Oil Centers in AAG40

[Guest]

Alberta.

[Bischoffshof]

Saudi Arabia oil deposits were discovered after the war and France has a small oilfield, Pechelbronne I believe. Their were also large stockpiles of oil in Netherlands and Belgiumvso maybe Germany rolls a one time roll of oil resources. I don’t know how you are setting up the oil rules though.

[otahere34]

What if instead of using the oil centers for IPC value, what if you somehow came up with a rule about using oil, and depleating your oil resources. This is just an idea in progress, but I thought of it thinking how Germany began to run low on oil towards the end of the war.

Each oil center produces so many thousands of barrels of oil per turn (can be more first in my head though). Each mechanical device can only be purchased if you have enough oil. EX. Iraq produces 40 thousand barrels of oil per turn and Germany controls it, so germany gets 40,000 barrels of oil per turn. However, for each tank on the board, he has to use 1,000 barrels per turn, each airplane, 500 and so on. If he doesn’t have enough oil, he can only move units for which he has enough oil. So say he has 35 tanks (35,000 barrels) and 20 airplanes (10,000 barrels). He would only be able to move a combination of units that equals 40,000 barrels of oil.

The 000 at the end could be cut off for easy adding purposes 40 barrels 1 per tank and soo on. Just an idea but sounds fun.

[Deaths Head 420]

@Imperious:

Good. you left off Celebes which for some stupid reason was part of the DEI NO for Japan. Problem was Celebes has no oil or anything of value, except large spiders.

Are u kidding Imp? The worst enemy I ever fought were those Damn Celebian spiders,

Just look at it eat that poor soldier.

These are not ur normal spiders here

[Commander JayVon]

I like this idea, especially the one about securing oil resources to move units. I think the number of barrels per units needs to be adjusted, but I’m still working on the numbers myself, so its definitely not a criticism. With the inclusion of the IPC and Convoy economic systems, it’ll be a great addition.

The Chinese had technically one producing oilfield, in Yumen. Don’t know if you would want to add it, with some type of restriction or something…

The British also controlled another oilfield in Burma, at Yenangyaung.

http://pwencycl.kgbudge.com/O/i/Oil.htm

Could surely add some flavor in the Pacific theater.

[Derek]

Saudi Arabia should have no oil in this game

Like said above SAs oil was not discovered until after the war

[captainhook]

Canada has oil too!

[Gargantua]

SHHH.

[techroll42]

I like the oil used for movement. As for income, I don’t think oil should count for it as it’s powerful enough for movement…

There has GOT to be a way to bomb oil…perhaps “oil facilities” that can be SBR’ed like normal?

[empireman]

Should have oils in:
Us mainland Territories (3)
Sauda Arabia
Persia
Northwest Persia
Mexico
Iraq
Caucasus
Slovakia/Hungary
Romania
Alberta
Columbia
Peru
Algeria
Java
Sumatra

you get a 1d6
1= +1 IPC
2= +2 IPC
3= +3 IPC
4= +4 IPC
5= +4 IPC
6= +4 IPC

[Derek]

Saudi Arabia should not

[empireman]

@Uncrustable:

Saudi Arabia should not

Sauda arabia has tons of oil!

[Commander JayVon]

Arabian oilfields didn’t come till after WWII.

[techroll42]

This sounds like a cool rool!

[Derek]

@empireman:

@Uncrustable:

Saudi Arabia should not

Sauda arabia has tons of oil!

Il revise my statement:

No one knew about oil in Saudi Arabia until AFTER WWII

[Gargantua]

As I recall the Germans also used a technique that sythnesized wheat to make oil?

[Derek]

@Gargantua:

As I recall the Germans also used a technique that sythnesized wheat to make oil?

Cellulosic ethanol first discovered and used by germany in 1898

by WWII i dont think it was still exclusive to germany

[Guest]

Ooooh what a juicy warcrime.  Starve civilians to make ethanol.

[Derek]

@Vance:

Ooooh what a juicy warcrime.  Starve civilians to make ethanol.

Well when your already committing mass genocide i doubt you care about making a few people go on a forced diet lol

[Little_Boot]

What would having a shortage of oil do? Perhaps limit the amount of Mechanized units that can blitz/take part in combat on a single turn. Maybe every oil well is worth ten tanks/mechs of blitzing and combat.
If you don’t have enough, not all of your units can blitz, or they can attack at a decreased value. Tanks that aren’t supplied properly would attack on 2 two, rather than a 3.

You are blitzing 4 mechs and 4 tanks into a territory, and making attacks with 14 tanks, but you only have two oil wells. You can supply 20 units of oil, but are using 22 units of oil (8 from blitzing, and 14 from the combat), so two of your tanks must fight at a two instead of a three. How does that sound?