For the past 2 weeks I’ve actually been in the process of creating actual schedules for the delivery of men and materiel on a round by round (which I consider year by year) basis for each power and eliminating the IPC’s from the game. I’ve been playing these games for 30 years: the first game just turned into a stockpiling of transports outside Normandy until the Luftwaffe was exhausted; this latest version just turns into a slogging match of infantry between the Wehrmacht and the Red Army until Germany is exhausted. Was just curious if anyone had done any research on the Global 1940 unit allocations; little snide, sarcastic comments are not needed.
Anyone have any idea why Japan was ridiculously over-powered and the UK was ridiculously under-powered??? Germany and the Soviets have a bit of a discrepancy too, their totals should be inverted in global A&A.
There is always a trade-off between being accurate (historically speaking) & being balanced. I prefer a game being balanced. If you do not agree, please follow these steps:
- Please convert your real-world-numbers to A&A units.
- Toss these units around the board in a way you think seems about right.
- Next, play 100 test games.
- Report the results on these forums.
Have fun!