@WILD:
Of course you could work in a lend lease program w/western powers and mobile industry so Russia could continue to build if Moscow falls.
This would be the LendLease: @kcdzim:
Bar them from having US or UK units in original USSR territories (instead remove them immediately and USSR can buy them at half cost rounded up the next round and replace them in their territories).
Russia shouldn’t ever get lendlease units for free, simply because if they were free Russia would be able to RAPIDLY outproduce Germany because US planes are being dumped into soviet hands and since the US is generally further from the action, handing over units to russia doesn’t hurt the US really at all, while Russia gets a larger stack than they should be able to build, which would make russia even tougher for germany.
However, if Russia can pay half price for allied units in their spaces (and place their new units in those appropriate spaces) it’s not nearly as broken a mechanic. Russia can build more than they normally could, but it still costs SOMETHING, and the other allies spend the bulk amount mobilizing and moving the units into Russian territories and lose full cost.
so, I would propose lendlease work as follows:
- An allied unit enters an originalRussian territory
- place a marker of some sort in that spot to specify type of unit and return the piece to the allied owners box (internment). If a territory with a marker is attacked before the russian turn, the marker does not participate in the battle and is immediately removed if the territory is captured (allies need to plan ahead, no do or die fighter defense drops unless it’s not an originalRussian territory.
- On russia’s purchase phase, any remaining markers can be repurchased as that type of unit for half price, rounded up.
- Russia may choose to mobilize a lendlease unit to its marker or to a production center (following standard mobilization rules eg it can’t exceed mobilization levels just because it’s lend lease). Obviously if the marker is at a production center, the marker doesn’t count against production levels.
- all remaining markers are removed from board. Call it reverse engineering or poor training & implemenation. Whatever it is, russia can’t SAVE up cheap fighters for a rainy day.
Again, this only occurs in original russian territories. Joint allied defense is still allowed for non original russian controlled territories. Allied units will hold the line there, but once inside the iron curtain they aren’t allowed to fight.
It doesn’t immediately give russia defensive units, and any lend lease unit will need to be protected until russias turn. Russia still has to pay a little to gain what could effectively be ALOT - 2 ipc infantry, 3 ipc tanks, 2 ipc artillery, 2 ipc mech, 5 ipc fighters, 6 ipc tacs, 6 ipc bombers. In return for the unit not being available that first round and potentially being lost if the drop goes to a vulnerable space, they can be remobilized to the space immediately, potentially closer to the action (siberian bombers). Allied planes can make their historic emergency landings (pacific theater b29 pilots interned and released, but the bombers were kept for reverse engineering), but just make sure the territory isn’t overrun before russia gets to enjoy the fruits of allied labor.
Obviously this is all house-ruley and stuff and I’d never expect any new Russian diplomatic rules to be implemented. I just wish they had been originally. I mean, china has bizarre special rules, Russia was just as unique as an allied power.