PLAYTESTERS WANTED!!!

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As someone who’s never played North Africa (and certainly not this game), I have no idea what works or doesn’t work in this version.

I did notice some typos though.

Hello,

I have just started to play the BBR version just within the last weekend and we were able to get a few games in over the weekend. We are pretty experienced in the Axis & Allies universe as we have played on and off since the mid 80s…(yes, I am almost 60).

We did have a question about Casablanca as far as the Italian NO. Does it need to be occupied to for the Italians to receive the bonus or is just Morocco?

I’m only seeing this now, but it looks pretty cool! However, it seems pretty unbalanced overall. A lot of this comes from the fact that Japan is no longer fighting the Soviet Union and that the UK doesn’t have much recourse when it comes to fortifying the front lines. Here are a couple of changes I would make to this setup:

Set China to its OOB 1942 Setup: China already gets steamrolled in a standard game, but with Manchuria free? Woof. With more units at China’s wing, while they may still get beaten badly, at least it isn’t as terrible as it could be.

Give the UK an Industrial Complex in India: Due to Britain not having the resources to garrison their land, give one IC to India! According to your Turn Order, this may end up impacting Japan’s initial spread. To fix this…

Japan Goes First: This basically gives us the OOB turn order, with Japan going first, Britain going second, America going third, and the Chinese going fourth. This is simply a more effective turn order when it comes down to Japan’s initial expansion.

Haven’t playtested these changes yet, but they should improve the balance of this variant to a degree.

(Also, sorry if this counts as necroposting. I didn’t want to create an entire new topic just for my personal thoughts on this post.)

I have posted a basic training thred which explains how to teach a new player how to play but I need some help to play test so setups to make it fair.

Read the basic training forum and then change some units around and play.

The german air needs to be reduced or the SU air increased the land is fine maybe an extra two or 3 su inf.

This is the start

SU
air: 20 ipc (2 fig)
Land: 70 Ipc (14 inf, 4 arm, 2 art)

G
air: 75 ipc (1 bmr, 6 fig)
Land: 95 Ipc (19 inf, 6 arm, 2 art)

This is the first playtest

SU 1

Build: 4 inf, 4 art, 2 arm save 2
Battles

Ukr
3 inf, art, 3 arm, 2fig v 3 inf, art, arm, fig

R1
Su lose 3 inf, 1 art, 1 arm
G loses 1 inf

(bad dice)

Retreat

W russ
6 inf, art, arm v 3 inf, art, arm

SU loses 3 inf
G loses all

SU collect 44+2

Some NCMs left Kar open and Kaz open

Germany toke Cau after 3 rounds of battle and had 2 arm, 2 fig and bmr left

This is situation after G1

G collected 50

Russia resigned because they would probably turtle R2 or 3 and Germany would become to strong
Basic_training_Resign_playtest_1.AAM

Neat, But why on gods green Earth, would they pick a map that so closely resembles the Classic Map?

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That would be great! What would be even better is if my curent playtesters, I won’t mention any names cough TG cough would hurry up and finish this round of playtesting and give em the results. If they say that it is balanced, then I’l lput it up and you can play the final version, which would mean no looking for bugs, rather just having fun.