy.
**Procedure: **
After Rome is captured, the following happens:
1. All ICBA forces (land/sea/air) standfast and defend against Axis attacks.
2. ICBA land forces can move during the non-combat phase.
3. If an ICBA territory with units is occupied by Allied player, no new units are created, but any ICBA infantry units are converted to the occupying Allied power, and all others disband.
4. ISR units may move as normal. ISR can be ordered to attack ICBA units.
5. All ICBA units return to Axis if Rome is liberated. ICBA cannot be re-created.
(Optional: Any ICBA controlled Allied territories return to original owner, non-infantry units disband.)
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The CP won the game for various reasons.

An inexperienced player was France+UK.
Russia made a mistake on its southern flank that allowed the ottomans to can open for the AustroHungarians.

The bonus units were probably too much, but it was very fun having a sub pop up for the axis once in a while and the implications it created for the allies.

Their usually guaranteed naval dominance was nibbled away at.
The more free units they got as the game went on, the more it became too much for the allies.

I may change the rule to a one time roll at the end of each CP turn with a chart like this:

Once per game you can roll on the special Centeral Powers Conscription chart

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I’d prefer Germany-Ottomans, Italy-Austria & France-Russia.
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Any good house rules for convoy raiding?

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Right - but using the latest rules for straights - you can make a rule “subs cannot conduct convoy raids while inside protected straits” - so the subs would have to come out to make the raid and remain in that zone for the rest of the turn.
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Attached are the D12 Unit Rules and National Advantages I use for a 1941 set up of HBG’s 1939 MAP.

National Advantages are a combination of good ideas from this forum over the years.

Unit Stats Global Map D12.xls
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You make a good point there. Hadn’t really put that much mathematical thought into it.
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If two(2) Allied pieces are moved they must be of different origins(USSR, UK and US.)
Limits are … no ICs and no more than 1 Bmr per side(Axis & Ally), not country.

Met a guy the other day who plays with this rule. He said it makes the game more flexible, like bidding, but more flex for more players(2 to 5.)

His usual group plays RR, SS, and 1 hit BB(otherwise the extra pieces are too often BBs.)
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I think I’ll try to talk my local opponents into trying this one.
With all the variations we keep trying Hillary will probably be
president by the time we try this one. :P

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