Oil Refinery

@franklin_cain Russia probably go hard at it. They kinda do for the spread of commiesm anyway. Not that those TTys provide it, there just in the way.

Don’t see anything wrong with it. Allies probably get it more than Axis. They and Russia are at a disadvantage oob anyway

This topic is very interesting. Mainly because the German “Wehrmacht” hat great difficulties with fuel shortages.
I would say, as long as you are not in control of at least one oil field your tanks can not “blitz” and aircraft can only fly defensive missions (or there should be a restriction how many spaces they can fly - for instance -1 for bombers and fighters)
There should be a rule which allows you to make a strategic bombardement of the oil fields.

That is a very interesting idea. I would like to hear more of it :)

will have these available soon.  Package of 6 Each.  Customize your board.

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Making oil barrels?

Why not just paint some capacitors?
That way, you can get them in any color and size you want, and they are really cheap :)

The oil concept seems cool will test it next time i have the chance….

1948 - Ghawar Field discovered in Saudi Arabia - the largest conventional oil field in the world (about 80 billion barrels)

1950 - Aramco agreement with Saudi Arabia

I like IL’s rules and I am going to use them with slight modifications.
Germany and Italy will use the oil fields of Romania. I also think that if they can trace a supply path to Venzuela, they would have oil.
Japan needs oil somewhere, give them oil from Russia and the us until certain times of the war , then when they are at war, they must have oil secured or serve penalties.
Penalities would be either moving only half their pieces they require fuel or make them all move a limited range.

@Imperious:

That game is near impossible to find.

I have the French and English versions. Maybe it wasn’t shipped over the Atlantic.

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