New Axis & Allies Varient

I am planning to creat a board game using Axis & Allies type rules, but instead of using locked Alliences it would be a free for all game like Risk. It would be set in the modern era with todays most powerfull countries fightring for global supremance. I was thinking the European Union could count as a country for game purposes. I was thinking the economy rules could be just as they are in A&A, but the political and milatary aspects of the game should be deeper(ecpseiacly the politics part). Even though it is a game of global conquest it should still have a realistic feel to it, the milatary units should share the same streagths and weaknesses as they do in real life, you shouldn’t be able to get away with nuking a country that did not want to give you 3 IPCs that turn even when sayed please.

Here are the major powers I was thinking of
Almost positive will be in the game
United States
China
India
Russia

Maybes
European Union
Japan
Brazil
Middle Eastern Coaltion( Really not sure about this one)

Well, tell be what you think. what countries should be playable and wich ones should not, make up rules for units , post info on rule world politcs, anything that can push this game along, I’m really relying on you to help me finish this game. Any questions, post them too.

2010, 2020 some time in the near future

Interesting, I like it, could you come up with other satilite states for other nations, or maybe the US player good be a super power and the game could be designed so the US purposly has an advantage over the other nations. Of course other players resentment of the US player having more would likly lead to alliences against the US. Then the game would naturally balence out.

I conda like this idea of one player having an unfair “advatage” at the begining of the game. What do you think?

You both bring up good points, but what i think it comes down to is what type of game it’s going to be. And sense its partially a diplomacy game choosing sides in a global conflict should represented in the game. I think I’ll make Brazil a player nation and make the rest of south America neutral regions that will either submit to players though force or peaceful means like in the game War! Age of Imperialism by Eagle games.
Player Nations and why they are player nations
United States: Greatest Country ever, duh?
China: Growing economy, huge army, huge country, huge population
Russia: Actually this country lacks everything I require for a country to be a player nation. And it wouldn’t a player nations unless it wasn’t the biggest country in the world. It is just to much space for a single Neutral Nation
European Union: Although the dream of a Unified Europe travels farther away each day it would be to complicated to split Europe up amongst its many powerful nations.
India: It has the army, the nukes, the population, the land, the economy, etc., Why not.
Brazil: mentioned above.
Japan: although small, very powerfull and a much needed counter balance to China in the south pacific.

Why no Mid East Coalition?: Its to unrealistic and out there. Osamas dreams of a New Muslim Caliphate are far from materializing. I think in this game The mideast and Africa should be a huge battle ground for the player-nations to fight over and claim satellite states.

PS: Remember the player nations can and will change over the course of making this game. If you disagree with this selection of nations please say why.

I’d like to hear what you guys think of military units in modern warfare and which ones should be represented in the game.

@Imperious:

United States: Greatest Country ever, duh?
US should include at the very least : Canada, Japan, South Korea and UK

China: Growing economy, huge army, huge country, huge population
China includes Vietnam, North Korea, and Mongolia

Russia: Actually this country lacks everything I require for a country to be a player nation. And it wouldn’t a player nations unless it wasn’t the biggest country in the world. It is just to much space for a single Neutral Nation
Russia includes all affiliate nations and some eastern bloc nations.

European Union: Although the dream of a Unified Europe travels farther away each day it would be to complicated to split Europe up amongst its many powerful nations.
Germany, Spain, central Europe, poland, Italy,Austria… France is on its own or aligned with them. this coalition is very volital because France cant make up its mind from one day to the next. I would consider a large seperate map for Europe for warfare in these nations because you would want to have more global territories.

India: It has the army, the nukes, the population, the land, the economy, etc., Why not.
On its own they hate China and Pakistan but are not aggressive

Brazil: mentioned above.
All south America is open to either independent or allies of USA… the US player has best chance to convert them.

Japan: although small, very powerfull and a much needed counter balance to China in the south pacific.
Their existence depends on USA the threat of China pushes them as US ally. japan has no natural ally in Asia anymore. At least until China is destroyed…

best book on this… but its 1985 when the war starts. This book is complete with OOB for both sides. You may want to get SPI’s third world war which has a rather good game. its a good starting point for research. The problem is too far in the future had no adeduate research and secondly, the viability of such a conflict is very speculative. At least a 1985 scenario has a complete Soviet Union and other realistic allies and enemies.
Also note you can obtain nice plastic pieces for this game that are cold war styles of equipment from table tactics. Not to mention the other companies that offer pieces of current and past tanks and planes.
The Third World War, August 1985, by General Sir John Hackett, set in a 1980s war based on the NATO scenario

What od you think about milatary units in the game

2025, d12

thx

OK, fine, what military units would be in a d12 2006 game

thanks a lot
I’ll start working on the rules and OOB
I think each unit should represent a corp
How about you guys!