@Mursilis responding to your points, in turn:

1. Speaking from my own experience with the mod, cruisers are already an attractive enough buy at 12 IPCs (with marine transport capabilities), that I will buy them, especially with the US. I don’t think making them a “frequent” purchase is a goal, however, due to their relative obsolescence during WW2.

2. Balance Mod avoids changes to the starting unit-setup, because it acts as a barrier to new players. And I don’t think we would break that rule in order to encourage ahistorical outcomes.

3. The Mod does not appear to favor the Axis. To the contrary, many league games include a small bid for the Axis player. Whether, and to what extent, the mod favors either side is hardly a settled question.

4. The justification for allowing battleships/cruisers to carry marines is that most capital ships usually carried a small company of marines that could carry out amphibious operations. They did not, however, carry ground infantry.

5. This thread is never dead.

Have you played balance mod?

@simon33 said in G40 Balance Mod - Feedback Thread:

What’s that pic from?

seriously? hahaha. you made the “sacred text” reference! its a very popular meme from Star Wars: The Las Jedi.

but seriously, i also fail to see how the proposed objective would encourage Allied DOW’s on the true neutrals (or why that is a desirable outcome, in any event)?

@oysteilo the lend lease is fun cuz you can chose to block it by devoting a sub to the sz, or taking the territory. I’ve played many games where Japan never invaded the middle east, but managed to block lend lease by putting a sub in sz 80. Seems like a reasonable strategic option.

@oysteilo Hey Oystello, fair question.

First, when we identified the lend lease routes, the issue of whether the SZ was marked a convoy zone was irrelevant. The only relevant question was, was this SZ used as one of the primary lend lease routes. If so, it was included in the objective.

Second, the purpose of the lend lease modification was to boost Russian income, relative to the vanilla game. Adding a convoy lane there would obviously have a reverse result.

Third, with BM, we strove to create a mod that could be played on the original map (including the OOB set) without modification. For this reason (and because we saw no overriding gameplay justification for it), we did not add or remove convoy zones.

Hope that helps!

awwwww yeah this game gonna be LIT!

@MrRoboto:

It’s exactly like it says: If Japan declares war.

If Russia declares war, Japan can’t.

correct.

I spectate y’all’s games a lot. Unfortunately, don’t have time for my own right now.

@oysteilo:

what is the purpose of canada mode?

To make sea lion more likely and easier for italy to control the med?

Just to be clear, there is no “Canada Mode” in BalanceMod.  :mrgreen: