I’m new to the game and the forum, and it seems like a lot of people are upset over how unbalanced the game is (I haven’t played it enough to be too bothered by it), but I was just wondering what you guys would think of moving the point value of some of Germany’s territories over to West Russia? Axis and Allies is supposed to be a somewhat asymmetrical game where the Axis try to take as much as they can as fast as they can whereas the Allies are trying to last long enough to where their greater total IPC income can overcome the larger force that the axis start the game with. By moving the points to West Russia (a territory that they usually lose turn one). The IPC gap between the axis and the allies gets even bigger after turn one so the allies can start taking control sooner.
The way I see it, by lowering the value of some of Germany’s less important regions you can boost the value of West Russia to 8 points. An easy start to doing this would be merging Morocco and Algeria to a 1-point territory and making Norway worth 1 point instead of two. You can also lower the value of other territories like Poland, Ukraine S.S.R., Bulgaria Romania, and Southern Europe. That change in 8 points after the first round both raises the Allies’ income and lowers the Axis’, so it is like a 16-point shift in the Allies’ favor. I believe that this is greater than most starting bids (I don’t know I haven’t played enough yet), but it shouldn’t make the game Allies’ advantage now because the beginning of the game looks the same as before. At any rate, this should make Germany either weaker in the late game if they don’t take it back quickly or thinner in the short game if they do. Either position is good for the Allies.
Now this may not be very historically accurate as there’s no way West Russia was worth this much, and it has the odd quirk of making Russia have more income than both Britain and Japan, but again, you guys probably know more than me, and could figure out if a 6 or 7 point swing would be more balanced/realistic.
This would probably have to be for LHTR because OOB might be way too unbalanced. Let me know if you guys think that this would be a good idea.

I’m new to the game and the forum, and it seems like a lot of people are upset over how unbalanced the game is (I haven’t played it enough to be too bothered by it), but I was just wondering what you guys would think of moving the point value of some of Germany’s territories over to West Russia? Axis and Allies is supposed to be a somewhat asymmetrical game where the Axis try to take as much as they can as fast as they can whereas the Allies are trying to last long enough to where their greater total IPC income can overcome the larger force that the axis start the game with. By moving the points to West Russia (a territory that they usually lose turn one). The IPC gap between the axis and the allies gets even bigger after turn one so the allies can start taking control sooner.
The way I see it, by lowering the value of some of Germany’s less important regions you can boost the value of West Russia to 8 points. An easy start to doing this would be merging Morocco and Algeria to a 1-point territory and making Norway worth 1 point instead of two. You can also lower the value of other territories like Poland, Ukraine S.S.R., Bulgaria Romania, and Southern Europe. That change in 8 points after the first round both raises the Allies’ income and lowers the Axis’, so it is like a 16-point shift in the Allies’ favor. I believe that this is greater than most starting bids (I don’t know I haven’t played enough yet), but it shouldn’t make the game Allies’ advantage now because the beginning of the game looks the same as before. At any rate, this should make Germany either weaker in the late game if they don’t take it back quickly or thinner in the short game if they do. Either position is good for the Allies.
Now this may not be very historically accurate as there’s no way West Russia was worth this much, and it has the odd quirk of making Russia have more income than both Britain and Japan, but again, you guys probably know more than me, and could figure out if a 6 or 7 point swing would be more balanced/realistic.
This would probably have to be for LHTR because OOB might be way too unbalanced. Let me know if you guys think that this would be a good idea.