[House Rules] The 20 IPC Question....

been dicking around with it on triplea. There’s gonna be CAs and BBs everywhere lol : )

Well…maybe not. What I like about keeping the CA at D3 is it doesn’t screw the RD1 battles too much. Or that’s my hope anyway : ). Germany whacking the UK and French in 110 is almost as key as taking France imo. 111 not as much, but if those CAs hit at D4 with a BB, could be a tough day for the Luftwaffe and the Kriegsmarine.

Seems as if Japan could benefit and maybe UKP if they wanna do a suicide counterattack. Italy if theirr BB lives. Anyway, I’m gonna try it out : )

@taamvan yea some good ideas.

I like the pairing idea so that BBs and CAs both need to be bought to take advantage of the tweak. Those are obviously the least purchased. Just a bunch of CVs, subs and DDs otherwise…or…well…probably. In case you didn’t get my disclaimer earlier…I’m not a very good player heh heh : )

never buy battleships ever. never buy cruisers

Depening on what you have from before;

1DD 2 sub
1 CV, 1 sub
1dd 1 bomber
2 fighters

@taamvan I disagree. Pricing is way off but my imo. So we just disagree on that. Cool.
So Barney you making Cruiser change for in BM right ? AA included ?
Here’s what I have in my game. I know IL mentioned H. and L. Cruisers. But as I stated in prevous post, I think its best to find the Happy Medium.
Cruisers D12
A7 D7 M3 C9 AA@2 SHS3 Shot at a plane First round only. You get a choice shot on First round only. Plane or ship.
Cruiser D6 converted
A4 D4 M3 C10 AA@1 SHS2 Shot at a plane only First Round.

As stated. All theory’s. Need all these ideas played out and posted reports here on site.
Besides other changes to game to be changed even before you think about the cruiser issue. IMO

OK leaving for awhile. May not be back for good.

@SS-GEN

might not come back ? well maybe take a break instead. If not good luck : )

Yea the changes can be used for BM or the oob game.

At first I thought CAs defended at 12. I was like whoa ! heh heh Gonna try a test game here in a bit

Cool. Post a report.

@SS-GEN will do. Looking forward to trying it out. been a while since I did a big change.

Maybe the cruiser being A4 D4 would help more in oob to help eliminate the bid.

@SS-GEN yea idk. would help Japan a lot too. My concern is that D4 would make the 110 SZ rd 1 battle pretty hard on Germany

Also, I think the defensive fleet usually has the advantage, which can lead to big fleets having standoffs instead of battle

Ya but it would slow down Germany. See there’s to many things in oob that have to be tweaked. Imo

@SS-GEN yea I don’t really know. While I enjoy the game, I’m basically a low to intermediate player.

Pretty much Russia just needs more dough in oob. I just try and add as many ideas that seem worth trying to triplea so it’s easier for people if they actually want to put thought to practice : )

@SS-GEN heh heh no worries. I use “Primitive Terrain” for most of China except for some non coastal TTs and Soviet Far East. All land units can only move one. Doesn’t effect planes.

Slows Japan marching to Russia down a bit

@Mursilis said in [House Rules] The 20 IPC Question....:

@barnee
Well if you use the Tamvaan mode PLUS you make the cruiser cost 12, able to transport 1 infantry and A4 and D4 when paired with a BB you could balance out both germany and japan since you slightly buff the Soviets and anzac enough to counter Japan.

Yea I like the idea of taamvan’s mod because it doesn’t change much. I think I’ll make the NOs except for lenningrad a $3 option. Give some more flexibility with it.

Is that what you’re trying now ? My initial thought is that D4 might be too powerful, as my impression is the defensive fleet usually has the advantage.
I’ve never tried it though.

Only made it a couple rounds in my test game before I decided on another approach : ) so haven’t really got much action with A4.
Decided to let planes target capital ships before regular combat starts. Didn’t seem right that AA shooting at them and they just gotta take it heh heh.

Anyway, let me know if you want a triplea option for testing.
Rock On :)