G40 Balance Mod - Feedback Thread

[simon33]

Suggestion for BM5 if anyone is interested:

Disable the Iwo Jima+Okinawa objective by default.
Return to 6IPC for the Chinese objective.

I guess that makes Pacific victory harder to get. Only a minority of games go that way, so perhaps not a huge change. Or maybe that exaggerates the change.

[regularkid]

@simon33 you are free to do anything you like, but don’t call it BalancedMod (BM).

[Panther]

I have moved the postings reporting TripleA issues with BM to the TripleA support category:
https://www.axisandallies.org/forums/topic/35826/triplea-issues-with-bm
as those issues do not seem to be related to BM itself but rather to outdated map- or engine-versions.

[Gargantua]

Ok Gentlemen.

In the entire history of BM, and all games played. has this EVER happened?

“The Vichy French forces in the Southern France and sz 93 will also revert back if Southern France is liberated by the Free French.”

I’m just wondering why this rule exists? It seems a waste of pixels on the screen, since it’s totally impractible, if not impossible to ever have occur.

It’s technically impossible to achieve this prior to France 3, and that’s assuming the Germans let a loaded British transport survive in the channel. It’s most likely unfeasible until late game, at which time the “vichy” benefit has expired, and most likely Germany or Italy will walk in with 1 unit for the $3.

Last - even if someone managed to get a free french inf into Normandy, whilst SFR was still pro-axis. Germany goes immediately after France, with Italy going just before France and since it’s not a combat, it’s a riskless move to walk in, and there is no way either party would ever allow France to inherit these free units!

[trulpen]

It has happened.

[Gargantua]

Can you show an example? I would very much love to see.

[Karl7]

@Gargantua

Yeah, I managed it once.

[Gargantua]

Pics or FAKE NEWS.

[trulpen]

The background is that I’m both stupid and unlucky. It’s a bad combo.

This is very recent actually. A game of P2V with @CaptainNapalm.

Germany’s horrible situation stems from a bold air-strike of the remaining british fleet in z112. Had 75 % and expected +20 TUV. Got diced hard and lost 9 air and a cr. -40 TUV and obliterated Luftwaffe.

The specific situation is due me forgetting that the units in S Fr will revert to french if France is liberated. Thought they would disband. I should of course have moved down 1 german inf and disbanded them, also getting 3 IPC for the trouble.

Anyhow. This is proof and evidence that it can happen.

[Gargantua]

I’m very sorry to hear about your dice, and your total lack of axis competence on this issue :)

But I greatly respect your resolve in bravely posting “bad press” about a situation you were in. You sir, get kudos from me! Condolences on your loss.

Except I have to point out. What you said happened - NEVER happened.

#1. France didn’t liberate anything!?!?!? The USA walked into Paris.
#2. The allies DESTROYED the fleet portion of the forces in question, which basically discounts the purpose of the rule I was referring to.
#3… The rule is EXPLICITY clear about the French entering Southern France to liberate it seperately. And it clear did not happen in this case.

N E X T!

[Gargantua]

to clarify again:

“The Vichy French forces in the Southern France and sz 93 will also revert back if Southern France is liberated by the Free French.”

Neither the Free French, nor Southern France, were even involved in the example?

[trulpen]

@Gargantua said in G40 Balance Mod - Feedback Thread:

to clarify again:

“The Vichy French forces in the Southern France and sz 93 will also revert back if Southern France is liberated by the Free French.”

Neither the Free French, nor Southern France, were even involved in the example?

Ah, that’s a good point, sir…

[simon33]

I pretty sure it has been done to me only because I didn’t realise the rule.

[regularkid]

@Gargantua i guess you could say its like the BM equivalent of the en passant rule–an obscure rule that is hardly ever used, but knowledge of which separates the pros from the mere dilettantes. It also took alot of coding to make it work, so I don’t think its going to change anytime soon ;)

What’s the reasoning for this obscure, rarely talked-about rule: in constructing the Vichy France ruleset, we had to consider every scenario, including those that were highly unlikely but still theoretically possible.

One scenario that needed to be addressed: what would likely have happened if Charles De Gaulle marched into Southern France with a Free French army at his back. Would fighting break out between the Vichy Forces and the Free French Forces (i.e., a civil war?). Or is it more likely that the Vichy Forces would simply join up with the Free French. To me, the latter scenario is more likely. Hence the rule.

Also, it has happened in at least one game I can remember. And it was glorious.

[aequitas-et-veritas]

@Gargantua said in G40 Balance Mod - Feedback Thread:

I’m very sorry to hear about your dice, and your total lack of axis competence on this issue :)

But I greatly respect your resolve in bravely posting “bad press” about a situation you were in. You sir, get kudos from me! Condolences on your loss.

Except I have to point out. What you said happened - NEVER happened.

#1. France didn’t liberate anything!?!?!? The USA walked into Paris. FAKE NEWS
#2. The allies DESTROYED the fleet portion of the forces in question, which basically discounts the purpose of the rule I was referring to. FAKE NEWS
#3… The rule is EXPLICITY clear about the French entering Southern France to liberate it seperately. And it clear did not happen in this case.

N E X T!

German french supporter betrayed their own men!!! Mashala:laughing: :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

[Gargantua]

@regularkid said in G40 Balance Mod - Feedback Thread:

One scenario that needed to be addressed: what would likely have happened if Charles De Gaulle marched into Southern France with a Free French army at his back. Would fighting break out between the Vichy Forces and the Free French Forces (i.e., a civil war?). Or is it more likely that the Vichy Forces would simply join up with the Free French. To me, the latter scenario is more likely. Hence the rule.

