Hi All
Wanted to share some house rules that we play A&A 1942 second edition with. Would love any feedback. Here it goes.
Special Seazone Restrictions
Gibraltar; Surface naval units may only pass between seazones 13 and 14 if their side controls Gibraltar
Baltic, Sea zone 5: Surface naval units may only pass between seazones 5 and 6 if their side controls Northwestern Europe
Turkish Straits, Seazone 16: Surface naval units may only pass between seazones 15 and 16 if their side controls 4 or more territories bordering neutral Turkey
Facilities
Industrial Complex: No new industrial complexes may be placed on a single seazone island territory.
Naval Units
Cruiser Class AA Capability. Cruiser class naval units have built in defensive AA capability. Cruiser class units have a preemptive roll up to 3 dice @1 to hit against attacking aircraft prior to the start of regular combat.
Destroyer Transport Duty: Destroyers that have not moved during the Combat Phase may transport 1 infantry class unit during the non-combat phase.
Air Units
Probably the biggest changes we’ve made is changing cost and values of default air units and introducing Tac Bombers from Europe/Pacific/Global as well as introduce a new unit, Medium Bomber (got the pieces from Historical Board Gaming) that is a versatile bomber that can perform ground/naval attacks as well as SBR. The changes in price and values was influenced in large part by Baron Munchhausen.
Special abilities are all default so I don’t specifically state below however, Fighter units have a hit priority of other air units when attacking or defending, Med Bomber can SBR and Strategic Bombers get +2 damage against industrial complex during SBR. We use option interception rules for SBR
Fighter: A2 D3 M4 Cost:7 Hit priority Air Units
Tac Bomber: A3 D2 M4 Cost:8
Med. Bomber: A3 D2 M6 Cost:10 Can SBR
Strategic Bomber: A2 D1 M8 Cost:12 +2 SBR damage
The game still leans towards Axis victory. Going to try balancing a little with starting Russia with a Med. Bomber (the Moscow bomber idea that I’ve read about here) as well as try Younggrasshopper’s house rule of ‘Round the Clock Bombing’
Would love feedback, especially on our cost/values of air units.
Thanks for reading.
