Best Alpha Modifications

[Young Grasshopper]

@FieldMarshalGames:

I like The Mongolian Rule

Just wish they also kept the 12 IPC rule to go with it.

I agree, the question that’s been buggin me lately is, does Japan still attack Russia in the north and just deal with the 6 extra infantry on the way to Moscow, or just plow through north China toward Stalingrad.

[Noll]

I like the new setup, the NOs and the scramble.

[cond1024]

The set up changes are my vote, espically on the pacific side of the board.  Even though Japan still has a ton of aircraft it is fewer than what they had in OOB.

Scrambling is also a big improvement and that would probably be my number 2 vote.

[Young Grasshopper]

@cond1024:

The set up changes are my vote, espically on the pacific side of the board.  Even though Japan still has a ton of aircraft it is fewer than what they had in OOB.

Scrambling is also a big improvement and that would probably be my number 2 vote.

I think scrambling has stolen this poll.

[Jennifer]

AA Guns by far!  For once they are a REAL unit!  (Before they were just something you used in opening fire and had no basis in reality or realism in my opinion.)

[theROCmonster]

scrambling! Imagine being able to take out every single UK ship on turn 1….

[Young Grasshopper]

I suppose the rule disallowing America from building a Major in Finland, was very significant for balance as well.

[special forces]

@Young:

I suppose the rule disallowing America from building a Major in Finland, was very significant for balance as well.

You mean Norway. But yes, it’s a big difference

[Clyde85]

I think scrambling and the AA rule changes are my favorite. The rule keeping airforces from scrambling off anything that wasnt an island contained in a single sea zone was a hold over from the old pacific game, the first one to ever use naval or air bases, when all of these bases were only on islands to beging with. It needed to change and has added so much more to game play.

Having AA be its own unit really needed to happen. With all the new facilities and bases comming with their own self-contained AA, there really wasnt much point to independent AA as its primary function in previous games had been to protect ICs. Its neat, keeps the simplified old rule for AA for facilities and bases defense, and adds a component of AA to standing armies.

[Young Grasshopper]

@special:

@Young:

I suppose the rule disallowing America from building a Major in Finland, was very significant for balance as well.

You mean Norway. But yes, it’s a big difference

You’re right, I meant Norway.