Advanced Squad Leader

Re: Imperial borders

With this game being released next year I was wondering if HBG would be doing pieces for each country. I would be very interested. Thanks

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I am on a quest to convert most of my “pushing plastic” games’ maps to a larger roll up format. I have been able to do that with all of my A&A games thanks to this site! Does anyone have a hi-res scan of the History of the World Map? Either the New Avalon hill version or the Z-Man Games reprint is fine.

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11. Now it is the Allied turn. The same procedure is followed as before. The defending CAP fighter shoots at the incoming planes, and they get to fire back.

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12. The Japanese CAP fighter misses, but the Allied planes shoot it down.

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13. Both planes select the same carrier group to go after. The ships miss their AA fire, so the planes are free to attack.

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14. Both planes score a hit on the carrier and it is sunk. Planes must now return home.

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15. Planes on both sides must land on their carriers. The US plane lost its carrier, and so must ditch at sea (destroyed). Both sides may reshuffle the composition of their groups. At this point, the Japanese player decides if they wish to retreat, and they choose to continue the battle instead. The Allies, however, choose to retreat, The Allied ships return to port and the Japanese fleet continues on its original mission.

@Witt

The latest version is always available here:

https://www.nightingale-games.com/imperial-borders

I can definitely understand.

Anytime! Glad I could help a little. :-)

@Noll:

Do you know if there’s any good ww2 tactical game with turns instead of real time?

I tried heart of iron 3 (and that game doesn’t have turns either) but I find it too deep in rules to like it. (I feel like I need to read a 200pages manual to be able to play it)

I wouldn’t give up on the entire series, try Hearts of Iron 2 or Hearts of Iron Darkest Hour edition, both are much simpler and intuitive. You can download it from STEAM but make sure you get the game that says Darkest Hour: A Hearts of Iron game and not Darkest Hour Europe 44-45, thats and FPS not an RTS.

Darkest Hour is alot of fun with a much better map then the other HOI games. Also its the only one with a 1914 start date, which is alot of fun.

I have recently completed an advanced rules set for a WWII strategy game. This rules set is intended to do several things.

To give each unit type a historically accurate role. Fighters excel at shooting down enemy planes, but are not very well suited to attacking land or naval targets. Dive bombers are strong against land targets, are solid against naval targets, and can hold their own in a dogfight. Torpedo bombers are better than dive bombers against naval targets and submarines, can also hold their own in a dogfight, but are not well-suited to attacking land targets. Strategic bombers are intended to attack the enemy’s cities, and to create semi-permanent reductions in the enemy’s income and war-making ability.

To cause players to make big picture decisions involving research, industrialization, building up transportation networks, and other increases in war making capacity. No aspect of research, industrialization, and so forth is even remotely luck-based.

To provide a historically plausible representation of WWII. I freely admit that game balance has required me to interpret information in Axis-friendly ways. For example, Germany is able to convert its fighter force to jets on turn 4 (spring of '44), even though jets represented only a very small fraction of Germany’s military aircraft production for '44. But while I am willing to imagine away the difficulty of putting prototypes into widespread production, that represents the approximate maximum I will accept in deviating from the historically plausible.

Because this is the WWII history section, I’d like to ask people’s input about the game’s historical plausibility. Does this rules set overstate or understate the impact of specific technologies? Am I being too generous, or not generous enough, in my depiction of any given nation? Are there any technologies I have missed which should be included?

Please confine your comments to history-related questions such as the above. I also strongly welcome other comments about this rules set. The appropriate place for non-history-related comments is the main thread about Advanced Flames and Steel. Thanks.