Allied Attack

Tanks don’t have to be adjacent to their attacking territory either. They can move 2 spaces to attack. For example, say you have a tank in Germany and you are attacking Baltic states. You can move through Poland with your tank and attack Baltic States.

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notably American fleet carriers Yorktown and Wasp and i thought it was the Japanese planes from the Hiryu that did her in. The only capital ships that went down solely by subs were Wasp and Shinano. If Japan sunk the Yorktown by subs ( i am quite sure she didn’t), that’s after the battle, while it was sitting and listing. IN any case by AA standards subs dont interact with warships in WW2. It does not meet the threshold in terms of ability and hard numbers.

@Ichabod: @Argothair: Ichabod, your idea of boosting capital territories’ income is interesting and worth considering as an alternate way to balance the game, although if we only boost capital territory income, then the Axis will have no incentive to fight over peripheral territories, which will become even more irrelevant to the war. As I’ve mentioned on other threads, it bothers me that Australia, South Africa, the Urals, and Archangel wind up being so irrelevant to the game, even though in reality they were a major component of the Allies’ industrial and logistical capacity. I agree with you that we should not be boosting any territories that would wind up just being a gift to the Axis, because the Axis have plenty of advantages already, but I think it is actually very hard for the Axis to stack Archangel in the early game – it’s three territories away from Berlin and its adjacent to Moscow, so if the Russians can’t at least trade Archangel (to share the extra income), then you’ve probably reached the endgame. I assure you, that as the Axis I will be trying to take as many territories as possible to boost my income even if the value is still the original 1 or 2 IPCs. I’ve played 42.2 only a few times. I grew up on Classic/Revised and it’s basically just an updated version. The 2x I played 42.2 however were enough to demonstrate to me how ridiculously unbalanced it is, way worse than G40 (which is my go to game). Start small, make the capital territories an increased value of 5 IPCs and see if it doesn’t unbalance the game. I’m telling you if you make irrelevant territories like Archangel or South Africa, or Australia worth more, the Axis will just capture those places, and poof, there goes your game balance and it’s even more lopsided. Archangel was captured on round 2 or 3 of the 2 games I played. It’s easy for Germany to push Russia back in 42.2; heck a caveman could do it. Axis can grab lands such as South Africa or Australia but I don’t think it might be optimal for Axis. Such are out of position and, if Germany waste money in Africa, this is less units against Russia. Same for Japan wasting resources against US instead of crushing India, then going Caucasus or Moscow. I do agree about Archangel and Karelia, it is on the north way toward Moscow.

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Sounds like a good idea. I wonder what would happen to try the same on AA42, something like Russia Germany Allies Europe Japan Allies Pacific hmmmm… interesting and worth exploring. thanks for sharing!

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Good action 304 Der Kuenstler’s tech system has some similarities. http://www.mediafire.com/view/o9z748zex278sfr/xsrules-6.2_ed.pdf DK’s Hybrid Axis and Allies Map and Rules Also Gargantua had a Research Facility. Similar to your setup. http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?topic=22164.0 At one time I had a triplea mod that was based on these ideas. Sadly I don’t have it anymore due to a pc meltdown. Hopefully I’ll do it again eventually. I made the research facilities like factories where you could bomb/ them as well. Don’t remember if that’s how Gargantua did it too or not. Anyway you have some really cool ideas here 304. Some of it might be a little too far removed for basic A&A play. As you say, more Risk like. Still sounds like fun. I’ll have to go through it in more detail. Maybe incorporate some of your techs into the house rule mod. : ) Thanks for posting this