@DoManMacgee Oh no, it’s not finished, it’s in progress. I need to figure out the Collect Income too, and that is not easy. We have the GDP that change all the time, and also the Military Outlays change from month to month. I don’t even know for sure how many aircrafts were made because the estimates differ from source to source. Some say US made 30 000 aircrafts but no more than 2000 were operational at any time, so where did all the planes go? And the estimates of casualties on the Eastern Front differ one million men give or take. In my Blog that is like 10 Infantry. I can’t make an accurate historical correct Blog if I don’t know the correct numbers.
This Blog have surprisingnly many wievs but not so much diskussion. Lets look into how I solved the US entry. In the real war Japan dow’ed USA, and then Germany dow’ed USA some days after. But the Turn order in A&A, which I follow strictly, is Germany, Japan, USA. Also a dow should be made in that players turn. That left me with a few choices:
-Round 10 winter 1941/42. Jap dow US. Next US attack Germany. Round 11 spring: Germany dow USA. Now attacking nazis is not bad, but this was not historically correct. Germany did in fact dow USA before strict neutral USA started attacking the Axis.
to solve this I could let Germany dow USA in Round 9 fall. Also not historically correct, since in fact Japan dow’ed USA before Germany dow’ed USA. A very importent point is that Japan would’nt dow anyone before the german attack on Moscow was resolved. IF success Japan would attack USSR far east, but if failure Japan would attack USA.
To change the Turn order was never even considered. That would mess up everything.
My solution was, as you know, to let all Axis players dow USA simultaneously on Japans turn. My rational for this is the Berlin Pact, signed in Berlin september 1940 by Germany, Italy and Japan, and later the other Axis, and this pact was an agreement to dow USA all toghether at the same time. One for all, all for one. I don’t see any other way to do it. A slight violation of the OOB rules yes, but also the less of many evils. But I am surprised it was no questions. All wievers just accepted my solutin. I miss that kind of discussions. I guess you have to be a super nerd of a history buff to engage in that. And I figure the casual A&A players are not. They just want a good time playing a board game
