AARHE: Rule files

So, in the first round, you have the first NA, then up till round 5, you draw a random NA each time?  It says that the first one is standard I believe.

yea you got it. Its really easy and we dont load you up with too many cards because that would take too long to make decisions.

About historical history conditions…

Establish Lebenstraum ~ End the game in control of Western Europe, Germany, Southern Europe, Norway,
Eastern Europe, Balkans, Switzerland (if not neutral) and Spain (if not neutral).

Isn’t that the first round?  Or is this saying, when the game is over, if you have control of those territories, you win?  What is the point of that, if the game is already over…?

LOL ….no that’s not it. You have to satisfy the ACTUAL war conditions as well PLUS these. I suppose it says this somewhere. The idea is to allow the possibility of say one axis player to win its own war, while its partner may actually lose the game, so basically you no longer win as a team and can win individually.

Historically the war was 4 sides: Germany ,Soviet Union, UK/ USA and Japan and the only thing in common was destroying the common enemy. each group had its own design in the post war. It was entirely possible for the axis to have Germany win its war with Russia and USA to wipe the floor with Japan. This rule allows 1st, 2nd , 3rd etc. place results.

Tekkyy : please make this clear in the 1939 file. I notice its not explained how these work. lets discuss.

Tekkyy? where are you? wake up.

Hurray Tekkyy is here!!! finally man glad to see you back!

http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?topic=12105.0
oh
thought we were talking about grammar fixes

anyway that list is a list of issues and needed clarifications
first item
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1. issues on terrain benefits and how they effect naval invasions.
   its going to be difficult for me to track down the posts of the related discussion

prioritise and bring up one issue at a time
post the question again or link a post

Quote from: Imperious Leader on October 06, 2008, 10:05:13 pm
Tekkyy : please make this clear in the 1939 file. I notice its not explained how these work. lets discuss.
ah yes the national victory
they are just used for assessment rather than ending a game
(ending a game follows non-optional portion of AARHE rules)
just because Japan reaches its goals, it doesn’t make the war in Europe ends

AS you can see some of these need work. They are too easy for say Germany to get them done. They have no viability if they are just useless ideas that have no effect on victory. Perhaps we should tweek them as alternative victory conditions or provide IPC bonus for occupation like AA50 does.

anyway I don’t have the time to maintain the 1939 file
its a doc file
just edit it
and email it to me and I put it on my webspace

I can do this, but the problems are with the 4.0 and not the 1939 file.

also their is a thread specifically dealing with the list of issues to be fixed for 4.0.

http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?topic=12105.0

lets get these done first.

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AS you can see some of these need work. They are too easy for say Germany to get them done.
too easy?
besides Seize Mideast Oil all of them are like end game situations and can’t be achieved early game

They are easier to achieve than the normal VC. I don’t see the value in them because we have victory conditions, and these most likely would be easy to also achieve if your close to victory. I would at least add some text to how they are played to make them relevant to 4.0

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They have no viability if they are just useless ideas that have no effect on victory.
national victory conditions are a gauge of national success

yes but if they have no formal duty, they are just fluff

how else do you want to use them?
should war in Europe end when war in Asia is won by Japan

Yes that was the idea with them originally, it should be possible for one axis nation to win and the other to fail, so partnerships dont need to take place to the extent they do under our current VC. THAT was the entire point of historical victory conditions. I feel we need to make a batter effort to tie this together to give it vitality and drive this point home.

those are not grammar/wording changes or specific adjustments that I can just go to do
and my reply was bring up one item as a time, discussing them in the existing thread if discussion started already

yes lets begin this… pick one at a time. Old salty and Biergaden brought these up

yeah, we can use national victory conditions as the 4th separate game mode

well then lets add some text to explain what these conditions are about. Its very vague as written.

Tekkyy so whats next on the agenda?

perhaps we should turn the Historical victory conditions into IPC bonus of X IPC a turn that they are achieved, like in the new AA50 game?

Its pattern is similar to AA50. Look at the national objectives. They are basically a rip off of our idea for historical victory conditions except it rewards players with IPC, we don’t, we just say they won another aspect of our game, but it has no weight to a player other than a title of 1st or 2nd place.

Since we actually came up with these ideas, we also take back “borrow” an idea from AA50.

Lets assign our Historical victory as IPC. You decide how much. Look at the ones for AA50 in the fact sheet.

Its a bonus for achieving historical conditions for conquest/liberation. Each one you take pays you a bonus, so when its clear your winning the game ends sooner because you got paid extra money and can now buy more stuff… Its just an optional rule anyway. The Historical conditions make have to be tweeked for 39 due to the new territories.

http://www.mediafire.com/?idiztkxjmne

here is the link for 4.1 AARHE i got it to 32 pages. its an easy read.

Yes its a step toward a less fat AARHE. Its got some cuts, but took the ideas and made the result less painfull to go thru as far as some of the more tedious steps in combat.

of course i have a latter file, but will look at CAP as a support for losing some of the naval flavor.

The air missions are all together

ASW tech went down a box

changes due to lots of playtesting of all of the included new concepts

ID is gone. Its too much seasoning and not enough flavor…so AA gun is back, but modified

the goal was not to leave ambiguity. It should require perhaps 2 reads to be clear.

Historical VC is gone… not enough bang for the buck

SPA was not utilzed well enough