@wmman09:
I believe the perfect game is one where everyone has a good time! What fun is it to work out the perfect formula that works 100 percent of the time. Or what fun is a perfectly balanced game where if everyone does everything 100 percent correct it always ends in a draw. If that is what we wanted, we would all spend 10 hours playing tic tac toe instead of AA. LOL. I am not that good, but getting better all the time and I ALWAYS enjoy playing and trying new things. Sometimes I have to be happy with my own personal victory instead of destroying my opponent. I can be very happy delaying the win of a superior opponent instead of falling to him in round 4-5. :) As long as there are dice rolls and human opponents we always have a chance to win and can ALWAYS choose to have a great time.
I second this notion. We added tech to the game as well for more variance. The fact that it can throw everything out of balance and new strategies have to be formed around the technology you have. We are using AA50 Tech trees. Can anyone say heavy bombers and paratroopers. Pretty sick.
Uhm, one thing i liked that we do as a standard was that bombers could be used as a transport. Only 1 friendly infantry and it can be dropped off into friendly spaces.