GHG's House Rules Kit

Good point in the last paragraph, a turn does encompass multiple months and you would expect some sort of naval engagement if both forces were conducting active operations and not sitting in home port. Adding a dice roll to determine if a naval battle occurs adds too many variables for the moment. But I’d certainly like to add a retreating rule in my next home game. I think this would create a much more aggressive game if the risk of losing your entire fleet on one bad round of dice was limited. Does anyone have any experience with this? How did you do it? What did you do with transports? etc.

Someone suggested to me the idea of using Global War 1936 lend-lease paths instead of moving units for Tech. It would definitely cleaner on the board. I am just trying to think about the advantages and disadvantages to each method. What do y’all think?

Well some are very similar. Ill try and write up a comparison of the two rule sets later. Though I do prefer the tech token system in this rule set, tokens being 3 IPCs rather than 5, Success on 5-6, failure on 1-2, token awarded on 3-4

@lnmajor: how about this? place a roundel under a sub on the board to signify its submerged. it can only move 1 space per turn submerged. you must use ASW search roll of 1-2 to detect sub from destroyer or cruiser. surfaced sub can move 2 spaces per turn. ASW roll is 1-4 when sub is surfaced. now, on second turn, if sub remains submerged put second roundel under sub. beggining of 3rd turn submerged sub must surface for 1 turn no matter where it is. even if it has to surface strait into hostile ships and be attacked. not a bad idea. The one benefit to having them off the board is the surprise factor. Great ideas though…

Your right Guerrilla Guy, but they cant shoot out of the transport

About Pacific islands NO. Why not require 3 amongst 4 or 4 amongst 5 Island TTs? That way this can be an incentive to fight for one more to get some buffer TT before loosing the NO.

@Cmdr: @Gargantua: Paratroopers talk a big game… But for examle, if Patton hadn’t have broken through to Bastogne,  they would have been massacred :S I still think it is a bit complicated. Just have a rule that says you have a full round, from the time you are cut off, to establish a line of supply (unbroken, but you can make it as conveluted as you need to establish it) to a friendly industrial complex or all units in the territory are lost.  It must be a major industrial complex or convoy zone (free of enemy warships.)  That stops you from building a minor complex to supply your troops and stops the enemy from just taking a major complex and cutting off your entire continent since you can get to a convoy zone instead. Maybe I think too simply?  It just seems the easier it is to understand, the better the chances of using it and spreading the idea to others. I prefer the notion of keeping it simple.  My A&A “house rules” games have so many rules as it is…

USSR 14:  This one is BRUTAL!  I saw USSR pull this on turn 1, and Germany was hammered.  Love it! However, the question is how many times can they do it per country?  The first time Germany invades each USSR held territory, or every USSR held country for the rest of the game? –--------- this is the first time they invade the Soviet territory, not every turn which denies Germany of any money. So its each originally held Soviet territory once per game. I was limiting each USSR country to 1 time “Slash and Burn”.  Is it really suppose to be every time a country sea-saws back and forth that it is of no use to Germany? -------- no not the back and forth… just the first time. What if Moscow has fallen and Stalin is “dead”.  Does the order still stand? -----------LOL yes the rule is not relative to Stalin in the game because Stalin is not a playing piece in AARHE ( at this point)