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Re: AA50 National Advantage Cards

On this post, Many interesting national advantage. Some new. Unfortunatly, the 12 first Links are missing.

Research is super fun, but can seriously unbalance the game if a player gets lucky with their first couple rolls. Therefore, we play that the player chooses which tech to research, however better techs have a lower chance of being successfully researched.

The mechanism of researching is the same, you buy research tokens (dice rolls), roll for success, if none hit the tokens are banked for next turn and can roll again at no cost, if successful the tech is gained and the tokens are removed and must be rebought to do more research . The cost of each token (die roll) is increased to 8 IPC (normally is 5). But, tier 1 techs will be successfully researched with a roll of 3 or lower, tier 2 with roll of 2 or lower, and tier 3 with roll of 1:

(3/6 chance) 1. adv artillery, inc factory prod . || mech infantry, war bonds
(2/6 chance) 2. long-range aircraft, radar . . . . || paratroopers, rockets
(1/6 chance) 3. heavy bombers, super subs . . || jet fighters, improved shipyards

To balance out how multiple techs are gained, we separated complimentary tech into opposing groups to prevent them from easily being researched too quickly back-back and becoming OP. To research a tier 2 or 3 tech at least one tech from the tier below must be already obtained from WITHIN the branch. Note, the techs are separated into left and right branches.

So to get heavy bombers (left, tier 3), you could research adv artillery or factory prod (left, tier 1) then radar or long-range air (left, tier 2). Then, to get jet fighters (right, tier 3), you’d have to also research 2 corresponding lower tier techs in the right branch, because adv artillery/radar/etc. don’t count towards the necessary lower tier techs for the right branch.

Thoughts?

@Black_Elk Good luck! Let me know how it works out.

Some good ideas here. A few things I’ve done were to have bmbrs hit at 3 unless paired with a ftr. Makes taking solo blockers out more risky and unless used with carrier aircraft, not as powerful with the big range they have.

Also give tacs +1 when paired with inf the same way artillery does. Makes them a lot more popular in my test games.

None of the Prices change. The ftr still has the big hit on D and can boost the bmbr. Also still the cheapest for fodder. Tac boosting the inf is really nice for small counterattacks and is somewhat realistic as well.

So some minor changes but makes for a more balanced air buy as opposed to just going huge with bmbrs imo.

National Advantage cards designed for AA50 but many may be used in other A&A games. Templates designed for Superior POD print. 72 cards total but only 60 usable.

Superior POD:

Follow the topic here:
http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?topic=25981.0

PDF Files:
https://rapidshare.com/files/2029556432/Front_1.pdf

https://rapidshare.com/files/620550717/Front_2.pdf

https://rapidshare.com/files/646726380/Front_3.pdf

https://rapidshare.com/files/3663351455/Front_4.pdf

https://rapidshare.com/files/3479269913/Common_Backs.pdf

These are the cards:

Probably quite a bit, since heavy stacks of infantry can be nuked out of existance instead of slowely killed through attrition.

Because we need variety… each nation gets to choose about 4-5 and we need a good inventory of choices.

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I guess no one here has tried it …

Not enough info here to interest anyone in checking it out …

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