Coastal Ships

When reseaeching it say all unit get +1, should this be read as all exsisting units gets an auto upgrade? It also says reseaeched weapons must be built in major factory, so you can no longer build “normal mech” in a minor factories for the rest of the game?

I was wondering exactly how and what you bought for the Vichy France control markers and units.

@ampdrive said in German's take Holland on 2nd impulse.. DEI navy is rolled for?:

@tmtm1 What does 1st and 2nd impulse mean?

Germany gets 2 turns on first turn

So I tried to address a similar problem with the Monroe Doctrine. My group and I still have not gotten Monroe reaction by US down to 100% because the rule designer clearly didn’t think or test this shit out enough. (not shocked based on responses).

Non allies attack Americas: I’ve been told that the US doesn’t actually DoW by definitions of the words but take military action while at peace, think of it as a proxy war but both sides are directly involve like the Suez Crisis in real life. US may go down and engage and remove any hostile nations in the Americas and then they end up annexing the territories they took since they are active by rules and thus US was able to gain income while still being at peace.

France or Commonwealth (or any other official Allies): I put in the house rule that they cannot attack the Americas because the game doesn’t allow nations inside Alliances to fight each other so unless Monroe is the only situation where US will fight French and Commonwealth troops, I tell my group they simply do not wish to piss off the US and thus cannot attack the Americas.

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Historically, the meaning of the term “capital ship” has evolved over time.  Broadly speaking it refers to the most powerful category of warship in a navy, and in its original usage (dating back to WWI and/or the 1920s) it was a term that encompased both categories of dreadnought-type vessels: battleships and battlecruisers.  This was at a time when it was still believed that naval battles would ultimately be decided by slugging matches between fleets of heavily-armoured warships armed with heavy artillery.  Battlecruisers went out of fashion after WWI, with just a few more being completed from the 1920s onward.  Battleships improved in speed, and by the 1930s and 1940s they had (in a sense) merged with battlecruisers to produce “fast battleships” which combined the speed of battlecruisers with the firepower and protection of battleships.  During WWII, the aircraft carrier displaced battleships as the most important pieces on the naval chessboard, and they became regarded as the new “capital ships” of navies.  Carriers were themselves (arguably) displaced in the capital-ship role by ballistic missile submarines when they arrived on the scene in the 1950s and 1960s – but the point is arguable because CVNs and SSBNs have very different missions and capabilities, and because the largest CVNs (like the Nimitz class carriers) are huge and enormously expensive vessels, even when compared with big SSBNs.

Uncrustable mentioned that in Global War battleships and carriers are both considered capital ships, and Cmdr Jennifer indicated this also being the case in A&A.  This certainly works from a historical perspective, since the former were considered capital ships at the beginning of the war and the latter at its end.

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As Veqryn is no longer active in TripleA and hasn’t visited this forum for seven years just - out of curiosity - let me ask please:
Have you created TripleA maps in the past? Or are you going to start from scratch?

@General-6-Stars Yea exactly. Is in there. As far as a rule-booklet that someone mentioned, that should be in a file further down.