Interesting response…

Even if it’s completely A-historical, when compared to the battle of Dakar for example (see below).

I respect all the effort that has gone into this. To code it etc. But just because a fanciful and glorious item is coded, doesn’t mean that it makes any sense, or is at all practical, and I have yet to see any proof of it happening - ever, just lots of fanciful notions that people “think” it occurred at least once.

**"*On 23 September, the Fleet Air Arm dropped propaganda leaflets on the city of Dakar. Then, two Free French Caudron C.272 aircraft and a Fairey Swordfish carrying three Free French officers flew off Ark Royal and landed at the airport, but their crews were immediately taken prisoner. On one of the prisoners was found a list of Free French sympathisers in Dakar, whom the Vichy authorities promptly rounded up.[4] A boat with representatives of de Gaulle entered the port but was fired upon. British aircraft were also fired upon by the anti-aircraft guns of the Richelieu and a Curtiss Hawk 75 fighter.[5] At 10:00, Vichy ships trying to leave the port were given warning shots from Australia. As these ships returned to port, Vichy-controlled coastal batteries opened fire on Australia. Their guns, which had a range of 14 km (8.7 mi), were 240mm/50 Modèle 1902 gun that had come from the Vergniaud, a French semi-dreadnought battleship that had been scrapped in the 1920s.[6] An engagement between the Allied fleet and the batteries continued for several hours. In the afternoon Australia intercepted and fired on the Vichy destroyer L’Audacieux, setting her on fire and causing her to be beached.

Also in the afternoon, an attempt was made to set Free French troops ashore on a beach at Rufisque, to the south-east of Dakar. However, Vichy reconnaissance aircraft spotted the attempted landing[7] and the attack failed due to fog and heavy fire from strongpoints defending the beach.[8] General de Gaulle declared he did not want to “shed the blood of Frenchmen for Frenchmen” and called off the assault."***

[trulpen]

I only considered the game, not actual events. Seems this feature is anachronistic, but on the other hand the most important factor is game-balance.

[Gargantua]

@trulpen said in G40 Balance Mod - Feedback Thread:

I only considered the game, not actual events. Seems this feature is anachronistic, but on the other hand the most important factor is game-balance.

Seeing as it has no factor on 99.9% and probably 100% of games, it plays no part in Balance :)

Basically, we have a “special case” rule, where a pro-axis is actually, ALSO a pro-allied.

It’s confusing, unhistorical, and unnecessary :)

Strike it from the record!

[ksmckay]

@freh said in G40 Balance Mod - Feedback Thread:

This is a question about Balanced Mod 3 and the interaction of rules related to Marines, specifically on an ally’s ship. It’s relevant to a BMgame I’m playing now.

For these examples, assume I have an ANZAC marine on a US cruiser adjacent to a Japanese territory, and it’s ANZAC’s turn.

1. If the sz is empty, the marine can do a legal amphibious assault.

2. if I have a Japanese sub in the SZ, I assume ANZAC would have to have an accompanying ANZAC warship in order to allow them to ignore the Japanese sub, and do the AA. Correct?

3. If I can scramble into the SZ, then what happens? If there’s no ANZAC warship or plane, then there’s nothing to scramble against, is there, but I still think the marine shouldn’t be able to land because it has nothing there to defeat my potential scramble, correct? Would they still have the option to try to do the AA just to force me to scramble a plane to negate it? Or is an AA not legal without an ANZAC warship or plane present to defeat the potential scramble?

4. defending sub + scramble option: ANZAC would need it’s own surface warship (to be able to ignore the sub & defend against the scramble, if I chose to scramble), or a sub (ignore the sub and avoid potential scrambling). But if ANZAC only brings in planes, then it can’t ignore the sub, and a combat move AA isn’t legal.

5. Now what happens if it’s a kamikaze sz? Technically I can’t use the kami because it’s ANZAC’s turn, not the US, so technically the US cruiser isn’t eligible for a kami. So can the marine land, if there’s no defensive sub, no scramble option, and no ANZAC warship or plane?

1. Yes
2. No, attacker can always ignore enemy subs. exception for unescorted transports. But even if this was a transport it wouldnt matter since its a US ship.
3. You cant scramble unless there are other anzac ships. Japanese cant engage american ships on anzac turn.
4. Still doesnt matter. If anzac decided to send planes to the sea zone, then japan could scramble against those planes but that wouldnt affect the marine/cruiser at all.
5. Kamikaze wouldnt do anything. Japan can only use kamikazes against eligible anzac units on anzac turn.

So if anzac has a marine on a US cruiser (or transport) it can unload as an amphibious assault no matter what. Kamikazes cant stop it, scrambling cant stop it, subs cant stop it.

[freh]

@ksmckay

So for 2), if I have anzac units on American transports in that SZ, can they do an aa? I would think no… that wouldn’t make sense to me. an unescorted sub can’t ignore a defending sub, but it can if it’s an ally’s transport, even though it’s performing the same action.

for the others, it just seems to violate the spirit of the rule, that transports can’t unload in a hostile SZ (either where there’s a scramble possibility or a defending sub) without support.

Also I’m not sure why the mods moved my post to the Path to Victory thread when I mean this for Balanced Mod (although it may relate to PtV as well)