Well to reconstruct AAp40 with historical is a major undertaking…why?
Because it’s got too many sea zones and that makes it harder to playtest once the proper historical locations are found.
Thats why i kept the sea zones like they are in AA50 because i have much more experience playing that and my playtest teams prefer AA50. Its better to start at 1939 because information is much more available than say June 1940.
The other problem is the IPC distribution is not historical. Its in many wrong spaces and based on ‘other factors’ to script some idea of what is historical with little knowledge.
Then you have problem of the global 1940 setup, so really you need to have AAE40 and study the 6/40 situation and balance with a setup using both games. It is incorrect to balance one game and then another latter because that causes too many changes to make each one mate the other, id rather study what actually existed and reformulate that as one setup study.
Too me its better to start from scratch and redo the entire game by stripping it down and rebuilding it with only the best ideas. Thats what i plan on doing latter and making an upgraded version of my 1939 ideas.
