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Lets Talk PT Boats

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Torpedo boats….I like. I think there kind of a different animal that a PT boat, which used machine guns.
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actually they should have a first strike capability like subs. They rely on surprise after all.
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How about torpedo boats attack 2, defend 1, and cost five, otherwise the same as PT boats in terms of movement and hits.
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AA14 - Let's make it happen!

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Make sure when you play Germany to Gas the french real good. You got a few turns before they can gas you and you get gas masks sooner.

Man i love sending in gas canisters against the allies.

Turn 1 is a good turn to launch the German fleet, use your zeppelins and always take the Schlieffen Plan option.

Try to kill one front then the other. If you try both you may fail. You can also just grab some french and go after Russia. Latter in the game Russia will fall by itself, but to remove it early is huge.

Don’t let the Ottomans get too weak. If they go you lose the whole front because they cut the board in half.
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Lets Talk Heavy Artillery

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@crusaderiv:

Well heavy artillery for me means katyusha rockets,nebelwefer and 155mm long tom.
heavy artillery attack and defend on 3. May choose is target in the first round fo combat.

that just seems like another way to do regulare artillery.

And I agree I would rather have a rocket artillery unit than siege guns, but i think rocket artillery would have a more offenisve nature, not just generaly good.
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Here’s our WAW rules.

Mechanized infantry=

Move 2 (units can retreat after one round of combat).
att = 2
def= 2
Cost = 4

(Japan,france and China cannot produce mechanized infantry).
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Lets Talk Rockets!

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@Upside-down_Turtle:

Rocket Tech now has two levels: V1 and V2. Rolling Rockets gets you V1s. A second roll on rockets get you V2s.

V1 costs 1 IPC, has a range of two, and does damage = 1d6 halved. Radar makes a country immune to V1s.
*If you think this makes Radar too powerful, AA roles 1 die against each V1. A role of 1 fails to shoot it down
**If you think the above rule allows too many V1s to hit, use a d10 or d12 for more realistic statistics.

V2 costs 2 IPCs, has a range of 3, and does damage = 1d6. Theses rockets are unstoppable. May carry an Atomic Bomb.
*If you think that is too powerful, make a V3 level for nukes.

these are good rules, i think AA guns and and fighters should be able to intercept them like regular aircraft though. i was able to shoot down a V1 buzz bomb in a WW2 flight simulator game.

I think the V2 rule are good to, although i dont think they were as effective a stratigic attacks as a whole bomber group. Maybe half their damage and keep them costing 1.

I like the idea of V3 and maybe even V4 rockets that can launch nukes even long distance
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Lets Talk Neutrals!

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if neutrals are building infantry and such, then we go back to who gets to decide that? if they are neutral they we can’t say the other side, because both sides are the other side. if we give neutrals a standing army, and a military growth chart that sets how they grow each round or so, but deciding what Spain or Saudi Arabia could build is gonna be a big argument in game by the two sides and really isn’t going to be worth playing with, unless we made all the neutrals a standing 7th player and let them work together the whole game, but that’s so far from history…

–if we give neutrals a standing army, then to declare war I would think shouldn’t need to cost anything, as they have to fight enemy troops and there is a cost to that.
–if we don’t give them a standing army, then yes, there should be a cost to declaring war, whether in dice, or that they have to move the number of units equal to the value of the territory in, or that the other side gets to roll equal number of dice to the value of the territory, then divide in half, round up to take the economic toll. in some way should be a cost, beyond the classic 3IPC cost.
–if it is just diplomatic, then the cost of the dice work for that.
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This is my ground unit set-up. I’m using the FMG AA Gun (nation specific) as a second artillery piece.

Piece Name Attack Defense Move Cost Special

Soldier 1 Infantry 1 2 1 3

Soldier 2 Commando 2 2 1 4 Sea or Air attack +1

Gun 1 Artillery 2 2 1 4 +1 for 1 infantry

Gun 2 Heavy Artillery 3 2 1 5 +1 for 2 infantry

Truck Motorized Inf. 1 2 2 4 Can Blitz w/ artillery

Half-Track Mech. Infantry 2 2 2 4 Can Blitz

Tank 1 Armor 3 3 2 6 Can Blitz

Tank 2 Heavy Armor 4 4 2 8 Can Blitz
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the 5-5 comes from the Revised Most Powerful Battleships National Advantage for Japan.

The firing twice in the first round comes from a Revised Larry Harris Tournament Rule revision. The NA was titled Naval Night Fighting Skills, yet only applied to the battleships. Personally, I don’t think it was named well. I simply fuse the two.

Also, I think most house rules I’ve seen give SBBs 3 hits. I considered keeping it at 2 hits, but after I gave my supper carriers 2 hits, SBBs needed 3.
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kinda takes you back, doesn’t it?

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