1914 Rules Rework

You need to have like 10 posts to site before you can put anything on. Just go reply to other threads and  also here tell us some of the things you have.

You only have 1 post. 9 to go.

Welcome to site.  :-)

The flu season of 1918 hit a perfect storm of conditions that caused this outbreak to be one of the worst ever in history.  500 million people were hit with the virus (type H1N1), and it ended up killing close to 10% of those infected.  No place on the planet was safe, with North America and Europe getting hit the hardest.

In Europe, with the war and a supply of wounded soldiers, malnourished civilians, wet and cold weather conditions, lack of proper medicines, the flu showed no mercy.  In fact, research done years later, speculated that this virus variant strain was unusually aggressive and may have caused a condition known as a cytokine storm with the immune system.  This causes strong healthy adults to be hit harder by the disease than those with a weakened immune system.

In the game, to handle this event, starting with turn 6 the virus is possible for next 3 turns.  Roll 1d6 to see if the flu has come to Europe. The virus is in effect with these rolls; Turn 6, 1 to 3; Turn 7, 1 to 5; Turn 8, 1 to 3.

To show the virus impacts, do the following; This is for Europe and North America ONLY.  Not Turkey, Middle East, or Africa.
Roll 1d6 for every territory.  1 thru 3 and the territory is hit.

Remove 10% of infantry units, with 1 removed at a minimum, but only down to a minimum of 1. The IPC value of the 1d6 is lost to the controlling player.  USA is 2x the 1d6 roll.

OK. Comment noted.
Don’t be afraid about numbers, they will be much less present since they found a way to be applied in a Triple A Redesign game.

I will try to refrained myself to not overflow too much threads.

For language difference, maybe someday it will improve…

Ships are less vulnerable when they are immobile in a port?  Most ships that were “protected” in that way ended up never leaving their berths again…

That doesn’t make any sense, examples include;  Taranto Pearl Harbor Tirpitz Operation Catapult, every Italian naval battle in the early war…

As you stated this injects some random invariability. Instead of the linear games some randomness is provided. This isn’t supposed to be reality. If you want that just watch the “World at War” series from the BBC circa 1970’s. It’s just supposed to be fun. That’s all. Play test and give suggestions to improve.

To some extent devastation is represented by the fact that contested tts yield no income, though we still have the absurdity that a tt might yet produce EIGHT TIMES the usual income if it changes hands often enough.

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In AAR you couldn’t attack neutrals

Yes, and there’s a good reason for that. There’s no simple way to do the neutral situation without it being abused, so the OOB version tends towards making attacking true neutrals a rare option