Posts made by All Encompassing Goose

As the UK, you can take Greece round 1 if you wish. There is no way of protecting your transport if you are trying a Taranto Raid but you can ship 4 units easy into Greece (and get the rest from the province itself) I don’t know why people dont try this

@midnight_reaper This is a old thread but TBH they should of kept the design for some of these charts. They are beautiful and the cherry red for Japan looks gorgeous (but it makes sense they wouldn’t do it for Pacific 2nd Ed. because of obvious reasons.

@jogalvez disappointed no one read your post but I checked the PDF it looks nice. :)

(If anyone else is wondering, DM The_Captain)

It would be better with a 1939 variant (which exists) but 1940 is still ok. If you are very knowledgeable with history and wanted to pretend like you were in the war itself, then I would suppose this could be fun. I wonder if anyone has tried this. As you probably know, each turn is half a year according to the A&A G40 OOB rules.

There would be no winning however, I am a terrible actor and my emotions go in the way of accurately depicting: Oh sh-t…I shouldn’t of tried retaking Yunnan but tell me your experiences roleplaying the entire war if you do.

If you feel like doing it:

https://www.kuriositas.com/2012/11/the-forgotten-battle-japanese-invasion.html?m=1

@the-captain

What program did you use to type your rules and what process did you go through? I have been wanting to make a neat rulebook for my own person A&A house rules :slightly_smiling_face:

@superbattleshipyamato Okay thank you :grin: trying to refine these rules and yeah I did kinda forget about the one IPC province in Portugal but maybe when it starts it turns to a 2 IPC province. Also historically, Mozambique and Angola belonged to Portuguese until they fought their way to independence. I also think maybe some of the countries in South America turns Pro-Spain or Pro-Portugal which would bring the war to The Americas and prevent an American-occupied Brazil from happening.

But that is in the “worst case scenario” if Portugal joins the Axis and Spain joins the Allies in the influence phase. Germany moves first (Spain and Portugal moves after Europe UK) so Spain might often die round 1

So maybe the both “strict neutrals” can have a military presence (maybe 4 land units per country) but once you give them a “military presence” you cannot move anywhere else until the war starts. If if the country you have a military presence with becomes against you, the units will perish.

I am making these rules because I bought the G36 roundles for the Spanish Civil War and a thought came in my mind about Iberia. So I gave myself until December 25 to come up with balanced and agreeable house rules for my G40 board :kissing_smiling_eyes:

@superbattleshipyamato Sounded like fun though, do you believe if the Axis had tried something differently then the war would go more in their favor?

6 IPC’s Germany - Eastern Persia is controlled by the Axis - Caucasian oil fields out of range from Allied bombers and critical infrastructure leading to Germany is secure

Each turn of play there is a brief “influence” stage where the Axis and Allies chip in IPC’s to let Spain join the war

If Spain gets 70 IPC’s (Not play-tested, you can change this number or alter this all together) by round 6 they either side they join sides of that country
If they don’t then at that “Influence” sequence, roll a die. If the die rolls 1-3 then Spain turns ALLIED. If it is 4-6 then Spain turns Axis
Unfortunately, this also brings Portugal into the war against Spain.

Place a minor factory on both Spain and Portugal.

Spain: 5 infantry Starting IPC: 15
Portugal: 3 Infantry Starting IPC: 12

5 IPC’s United States - If either United Kingdom or United States has at least 1 land unit in Portugal or Spain. - Supporting allies in need

Spain and Portugal are prohibited to build aircraft and naval units

Portugal does not join the war if the influence IPC’s were added up

NOTE:

In the Influence Sequence, Axis goes first in placing Influence IPC’s on the table as their proximity allows easier access to diplomatic missions with Spain

@superbattleshipyamato I didn’t see that, sorry

@the-captain Thank you! My group is very small (my Dad and my brother who is very inexperienced but I help him) ATM I am testing my research rules using the DK Board from HBG. I might try playing your 1943 variant without the 1940 house rules revised additions. Is this viable?

Also, have you testing the variant on a single board (Europe, Pacific) and seen if it was balanced or not? I might play on a single board first just because the Global games work best when we know we have lots of time to do them ;D

it’s one of those things where you have “12 IPC’s left” and someone is wanting to build ships but dont just want 2 subs

Want to try this out on my G40 Map after my ongoing game is finished. Looks so interesting. Will print the rulebook.

@superbattleshipyamato any news?

Is there anyone that could print this board and mass produce it? It looks stunning and I love the feel of it. Great job!

@der-kuenstler Hey just revised your research rules a little bit. The Super Subs sounded too OP so I changed the defense to 2 ONLY. I also felt that research tokens were unfair so I made it so every round, there is a research “sequence.”

Each Major Country (Japan, United States, Italy, Europe UK, and Germany) gets 2 research die and the rest (besides of France and China) gets 1. We are play testing it on Pacific 40 and my group thinks it’s fun (ANZAC keeps rolling 6’s.) I made the Copy Cards cost 5 IPC’s each (you can use them any turn you want) and if you roll a 6 you get to copy any research on the board for 1 turn.

It feels balanced enough, in the Pacific map, the allies have a edge on technology but that is expected anyways (unless we give Japan 3 or something but it feels too much)