Oil Centers in AAG40

Oil has been a very common house rule discussed. I found Burans oil house rule and that is my favorite one I’ve seen thus far, but there is one thing I don’t entirely like. There seem to be 2 main uses for oil in most of the forums.

A- you turn oil in for money. This one doesn’t totally make sense to me because oil doesn’t necessarily mean lots of money. As I look at it, Russia had a ton of oil in the war, but that didn’t mean they could build a massive air force right away, it just meant they had a lot of oil.

B- you use up X amount of oil to move as many of one branch as you want. Like X oil allows you to move your army, or your navy, or your airforce. This one doesn’t makes less sense to me because ANZAC obviously would need less oil to move it’s 3 boats than Japan would to move the entire IJN, yet with this rule, they both require the same amount of oil.

I assume I’m not alone in thinking this. There are some more specific ones I saw a while back but they were still pretty close to what I said in B. The idea of having a supply line intrigued me, as I got started in this by wanting to reflect the U-boat disruptions against convoys better, but I don’t like that the US fleet could be anywhere in the pacific and still get fuel easily just because of a supply line. Maybe that could work good, it just doesn’t seem totally realistic, however on land it would make more sense to me.

Does anybody have a good rule for how to use oil to fuel units? I’d like to stay close to the numbers involved Burans house rule and be close to historically accurate. Of course, I can’t totally accurate in regards to oil production as Baku in the Caucasus was producing like 10-15 times as much oil as Romania.

Thanks for the input. This is Burans rule is referring to-https://www.axisandallies.org/forums/topic/23944/oil-rule-s

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I’d have to imagine considering making those territories have the ability to build major complexes would be a bit too steep and game altering. It’s an interesting rule though! I like the idea of just producing one more IPC, but not counting towards industrial complex strengths. You can make it so they can be bombed as well and have to be repaired, like any other facility as well. If it’s bombed, you don’t get the bonus income until repaired.

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I figured out what these are about. I didnt make the file and i have it saved for many years and not sure where i got it from.

Letter A= attack
Letter D= Defense
Letter S= strategic commander
Letter T= Tactical commander
Icons indicate +1 for the the listed icon for those units.

Strategic commander is a commander that you assign to a front ( western or eastern, etc)
Its effect can be for any units in combat in that front.

Tactical commander is a commander you place in an specific area that is physically with the units, if the units die the commander dies.

I suspect you have only one SC and about two TC in each front and not more than three fronts.

One thing i didn’t figure out was a total of three commanders have SSDA. I am not sure what the extra S means. It could be a surprise attack allowing it to fire first at +1 each round?

The Factories (As well as some of the Mnor Axis Units) came from “The War Game” (which is a great game).

League of Nations:

Political costs for a DOW along the Russian/Japanese border result in world outrage against the aggressor nation.

If Russia conducts a DOW against Japan, the U.S. will remain neutral 1 additional turn and will not interfere with Japanese aggression against UK and ANZAC in the Pacific since they are the “victim” nation. Fear of Communism fuels American pacifism and ties Roosevelt’s hands. The Japanese Ambassador exposes a (faked) “Caucasian” treaty between Russia, UK, and ANZAC dealing with the suppression and division of Japanese assets/territories.

If Japan conducts a DOW against Russia, the U.S. will remain neutral 1 less turn and they become a “friendly” power with the pacific allies, permitting the landing of US units on allied territories and providing sea units for a common defense until a formal DOW occurs between the US and Japan. These land and sea units upon meeting with allied forces/fleets change flags (I.E. swap US vessels/units with UK,China,USSR or ANZAC pieces) to maintain “neutrality”.

I do like the idea of refueling ships, but I would suggest that the US player be allowed to use unloaded transports as tankers, as this would represent the massive fleet train developed by the US to support the Pacific Fleet.  You could use that as a US National Advantage that would cost IPC to obtain.

I already add tanker in my house rules.
Tanker = 5 IPC. US, UK and Japan used tanker

On the european theatre of A&A the British start out with controll of the middle east and have the oil supply. The idea is that Germany has the option of buying oil from the allies for the amount of total value of the middle east this totals 8. The German player would give the allies 8ipcs to divide amongst themselves as they see fit. In return any moterized German units(Watercraft, Aircraft, and Armor) would be able to move one extra space for the next 3 rounds. At the end of the third round when Germanys buy/place units part of the turn comes up they are considered to have ran out of oil and have the option to refill for another 8ipcs. If at any point and time Germany holds the middle east oil supply, rules are as normal, allies can not purchase oil and no movment would be added to the allies vehicles.