I think a good idea for 1914 would be to require at least 1 infantry to be stationed in every territory by the end of a power’s turn (the infantry must be from the power controlling. If they don’t, they won’t get the IPCs from this territory. Not only does it potentially make the game more historically accurate (to symbolize the need to keep civilian populations under control during wartime), but it probably also makes the game more balanced, as the Allies will probably be more burdened with this (since they have substantially larger colonial possessions).
Built fleet
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The idea would be that the enemy would be forced to engage because you cannot non-combat move before you combat move. We might give them a choice of forgoing any combat moves anywhere and go directly to non-combat moves to save their fleet.
It would just add another level of difficulty to the allies. I am tiring of games where the allies have 3 carriers in the baltic and can shuffle their troops around at will. A single german submarine in SZ 5 should effectively kill any transport movement with transports originating in that sea zone. (you cannot load in a hostile zone.)
Basically, if you put transports in SZ 5 or 14, you can pretty much expect them to be stuck there without ability to move or load/unload for the rest of the game.
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We have a strait interdiction rule letting Germany influence te Baltic Sea via the “Germany” territory (via Denmark in reality).
I still think its really about non-high-sea SZs.
You can get some strange movement/retreat in those cases.
Because the SZ is like only connected to one other SZ.
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Like, a naval battle in the Indian Ocean would be different to the Baltic Sea.
Japanese fleet at SZ 31 attacks UK fleet at SZ 32. After one cycle, Japan “takes” SZ 31 and UK fleet retreats to SZ 32.
Sounds ok.UK fleet at SZ 6 attacks German fleet at SZ 5. After one cycle UK “takes” SZ 5 and German fleet retreats to SZ 6.
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But defenders cannot retreat in AAR. In classic, defending submarines could retreat. But that’s really not relevant to the discussion.
The idea is that England could put 2 Aircraft Carriers, a Battleship, 3 Destroyers, 4 Transports in SZ 5 and all Germany should have to do to neutrallize them is put 1 submarine in the water. This counts as combat, you cannot retreat from combat until after the first round and only to a territory you attacked from, thus, you should be locked in SZ 5 for a full round, unable to move to England to get reinforcements to land in Europe.
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Of cousre the UK fleet can’t move away in combat-move and load troops in the same turn anyway.
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Really? Happens routinely for me. You build a submarine, England moves out of SZ 5, picks up infantry and moves to SZ 4, or back to SZ 5, and engages your submarine.
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Of cousre the UK fleet can’t move away in combat-move and load troops in the same turn anyway.
Yes they can, but the units so loaded have to COMBAT unload also.
Check LHTR. Rules are very clear on this.
So in the above example:
UK fleet in SZ5.
Germany drops a SUB
UK pulls TRNs out of SZ5 to SZ6, grabs troops from UK, then back to SZ5 (where BB’s absorb hits and sink the German SUB), then the TRNs offload to Western, Germany, Eastern, Karelia, or Norway, ALL of which are legal offloads as long as Germany (or Japan) controls the territory being offloaded to. -
Oh damn. I didn’t think about that. :-(
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Yea, that’s the bummer of it. I’m proposing that this cannot happen. You can retreat from combat, but because your transports were engaged in combat (even though no shots were fired, they were forced to move during combat) they cannot load troops anymore this round.
Should give the axis more breathing space, the allies have tons of breathing space already.
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even today I am still a bit confused about what transport can and can’t do :wink:
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