Preview 3: Map, Components, and Units

The usual discussion about how many of a unit does each piece represent.

Each game’s scale is different, so what are your thoughts are how many of itself does each unit represent? An infantry unit, for example, is odd. It’s certainly not a field army but still too big for a division. It’s slightly too big for a corps though. Maybe two divisions work?

What do you think for other units? Thank you!

By the way, I find it ludicrous that the French Navy, that weak thing, somehow has more battleships than the second most powerful navy at the time, Germany. And France has the same amount of battleships as the Royal Navy, the top navy in the world. Crazy!

Krieghung, thanks for the quick response.  That poor Russian battleship in SZ12 has to thread the needle through SZ11 and SZ10 even if there are no ships there and I guess once the UK Navy is gone in SZ29, you just need to start ground pounding your way through Ottoman to get into the fight.

@oztea:

At this point in history fighters weren’t really ready to do any real damage to boats yet. Their speeds were very low and cross winds were very hazardous. Also planes of the time couldn’t carry very much in the way of firepower, so hurting a ship was outside their scope.

Yes, all good points.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axis_powers#German-Japanese_Axis-cooperation

Thanks!

Same as before except:

All new ground units are placed in the capital.

All new ships are placed in tts with a naval base.

UK can place some units in India (not ships), but we don’t know if there’s a limit to this.

There is no production in Africa, which is why some think its pretty pointless having Africa in the game at all.

My suggested house rule is that any power holding African tt can build a limited number of “Askaris” there on a turn; basically native infantry who must be accompanied at all times by “regular” troops. They cost 2 and fight at -1 on attack and defence (can still be boosted by artillery).
Without them, Africa will have fewer units than tts and see very little action.

@FieldMarshalGames:

How does production work?  What are the limits?  Are there stacking limits?

Can you / how do you produce in Africa?

@Shakespeare:

Exactly how did the convoy rules work in Axis Allies Europe?

Weren’t there convoy boxes all over the North Atlantic?

Couldn’t we apply them here?

There were “Convoy territories” for lack of a better term that could be denied by German Subs that went through them.

Why don’t you pip counters all go away and play Yahtzee?