ps. As far as splitting the US economy Pacific/Atlantic, wouldn’t this create the same kind of weirdness that we’re trying to eliminate with UK? I wonder if there are other approaches we could take?
I might be a fan for example, if we want the USA to play a split theater game, to do this with starting units already in position. Or perhaps through purchasing as a special “bonus” (rather than as a spending restriction.) Just as an example, if the Americans received a special Naval War Chest, dedicated to each theater or operation, something like +20 ipcs Pacific but that can only be spent on ships, +20 ipcs Atlantic that can only be spent on ships and tie that to a national objective. Call it “Liberty ships” and just be done with it.
Really the only units that tie you to a theater as the Americans are the naval units, everything else can be shifted rapidly shifted around. Even naval units can be shifted quite fast, but at least by having a cap in place and approaching it as a kind of bonus rather than core income, and I think players might adapt to the split theater game.
Use it as a way to put some a midway point between potential Axis navies and US navies.
This way instead of collecting or purchasing for two economies, its just like “here’s a 20 for your Pacific ships” and “Here’s another 20 for your Atlantic ships.” Pretty easy to count, like a flat rate bonus attached to some high value target. Like for Allied control of Hawaii and Midway hehe. That’d give Japan some reason to move forward.
Could do the same on the Atlantic side, I don’t know with Iceland maybe? Or you could make it more of an aspirational Objective. if Americans control some target territory, like Morocco hehe.
Maybe 20 is too high? What about 10? You know you give +10 ipcs in Ships in that theater, for doing whatever main thing we want them to do. Like battle over some pacific islands, or invade islands around North Africa/Med.
The exact amount doesn’t matter really, but the idea is that it has to be spent on ships. And then you attach the money to specific islands, naval bases, or coastal factory territories to put them in play.
The USA already collects a lot of loot OOB in normal Objective/At War Bonuses, (as pointed out by others here), but instead of giving them bonuses for holding their core territories, we should give them bonuses for holding the peripheral territories.
Make these high prestige high value objective bonuses, with the caveat that the money has to be sunk into the Liberty ships. Ships like a new suped up cruiser.
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It seems easy enough if its just being approached like a rule. USA has to do “such and such” related to the map split. You could just tweak the average income directly through the bonus and say its gotta be used for a navy, or the bonus won’t apply. Then players will have every reason to build ships in both theater.
