AA50e anyone?

[Wilson2]

I am a huge fan of AARe. I think it revolutionized AAR: I don’t play AAR or LHTR anymore. I think AA50 could use something like that. I like AA50 as is, but I think it could use some touch up. For example, Germany fleet and air are impractical, China loses its fighter first turn either game mode, and heavy bombers @ 12! That’s messed up. I would also like to see the techs balanced and maybe less random techs. There are a lot of house rules floating around out there, but I would like something that has been tested. Anyway, I was wondering if the old team was interested in tackling this one.
Anyway, Ideas and criticism is welcome. Unless anyone else beats me to it, I will post some starting ideas tomorrow (need to shower and go to bed for church.
(For those who have never heard of AARe, just go up a few threads to the sticky ones. read it and play it. It is amazing)

[axis_roll]

Welcome fellow Enhancer!

Discussions of applying the great AARe dynamics to AA50 started a while back with Jennifer basically porting over the NAs and other concepts of AARe to AA50 {UGH, INSTANT TECH BREAKS THE GAME, IMHO, especially if it’s targetted the way AARe did it.}  It was a hodgepodge of rules (and not needed in my humble opinion).

These discussions are probably buried in the house rules section.

…And that’s were they should go.

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Later on, Cousin Joe (originator of AARe) posted some interesting thoughts, perhaps his thoughts just need a wider audience to game play test and work out the wrinkles, perhaps not.

So if you wanted to get a discussion of how to Enhance AA50 properly (not just tweak all the NA rules and bastardize the 4:2 tech), I would read Cousin Joes posts in the house section.

I think if you re-started the discussion in that fashion, we might get somewhere.

[Wilson2]

Oh no. I never intended a carrying over of the rules from AARe at all. I merely meant I liked the way AARe was done in that a lot of thought was put into it. (as opposed to every person making up what sounds best to him) In fact, most of the ideas I thought up are not from AARe. A few are: namely convoy raids. But anyway, thanks for the advice. I’ll try to find that thread and post my ideas there.

[Veqryn]

i made 2 mods for TripleA’s aa50,

1. China takes their turn with Russia (plus a number of other balancing changes and some units moved around)

2. UK starts with a factory as a bid, meaning they place a factory somewhere on the board before the game begins (plus a number of other other balancing changes, and some units moved around)

both games have tech activation happen at the END of a turn, not right after you roll.  so for example, if i rolled for tech and got heavy bombers, then i would not get it right away, but instead would get it during the place-units phase at the end of the turn.

both games also have the options to use LHTR heavy bombers (roll 2 dice, pick best, if sbr add 1), and to turn tech off completely
and to use LOW LUCK dice, yay