AARHE: Phase 3: Income

Losing a capital is no meaning in terms of continuing or not losing the war.

If London fell England would carry on in Canada/ India/ Austrailia

If Moscow fell Stalin would continue until his other major factories fell

If Berlin fell and Germany still had the Ruhr or large portions of territory they would still fight on.

In each case the major factor is the ability to fight the war… hence the factories ( e.g. factories)

a player does not lose the game if he has any factories still under his control. Once they are lost to the enemy he must sue for peace.

exceptions: Italy and France  If they lose capital they lose… thats because … well we wont go there… :wink:

When your “capital falls” you just lose use of a factory and the value of the territory. Otherwise you continue to perform all other duties on your turn.

exceptions: research ability is stopped cold ( no free rolls).

WE came up with the income idea at harris site in 2004. it is nothing new and its allready in the draft since day one.

1. That is a hard one… We were able to capture some German Jets towards the ends of the war… I assume that a lot of the research material was destroyed, but we could have figured it out… It all comes down to whether you want another die roll…
2. YES! You lose infrastructure…
3. Yes, assuming that Scientists are in exile…

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you don’t get to research
you enemy doesn’t gain your research capacity right?

++++ no they dont… perhaps they can gain a number of free rolls for tech… obviously in the allies case this evidence would have been destroyed… in Germanys case it doesnt matter because the game is over anyway if germans fall and or it gets destroyed

what about research progress
do you lose all boxes on uncompleted technologies?

++++ no they are assumed to be transferd to other territories… you play on as long as you got one factory

and technology transfer
does UK/US or Germany/Italy still get to transfer to or accept from a friendly without control of their capital ?

++++ allied tech transfer should be possible only if your partner has lost the game…

If the Soviets lost the game… any tech should be assumed to go to the allies on their next turn, while the enemy can obtain a number of free rolls based on your sucess while you were playing… thus if you were the soviets and were able to check off about 6 boxes then germany gets 6 free tech rolls on her next turn. ( this is an example of the idea… not the actual idea)

So now is your Factories your “Research Centers” or atleast the representation of them? Do you get higher rolls if you have more factories?

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Hmmm not considered, but it could work… each factory you own you get one free tech roll… nice idea!!!

Well, we make it represent some kind of “Military Infrastructure”, and whether that infrastructure is Technology or Factory, I think it should come into play, especially with your opinion on issue #2…

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oh yea forgot that your correct

Maybe if you loose a capital you can only build infantry up to the value of the land?  (Novosibirsk would allow you to build 2 infantry.  India 3, etc.)

Thats not realistic. Tank Factories dont stop churning out tanks of the capital falls. The raw materials dont come from the capital. The nations resolve to conclude peace or its ability to stop making military hardware are the crucial factors. Even the french fought with their own units as free french years after losing Paris. They even landed entire armored divisions ( primarilly outfitted from britian, but also helped from income from french colonies not axis occupied.

Yes that should be it as far as what happens.

Don’t make it convoy boxes, make it an offboard players aid… For Britain there is a African Convoy, Indian Convoy, Australian Convoy, and Canadian Convoy… Each of those have a starting place (India for the Indian Convoy, etc.), and a chit to track movement… The enemy has to search roll for them to attack…

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Yea that offboard thing is better… because it does not involve players to change their maps. Player aids are the way to go. WE only have to delininate the different oceans so that when you have a sub or ship then they can roll for the possibility of sinking “abstracted” ships in shipping lanes… so only the location need to be identified.

The Location is “known” (a chit represents its path, allowing players to cover them…).  Strays in shipping lanes rarely were hit, they usually traveled together to avoid that… After a Convoy reaches the Home Factory, it can cash in the IPC’s and is removed from the board, to be used later when they want to start a new shipment… This allows for several convoys to be shipping out at once, and since they all move in combat move it doesn’t complicate it anymore… The Convoy is now placed face up representing its arrival in port, and is considered unloading… The enemy still gets a chance to interdict, but now it is covered by CAP and AA Guns… That is my basic idea…

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