G40 Balance Mod - Rules and Download

I dont want to tie it up to sz 5 or amur. They will get +2 even without amur.

One idea of BM3 seems to be to have made Russia stronger. I think the present construction is pretty neat in giving Russia extra income, but also giving both benefits and draw-backs with DOWs from either side. The construction is simplified in P2V, but to my eye it’s not an improvement.

@trulpen said in G40 Balance Mod 3.0 - Rules and Download:

One idea of BM3 seems to be to have made Russia stronger. I think the present construction is pretty neat in giving Russia extra income, but also giving both benefits and draw-backs with DOWs from either side. The construction is simplified in P2V, but to my eye it’s not an improvement.

I agree.

I have posted before that I thought the best option was to have a USSR DOW nullify Mongolia but it wasn’t supported.

I would agree with that. Or atleast R shouldn’t be able to enter Korea without nullifying the pact, like when supporting a US-landing. The logic is since that’s an japanese original territory. Maybe it should go for Manchuria and Jehol as well?

@oysteilo said in G40 Balance Mod 3.0 - Rules and Download:

It should be possible to tweek/replace the sz5/amur objective for USSR:

2 IPC if there is peace between Japan and USSR
2 IPC if USSR declears war against Japan and there are no USSR units in Manchuria and/or Korea.
4 IPC if japan declares war on USSR

The second part allows USSR to enter parts of China and fight Japan there. The penalty is just associated with manchuria and Korea

Why penalize Russia from not going into a territory that’s Japan control when there at war with that country ? Even if it was a Chinese original.

Going to be playing my very first game with the balance mod tomorrow and had a question about one of the NOs. The UK NO regarding subs… do Axis subs in the Mediterranean prevent the UK from collecting the bonus? Not sure if the Mediterranean counts as ‘the Atlantic’ so figured I’d clarify.

@creeping-deth87 It does not count as the Atlantic.

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One clarification, please. My current installation says:

while this topic is still titled as Balance Mod 3.0.

Shouldn’t we update 3.0 to 4.0 in the headlines, too?

Probably should just remove the version since it also covers version 2.

@simon33 Right! I have removed the version # so the title is more generic.

@regularkid In case version 4 supersedes version 3, shouldn’t the first posting in this topic reflect the current version, too? Also, shouldn’t the savegame(s) be removed, as the map is included in the Global map-repository?

Hey guys, What happened to the extra download to enable the Vichy Colours? It used to be at the beginning of this thread. Because I thought I installed it over the latest version of TripleA that I installed, but now I just went back and I can’t find it.

Hi, this has probably been addresses before but in the following rules https://axisallies.com/rules/axis-allies-rules-europe1940-corrections-faqs.pdf

it states "

Scrambling Q. Can I scramble fighters or tactical bombers from United Kingdom? A. No. They can only be scrambled from island territories with airbases. An island is a single territory completely surrounded by a single sea zone.

"

Just wondering where this rule was changed since UK scramble is allowed.

@aagamerz13 It was changed with the Second Edition of the rules. Looks like you have First Edition there.

@CaptainNapalm Thanks Capt. that website hasn’t updated some of them.

@aagamerz13 This is where I get the rules.
https://avalonhill.wizards.com/rules

Hi guys…a quick question on the victory conditions. If germany holds all 8 vcs at the end of its turn, then Russia retakes one by the end of its turn, but Italy retakes that last VC…does that satisfy the axis VC conditions as they still have all 8 by the time the german turn comes round? Or do the conditions reset until the end of Italy’s go giving the allies a chance at one more turn?

thanks in advance