PLAYTESTERS WANTED!!!

Hi,

I’d really like this map file (Please respond to my emails Contango). I’ve been solo-repping this map on TripleA for a while now and want the opportunity to play over the board. If anyone else has access to the map file, please contact me.

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.)

So I fed the map and rules doc into Google’s Ai, and I’d say this is pretty …open-and-shut.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1euS_3LHtSYxeYB8OGQ6-ABrxei8ZaTq_k78VsJC0mXk/edit?usp=drive_link

I’m sure we can go further down the rabbit hole with what-ifs, but I didn’t need much convincing.

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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