One quick thought, in the old games it was usually USA that ended the game round, and the flow throughout the round showed more alternating by side (Allies then Axis, back to Allies and so on.) In G40 the game round concludes with Anzac, or I guess France, but there is this fairly long gap between Japan’s move and the end of the Game round, especially since Italy is such a non-entity in most games, and the American/British piggy back that happens before they even get to move. All that said, I wonder if “at the end of the game round” is even worthwhile anymore. It might be more fun, and more expedient for game resolution to just say if side such and such controls x, y, z “at any point.”
AA: Weather conditions
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After a while, my friends and I thought that the original AA became quite boring.
The same tactics were done over and over again, just because they were the best and only an extremely (un)lucky role on key-battles could shift the war in the Axis favor.In our opinion the dice rolls don’t introduce enough ‘randomness’ to the game.
That’s why I thought to introduce a pile of ‘weather’-cards which are effective during an entire round (USSR until US) and at the beginning of each round a new ‘weather’-card is turned.
We’re still in the process of testing (mainly how many cards of each type we should make), but at the moment we are quite satisfied with the extra bit of ‘randomness’ which forces a player to change tactics.
At the moment we have the following weather conditions:
1- Heavily clouded skies -> Effectiveness of air units is reduced: -1 on defense and offensive strength of air-units
2- Storm -> Effectiveness of naval units is reduced: -1 on movement
3- Extreme cold -> Effectiveness of tanks is reduced: -1 on movement
4- Clear skies -> Effectiveness of AA-guns is increased: air units are also gunned down at dice rolls 2
5- Normal weather -> No changesMy reasons for each weather effect:
1. in WW2 Air units flew mostly on visibility: Heavy clouds decrease visibility, so that it was harder to hit the target
2. naval units are slowed down by heavy storms
3. during the operation barbarossa, it was clear that many tanks had problems operating under extreme cold. Tracks/gears were frozen
4. air units are easier to see if the sky is clear, they would be sitting ducks for AA-guns
5. I assume that the standard rules were based on standard weather conditions, so normal weather doesn’t affect the unit statistics.Currently we are testing these weather types 1:1:1:1:3
Perhaps other players would like to test this idea as well, because it takes us a lot of time just to test it. (In my opinion we need many games of testing in order to get a good idea if these ‘weather conditions’ are balanced or not) -
do the card’s effect the entire map or specific region’s only?.
may i suggest using seperate deck’s of weather condition’s i.e. (storm’s, snow, cloudy skies, as you said)
tailored to specific region’s or groups of region’s, and sea zone’s,
then drawing a number of card’s each turn, and placing marker’s in the region’s to identify the weather condition’s.
this way you can draw multiple weather condition’s for multiple region’s on a single turn, and even have multiple weather in one region, causing major disruption. -
It seems to ‘tactical’ i would establish some cycle where combat in winter has various effects, than deal with “partly cloudy” results for Europe or the world in its entirety.
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You do not need cards just look at the overal forcast at that tiem and put it at those sections or roll “6” winter again
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