First I want to say that I’m a greenhorn when it comes to forums so I don’t know if I should be responding as a new topic. Anyway, Trisdin & Upsidedown Turtle I have read both your house rules and I like them, as for playtesting right now I am trying to get my house rules organized, coherent & playtested, however I like both your ideas and if you don’t mind will probably try using some. Couple of comments, first Nukes are cool but Turtle you are right about implementing them in the game. The way I see it Nukes is basically a game over thing, if you water down nukes what’s the point of even trying to get them. I tend to avoid having nukes in my games. But if you’re striving for the historical feel gotta have nukes.
As for destroyers doing shore bombardment, I agree with Turtle, why not? During D-Day there was an American destroyer that came in very close to shore to provide desperately needed fire support at Omaha Beach. HOWEVER, in my games I don’t allow DD shore bombard simply because I want a little extra incentive to buy battleships & cruisers.
Now for A&A miniatures, its alright but I hate the random crap, I want to buy what I want & in quantities I want. But I have been buying them. The other drawback I feel is that the miniature game is extremely dice heavy, this just isn’t the thread for me to get into game mechanics. What is really cool is the A&A War at Sea miniature game that lets you fight fleet battles. If you are thinking about miniature wargaming check into Flames of War.
Finally the reason for me posting all this as a new topic is because I have been wondering about players performing SBRs during their games. I’ve have come across many, many house rules concerning escort/interceptor fighters for SBRs and use it in my house rules. My question is, do you see more or less SBRs conducted during games when using escort/interceptor rules. My experience has been SBRs are drastically reduced. It seems in our games SBRs are resorted to when a player is desperate to slow down the enemy and attempts to do this buy going after income. The only other time I use it is when I’m attempting to try and knock out the Lutfwaffe. My opponent caught onto this right away so he wouldn’t challenge me in the air until the SBRs got to painful. However, due to some bad dice rolls on my part & unbelievable good rolls on his part I suffered heavy casualties, oh the growing pains of the 8th US AirForce. In short, are there more or less SBRs in your games? Just wondering, sorry if this was too long :|