How can we rebalance Global 40

[Cow]

Play your first games with the box setup.

it is a pretty balanced game 60/40 - 55/45… The reason bids are usually at around 8-11 are because of the scale (the game starts with like 400 units on the board so it takes a bit to make it perfectly even).

The only reason the axis are the favorite to win are because of the victory conditions. Take away the VC and it is a huge allies win game.

[Paksos]

What Cow said.

We generally play global domination and we have to dock America’s pre-war income down to 35 ipc’s to make it balanced.

[Degrasse]

I’d go with Gargantua’s XDAP tournament setup, Russia has a heavy bomber added to Moscow and then bid down from 20 to see who takes the Allies each time.  Have some agreement before hand about how to spend the bid, one unit per territory added, naval forces added only to sea zones with other units present, etc.  Have fun.

[Quintus Fabius Maximus]

Hey gargantua, is there a house rules thread on your idea? It would something that my friends would like to try sometime.

It would be really cool to try it out once some solid rules are fleshed out.

[boldfresh]

it’s pretty darned balanced.  in fact i’m not sure the allies don’t have the advantage in the current setup.  :-P

[ghr2]

@Boldfresh:

it’s pretty darned balanced.  in fact i’m not sure the allies don’t have the advantage in the current setup.   :-P

Blasted double negatives!  Are you saying the game is balanced or slanted towards allies?

[boldfresh]

slanted toward allies.

[Young Grasshopper]

I like……

Add 1X Strategic Bomber on Moscow
Add 1X British Submarine off India

[boldfresh]

honestly, i think this game is awesome with it’s CURRENT setup.  i feel like the allies need nothing.

[boldfresh]

@Boldfresh:

honestly, i think this game is awesome with it’s CURRENT setup.  i feel like the allies need nothing.

however, you MUST play with the 8 VC (europe) and 6 VC (asia) conditions or else the good allied player would win EVERY SINGLE TIME.

[ghr2]

@Boldfresh:

honestly, i think this game is awesome with it’s CURRENT setup.  i feel like the allies need nothing.

I don’t see how the axis can lose in this setup if the allies receive nothing.