big tech

@crockett36 said in big tech:

@SS-GEN what if you put a year on your cards? every turn 3 or six months. probably 6. and added cards to the pile as the game progressed?

Are you talking about adding tech cards to the event cards decks ?

Once cards are shuffled at start of game they cannot be reshuffled during game at all.

Well another option is to have a tech tree for each country. At least then like Russia wouldn’t get Jet fighters.
Make a Tech chart list. Then what ever the country got in war put on list. Some lists will have more than others.

Game has a lot of historical in it but also want game to be more random for Tech but a lot not good for some and changes each game a bit.
For now I don’t want OK Germany gets Tigers starting on turn 6 every game. That shouldn’t be a tech anyway.
They should get to buy that starting on a certain turn based on year where your game starts.

I’m still very interested in what you want do here.

Ya you could add all the special pieces to game but most wont play it. Already know that.
As I mentioned depends on your players preference.

All good. Only thing is you can buy tigers turn 1 in my game. Not turn 6.

My game starts in Dec of 41. German Tigers were being built around that time.
Russia has KV-1s in game at start too. Stronger than any Ger Tank at the time.

@Wittmann said in On this day during W.W. 2:

@barnee it is. I checked its operational history though and thought it was first used in late 42 at Leningrad. I don’t think the photo can be from the Demyansk encirclement.
@SS GEN
Yes wittman. There was 4 Tiger tanks that saw service on Aug 29 1942 in SE of Leningrad. 3 broke down and all 4 had to be recovered. Then they made more changes to the Tiger designs and then later mass produced them.

My reply about Aug 29

@SS-GEN I had seen that; thank you.

Crockett, I have a buds Tech/Special weapons list he used when his 39 game came out in 1995. You cannot use tech until turn 6.
You still could buy tech tokens to research before turn 6 and on each turn after turn 6 1 or 2 countries would receive
a free tech per turn as game went on. I can post a pic of chart if you would like to see or anybody else.
A few techs are not correct time wise. One or 2 countries already had one.
I will see if its just tech or both with special weapons.

Here’s the chart with the year. How accurate I never really checked.
Disregarded the turn order so there’s no confusion. Turn order based on his 39 game

I guess if you want time of season to match turns in your game I’ll post pick with seasons on it
After turn 2 I think it’s 4 turns per year

For what it’s worth it’s something that maybe somebody may want to put a few of theses in there game or whatever

No idea. Think got to T12 couple times but never finished game.

@crockett36 said in big tech:

what would the game be like to have every one of those in the game? super subs earlier perhaps.

The USA would KICK ASS !!!

Heh heh maybe :)

HA. They did one game. Got a free tech token. Rolled a 6 for break thru. Then rolled a 6 for Super Fortress. This happened on turn 3. OK can’t use until turn 6. So I buy 6 Super Bombers turn 3. ( 6 max ) Then on turn 4 6 figs for escorts. Then on turn 6 bomb Berlin. Lose 2-3 figs in dog fight and 6 bombers SBR Berlin with 2 D6’s each.
SO now I do like 45 damage to IC. ( 72 max ) wtf. Think 30 was max. SO now Germany has to to repair damage to build and also lost 5 figs in DF and no way they would keep up with just US buying figs and a bomber each turn with Germany losing 30 icps damage and 6 figs 54 icps. Even at 30 damage a turn still to much.
US I only sent 4 bombers next turn and money went else where. Plus bombers could A@1 dog fighting to. That’s pretty strong in d6 system.

So Crus had to change that in game to 1 d6 SBR that I know of.
Also another game Russia gets to defend @3 in winter seasons for Inf and art for all rounds and that was to strong too based on Russian inf cost 2.
Play test people so you have a for sure results.

I edit this at bottom here. It’s the B29 Heavy Bomber. For sure some of these you shouldn’t get before there time. But it’s what you want for your game.

@SS-GEN
yea the bomber hitting at 1 in 6 is too strong. I was gonna set it at 1 in 12 for starters but triplea can’t do that without switching everything to 12 sided. Which one day I hope to do

Is there anyway for every 2 bombers get 1 AD@1 dog fight ?