Suggestion for USW in A&A 1914:
USA has no fixed war Entry in the game.
It collects 20 IPCs income every Round without beeing allowed to build or move troops.
USA was never a true neutral state. Because of that, it sends from R1 on (after collecting its income) 10 IPCs to BE (5) and France (5).
This financial help will continue every Round as long as GE won´t declare USW or
the US enters war because of the fall of the tzar (first economical collapse of Russia).
From R2 on Germany can declare USW to stop this american help. At the beginning
of every Round it can roll for every sub that is located in the historical USW-SZ 2,3,4,7,8,9,15 one dice. The result will be splitted up between USA and BE. (If uneven BE will get the higher lost)
IF US suffer two times because of this they will declare war against the CPs.
Is this with the limitation on IPCs per dice in effect for USW?
You know what would be cool….
If the US had to load those IPCs it gives to France and the UK on to Transports and actually move the IPCs over to France and the UK.
So germany has a reason to go bonkers with subs to blow up cash.
So the US can only buy transports, and can only load them with 5 IPCs each and can ship them over to Europe
(use US control markers to denote the IPC cargo)|
(One transport can only hold 5 IPCs)
The War to End All Wars uses this as part of its game mechanic, except for all nations.
The only problem, for me, is that transports really represent the sea-lift capability of a nation, not so much its merchant fleet (though the ships may be one and the same). This would explain why in other A&A versions convoys are represented by sea zones that can can cut into the IPC income of the owner nation.
Though the U.S. enters on R4 (1917, roughly), it took nearly a year for U.S. troops to arrive in Europe and really begin to fight in earnest. The Naval Act of 1916 authorized the buildup of the navy, but it was going to take a few years to build up to that. The Washington Naval Treaty scrapped a lot of those ideas anyhow. Point being, the U.S. did not become the economic powerhouse overnight like it did in World War II. So I am one of those in favor of not getting too carried away with U.S. IPC production.
Perhaps more important that U.S. production (the U.S. troops used a lot of British and French equipment anyhow, albeit some license built in the U.S.) was the amount of money loaned to the Allies. And they in turn were loaning it to Russia! Do you see a problem there?? :-D
