Hey all,
Aside from using diffrent rule sets are there any other ways all y’all limit NA’s?
Yes, generally speaking, I have found that most players roll two dice for each country and then the allies pick 1 nation for ALL the allies (Russia or England or America) and the axis pick 1 for each nation (Germany gets 1 and Japan gets 1.)
That results in 7 NAs for the Allies and 6 NAs for the Axis. Then there’s the bid for more money/units at start of game.
I’ve also seen where you just pick the NAs. Each side gets 6 picks (3ger,3jap v. 2rus,2usa,2uk)
NAs are fun. If you’re tired of the “same old AAR,” NAs make the game much more interesting!
Japan: Lightening strike was replaced with Most Powerful Battleships. Attack and defend at 5.
My last three FTF games have been “all-NAs-turned-on-for-all-nations” and I don’t think I’ll ever go back.
~Josh
I don’t debate that NAs add character. But I do say that the NAs, particularly the OOB NAs, make the Allies a heck of a lot stronger.
True… I play LHTR though. As has been said by someone before - I forget who - , OOB Lend-lease and Superfortresses are stupidly and insanely powerful.
In LHTR, I think that Germany has the best NAs overall, when all nations have all of 'em active.
~Josh
OOB lightening strike was taken out because that is super powerful.
OOB lightening strike was taken out because that is super powerful.
SUPER powerful, I disagree with.
Best German OOB NA, yeah. But super powerful, no.
It was Japans. And it can wreak havoc.
I’ve never played with all NAs. I would think that would make the allies incredibly strong, both OOB and LHTR since they’d get 50% more NAs then the Axis. (18 vs 12)
Try it.
~Josh
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Crazystraw: that avatar is hilarious! How’d you do that/find that?
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If someone wants to make a bid for Axis, I’ll play with all NAs. LHTR style though. No lightening strike.
Actually, that avatar is of an old video game character.
It was the hero of “Karateka”, a Broderbund game.
That game was pretty funny. You fight your way across a lot of levels, and at the end, if you walk towards the princess, she kicks you in the nuts and kills you. (If you walk towards her, you’re in a fighting stance. You have to run).
The character doesn’t bust a move though. I bet someone decided to have fun with the character.
I thought djensen didn’t want animated avatars on here for some reason?
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Straw:
That might be accurate for out of the box rules. But I disagree that Joint Strike is a game breaker.
Odds are you are using Joint Strike to kill a massive German fleet in SZ 5 so you stop getting crippled by UBoats. Yes, those things are VERY annoying! Get 10 of them and you’re doing -10 to England, -10 to America and you’ve probably taken all of Africa and Japan has Australia, New Zealand, Madagascar, India, Persia and T-J. That means England’s earning about, uhm, 1 IPC? America’s earning about 28 IPC?
After Joint Strike, England’s at 11 IPC and America’s back to 38 IPC. (Since odds are you can’t land troops AND sink the German fleet.)
Dug-in Defenders are stupid. Though, they are useful in preventing an allied invasion of Japan itself.
Banzai has been pretty effective for me.
Dive-Bombers are just friggin awesome! Attack at 5 or less? Same with Super Battleships, means you almost always score a hit with your bombardments!
Then you add in Inf and Art defending at 3 or less for Germany and amphibious assaults become almost impossible.
In return most of England’s NA’s are worthless and ALL of Russia’s NAs are worthless in a traditional game.
yes, I agree somewhat.
I can play a pretty killer setup with Allied if you want to play I’ll show you :)
