Really good idea for AARHE leaders?

This was offered as a really original idea by Adlertag ad HGD:

Commander as new unit

Hi Larry

Guess what man, I have playtestet the new Leader-unit. Now each nation should have 5 leaders each. One admiral, three generals and one air-marshall, all in nation specific plastic.

Leaders work like this:

If you attack with 5 inf and 2 tanks and a bomber the traditional way, first you roll 5 dice for inf and look for 1’s. Then you roll 2 dice for tanks and look for 3’s and at last one die and look for a 4.

Now if a Commander was in charge of this attack, you would roll all the 8 dice at once, and assign the 1’s to the infantry and the 2’s and 3’s to the tanks and one 4 or less for the bomber. Now this combat system will statistically favour the force that have a Commander, but not so much that it will break the game.

And the rational behind the idea, is that a competent and skilled Commander will coordinate the effort of the different weapons. The force of infantry, artillery, tanks and aircrafts will act as Combined Arms.

And of course the same system goes for naval units too. If a fleet of destroyers and cruisers and battleships are led by a skilled Commander, you roll all the dice in one big roll and assign the lower dice to destroyers and the higest dice to battleships and so on.

Maybe UK start the game with 2 admirals and 1 general, Germany start with 3 generals, 1 air marshall and 1 admiral, and Russia with 1 general. Then you have to develope new Commanders the same way you develope new weapons.

Yea but remember its just one event per turn… perhaps with your idea you have a deck of different leaders ( which we have in AARHE) but we use this new benefit, but only for either land, sea or air so it will promote different purchases to use this benefit more.

example:  Germany could have: Herman Goering, Admiral Erich Raeder, and Von Manstein…

each German turn he must select only one and he cant use the same one until all the others have been used. the only thing he can control is what order he wishes to use leaders…

next he decides to bring out Herman Goering…

Example: Herman can send his planes over to any enemy territory and attack planes only, rolling everything together, so lets say he sends 3 fighters and 2 bombers and rolls: 3,4,1,4 which means he has 4 hits and hits go against enemy air units

Or Manstein is on defense and rolls a bunch of dice using all the units able to choose which hits rolled are from which units and this would minimize his exposure to the enemy, Also the card is played the moment the enemy attacks, so he may be making a big mistake… which is fun.

I like it. japan suddenly makes a big break into moscow only to discover his 23 infantry will be defending on 3’s or something.

NO nothing of the sort….for infantry they still defend at 1-2, but the beauty of this ( brilliance actually) is that it promotes buying armor because they hit on 3 so when you roll out say you have 5 infantry and 5 tanks and roll:

2,1,3,3,4,3,4,3,2,6 with your leader, you got 7 hits but in the same example and rolls if you got 10 infantry you only got 3 hits!!!

thats what makes the idea brilliant, because it leads to less infantry stacks…

I think this is one of the best ideas to come for about a year…

Yes i have these… they are perfect… goto ebay.de and the huns will sell you all you need.

I think these leaders need to be on cards and limited to X amount of units.

Also, look at AARHE leader cards, i think that list is more complete. Admiral Lutjens was killed in his Bismarck before the game even starts. I have that movie so i know.  :roll:

Admiral Raeder is better he can influence U-boat tactics

Germans need Kesselring too.

Now relax and check out the new game i have cannabilized like a good hun for my own purposes. I just bought 4 copies of this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIdugUnp6i4