Railroad

Play testing has ended. The rules are now available at the Axis & Allies Global 1940 House Rules Expansion thread, pg. 1 (see Optional Rule No. 22).

@SGT-Pitbull

yep this is a nice addition. Only 2 games so far. First game US was the one that used it most in N Afirca with the Armored Inf.

Too weak to hit Europe in force so took the long route :)

One thing about SSR is they get Mass Tanks a turn later and then Total War, so it’s still a better buy to have Tanks.

Also good to have at least 2 or 3 to pair with the Grds though. Right now I’m finding them useful in Centarl Asia in case JPN gets uppity with the NAP :)

Hi, i searched the forum but failed to find anything about railroads and IC’s.
Has anyone thought about implementing IC’s and railroads? IC’s you perhaps could built for 12 IPC and you can place max amount of stuff onto the zone.

Railroads would be a bit more interesting, idea is to start from your capital buying railroads connecting it to adjacent territory for an x amount of IPC so you can move infantry and artillery 2 zones.

Would these 2 ideas do any good to 1914 version? I know that railroads were a big factor in the war to bring supplies and men to the front.

@Faramir Sorry! I didn’t get the notification to your post! Very nice work Faramir!

@ampdrive

Doesn’t take you to his latest but should at least start having em pop up. or it did for me :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5IB3qvYLeI

@The-Captain Yes, that’s a nice setup!

I just assumed railway movement was considered in the movement. Those are pretty large distances to cover and it was still the era of steam, not bullet trains.

German armor, especially heavies mostly moved by rail since long road marches were hard on equipment.

It is a good point regarding different scales of rail though. Perhaps a movement penalty where armor can only move 1 on foreign soil (excluding Africa). That reflects rail movement.

Personally, I think blitzing is too powerful anyway. Maybe for mech inf as a fast moving scout, but not armor later in the war.

Yes, Blitzkrieg in France, but that was lightly armored fast moving tanks that wouldn’t survive once T-34s were on the battlefields. Bad roads, long distances and formidable opponents cut that out. US was bogged down in Normandy fight through hedgerows and ran into problems after since French rail was decimated in bombing.

for AA50 i have developed this. My feeling is the map has alot more territories, and it would take longer to play because of this. To facilitate a quicker result this was playtested and works.

Strategic Movement:

Each player’s capital territory has a value equal to half its IPC value, which can facilitate additional movement of a players land forces. Every time the Home territory is bombed by SBR the total movement of Strategic Movement is reduced one point for every 2 points of damage to the home factory.
    For example: Germany has 5 SR points because it has a 10 IPC home territory. If it was bombed for 5 points of factory damage, you could now only move 2 land units by strategic redeployment.

Procedure: after placement move one land unit a total of 2 additional spaces for each SR point. Units moved can be newly created units or units involved in combat or any unit whether it moved already or attacked. Units can even move across one sea zone to another controlled territory as long as you control the sea zone with one warship.

Repair of damaged factory also changes this value depending on current damage or investment for repair.