Global 1940 Alpha 2 - cash in all units and purchase House Rule

@BigBadBruce:

@taschuler:

I wanted to get some feedback on a house rule where players purchase all of their units and place as they wish prior to the start using the total IPC values from Alpha 2 setup, and still using all Alpha 2 rules and National Objectives.

RULES:

• All Industrial Complexes and Naval/Air Bases Remain and are not cashed in

• Additional Industrial Complexes and Naval/Air Bases may be purchased with the players cash, with the exception of China which may not build any of these

• Each territory with an IPC value of 2 thru 5 must have Infantry (Mechanized or regular) in a quantity of at least one less than the IPC value of the territory

• Territories with an IPC value higher than 6 must have at least 5 Infantry (see the United States mainland)

• There will be four placement turns prior to the first actual turn of the game. Each player purchases and places their units in reverse order of the normal turn order. France first, Italy second, etc.

• The Chinese player may only purchase (non-mechanized) Infantry and a single Fighter, but the Chinese player is not required to purchase a Fighter

• A maximum of 2 IPCs can be carried over to the next turn, with the exception of turn 4 when up to 5 IPCs may be saved for the players first actual turn in the game

• Players cannot place units in territories other than their own with the exception of Japanese controlled China, France and UK (London), ANZAC and UK (London or Calcutta). The UK player must keep his two sides separate and cannot share money or place units on the other side of the map.

CASH PER PLAYER PER TURN (in placement order):

• FRANCE (Total 132): 33 per turn

• ITALY (Total 223): 56 for the first three turns, 55 for turn four

• ANZAC (Total 91): 23 per turn, 22 for turn four

• UK (Calcutta) (Total 130): 33 for the first two turns, 32 for the last two turns

• UK (London) (Total 318): 80 for the first two turns, 79 for the last two turns

• China (Total 58): 15 for the first three turns, 13 for turn four

• USA (Total 278): 70 for the first two turns, 69 for the last two turns

• Japan (Total 570): 142 for the first two turns, 141 for the last two turns

• Russia (Total 248): 62 per turn

• Germany (Total 399): 100 for the first three turns, 99 for the last turn

Kinna introduce a Risk’s placement, I love it.
This sounds very interesting. I would allow Chian to build Art, as they have Burma road open. Also I would also gives NO that qualifies after last purhcase, ie. more money for first turn expense. I would try such game, in 1vs1 game.

That a novel set up. has anyone tried it yet?

I’m planing on trying it out this weekend  (Sorry, my weekends are Monday night and Tuesday night).  I will let you all know how it goes.

If France chooses not to defend itself appropriately, then Germany will be in a far better position to attack England or Russia.  That should be enough deterrant, don’t you think?

What I really like is that you won’t have the blasted French unit on England anymore.  I continually kill all the French units except that infantry and a fighter and always have to wait for “France” to take it’s turn!

Well, I tried out this new setup and it looks pretty neat.  For one thing, except for Japan, USA and UK, most countries kind of built light on navy.  UK built a good fleet in SZ 109 plus a few warships in the Med to harass the Italians.  However, Germany built 10 subs on their last turn and on G1, along with some aircraft managed to sink all UK ships so UK took it’s Med fleet back up to England.  France only built 1 destroyer and placed it by FIC to use as a blocker for the Japanese – not realizing that until Japan declares war on France, Jap ships can pass right through.  It wasn’t a total waste.  On F1, France declared war on Japan and used that destroyer to sink 4 unescorted Jap transports.
You will see that Germany and Russia basically tried to out build each other along the border, which was kind of expected.  China got all infantry + 1 fighter and tried to create a defense wall against the Japanese.  Unfortunately for China, Japan had many more men and equipment.
Our USA player is adopting an all Pacific strategy with a huge fleet and invasion force.
France had a lot of stuff on it’s home territories but got overwhelmed by Germany and Italy anyway.  They also had a decent force in Tunisia hoping to stop the Italians, which didn’t work.
Italy, rather than buying lots of navy, simply placed more land units in Africa.
UK India concentrated on more land units while ANZAC built a little more navy than usual.

So far, we have gotten through the setup, which took some time since it required 4 rounds of purchasing and setup, and have finished Round 1.  We hope to start Round 2 tonight and see how far we can get. 
France is all but eliminated.  Germany is about to attack Russia after more or less neutralizing the Royal Navy and taking France.  Russia has a lot along the border, but not much in reserve.  Italy took S France, Yugoslavia and Greece and is doing fairly well in Africa, especially N Africa, but there is a good size British presence and UK is making good use of the S Africa complex.
Japan is smashing into China.  Russia ignored the far east so Japan just waltzed into those territories.  Japan has a large force on Yunnan, poised to attack Burma.  Japan may take India J3 unless they take a lot of losses.  Bad news for Japan is they have lost most of their transports thanks to ANZAC and France.  USA fleet is at Midway poised to strike Japan.  That could go either way since Japan did not leave much navy in SZ 6.
Here’s a couple of slightly closer up pics of Europe and Pacific areas.  I will let you all know more as the game progresses.

Stack China in Szechwan and India in Burma, best chance for China, I think…

so is anyone up for a game with this house rule??

Most assuredly.@thatonekid:

so is anyone up for a game with this house rule??

ok jen, you want axis or allies? or do you wanna bid???

really hard to bid since you cannot adequately judge the strength of each side yet, perhaps just throw a die?  Odds you are allies, evens I am allies?

ok sure Rolls: 1@1; Total Hits: 11@1: (1)

ps i did it like that cuz idk how to just roll

so it looks like im allies, start a forum and do germanies first buy  (oh, and list the rules that we’re doing this with, im still confused about where naval units can be placed and junk)