Technology tree

Check the range of V weapons. Four spaces is too long of a distance. Also, the new tech units it needs to be clear: When you get say King Tigers do all your tanks go “Poof” and become Tigers , or from that point on are any tanks you build…Tigers. The later idea is much more realistic.

I’m not sure yet lmao. Also I’m not sure if I want to do things like national objective which will also be a big factor. Also since the ussr was almost entirely industrialised, going through a massive famine, and a control economy, I’m thinking russia will also have to pay to keep his territories fed and maintained

@ancient:

May I suggest an amendment to your rules.  Any roll under a 3 is treated as a 3.  This way someone is not totally screwed by continually rolling 1s and 2s.  This may have the affect that you will need to raise the tech values a little though.

So the possibilities would be 0, 3, 4, or 5 points, with a 50% chance of 3 points?  That takes a significant portion of the randomness out of it.  Even with that system, someone could be continually screwed by repeated 6s being rolled.

The purpose of my system was to acheive a greater balance between risk and reward.  I think your alteration swings too much away from risk.  That’s the nature of the game.  Sometimes your heavy bombers roll a bunch of 5s and 6s.  The dice bite you some times.

@Lufftwaffe:

Wow. I think that I willl start playing with paratroopers now. does anyone know all the attack/defense/move for the heavy tanks tech?

Panzer Divisions:
Cost: 6
Attack: 4
Defend: 2

For the record, we also had marines/commandos/SS/etc
Cost: 3
Attack: 2
Defend: 1

Marines:  Limited to the Pacific, only functioned in Amphibious assaults. (Somehow they turned into Army people magically if they did not attack Amphibiously.)
Commandos:  Limited to N. Africa, Finland/Norway and W. Europe
SS: Limited to Europe/Asia west of Moscow (Karelia, Russia, Caucasus)
Samurai: Limited to China / Coastal Japanese territories
Oktober Guard: Limited to Red territories

We also had Torpedo Planes:
Cost: 15
Attack: 4
Defend: 4
Special: Could only attack Battleships and Aircraft Carriers, could defend against any attack (figured they were equipped as fighters for defending.) 
Concept:  Replace the Battleship which was ungodly expensive in classic!  (That didnt stop my brother from buying a battleship every blasted round with America…this was before the internet so we had no idea how powerful carriers were in the first place!)

Special units denoted with control marker under them.

So in the above example, exactly how many IPCs did you spend?

I guess he was referring to some variant or house rule.
No Heavy Tank in OOB or LHTR. Just Super Heavy Tank. :wink:

Most techs are useless, except  forcertain players.
Rokets: If your germany you have three aaguns and three industial complexs near by. As long as your winning in africa and the US/Uk is not ready to open up another front this tech can easly fix a bad Russian front.
Jets: Well now you have a 3/5  fighter, goooood for you, But you should have  just bought six infantry
Super Subs: It looks sexy on the outside put most countries don’t have enough somes for this to be usefull
Long Range Aircraft: Just not enough oppertunites for this to be useful.
Combined Bombardment: Enough said
Heavy Bombers: At some point in the game it’s not a bad idea to get heavy bombers. For an average cost of 30 IPC’s you can turn your alomst useless one dice bombers who only will cost the enemy 15 IPCs on average ( The same amount who payed to get the bombers in the first) into two dice bombers which will cost the emeny 30 IPC per bomber.

PS: If your country has an income under 30 IPCs it means your about to lose your cpaital so don’t woory about techs, buy infantry

Thanks for responding-I have used them in AAE as well. We played that you didn’t have to pay the $5. You rolled and if you got a six then there you go. Germany ended up with supper subs… Unfotunately, the Atlantic became a German Pond!