Axis & Allies Anniversary Edition Cold War/Modern Variant

IL made a variant like this for revised, but with A&A 50 i think we can make a better game without changing the map much, plus i dont think anyone played IL’s game

I have a lot of idea’s for a game like this, and since christmas break(sorry Holiday Break) started today, I have two weeks to playtest stuff

for starters I mainly want to know if their is any interest in this game
and if there is the first thing we would have to decide is the start date
1948? 1950? 1962? 1985? 1989? 1991? 2008? 2020? others?

anyways if no one is interested, i will just start posting my idea’s, which will be annoying because this topic will alwasy be the first topic and you will have to scroll down to click on the topics that interest you.

I have just finished watching Charlie Wilson’s War and HBO’s House of Saddam, so I was thinking it could be set in the 80’s but any post ww2 setting is good

also for a post cold war ( and probalby a cold war game) game we would have to think how alliances would work in this non-bipolar world

Here are my notes on a AA50 1985 game for who anyone wants to try and makes sense of them
I will try to get a setup and playtest soon, and make a more clear version of the rules
much of it is taken from IL’s AARME so he gets most of the credit
i want to combine some units and get rid of others to make it more simple, but its hard becasuce combat in this game should feel diffrent from world war 2

Axis and Allies 1985
Player Sequence

1. Soviet Union
2. France
3. China
4. United Kingdom
5. India
6. United States
   USSR receives 30 IPCs to be used as he wishes to save or place additional units. The US gets 20. China gets 20. India 10. France 10. Britain 5
   Units Cost Move Attack Defense
   Insurgents 2 1 0 1
   Regular Infantry 3 1 1 2
   Special Forces 5 2 3 2
   Mechanized Infantry 4 2 2 2
   Towed Artillery 4 2 2 2
   MLRS 9 2 5 4
   Tank 5 2 3 3
   Main Battle Tank 8 2 4 4
   Air Transport 8 6 1 1
   Fighter Aircraft 10 6 3 3
   Ground Attack Aircraft 8 4 4 2
   Strategic Bomber 12 10 4 1
   Stealth Bomber 15 12 3 2
   Carrier 14 2 2 4
   Cruiser 12 2 3 3
   Destroyer 8 2 2 2
   Attack Submarine 6 2 3 1
   Ballistic Missile Boat 8 1 2 1
   Transport 7 2 0 1

Strategic Units
Chemical Weapons 5 0 D6
Tactical nukes 8 2 D6
ICBMs 15 20 D6+2
Laser Shield 25 1 - D6
IC 15
AA 6 1 - 1
Anti-Ballistic missile System 10 2 2
Nuke silos 20 - - -

Special
Insurgents: can be built in occupied territories, but only one per territory a turn. Can hide in the occupied territory and cannot be attacked unless the controlling player agrees. They have a first strike of 1 or less and cannot be forced to come out of hiding.
Special Forces: can perform first strikes into other territories and can pick the target. They can also perform these strikes from subs, aircraft carries and air transports
MLRS: supports 2 infantry like artillery
Main Battle Tank: Can only produce 1 per IC. Takes 2 hits to kill
Air transport: can two infantry or another ground unit except for MBT and MLRS
Chemical Weapons: D6 enemy units may not attack this round of combat. Their bust be a friendly artillery, ground attack aircraft, or strategic bomber, for each of the D6 chemical attacks

Tech is just like AA50, cept there are four categories
Ground Tech
Self-Propelled Artillery: May build MLRS. Starts with it: US
Chobham armor: May build Main Battle Tanks Starts with it: US, USSR, UK, France
Special Forces: May build Special Forces: US, UK, USSR star with it

Naval Tech
Cruise Missiles: Cruiser and Destroyers can launch tac nukes:
Navy Seals: Submarine transport elite unit. Starts with it: US
Rapid Deployment Forces: Carries transport elite units. Starts with  it US
Nuclear powered Subs: subs move an additional 2 spaces: starts with it US, France, USSR, UK
Subs nuclear weapons: subs can launch 1 tac nuke. US, France, USSR, UK, China

Aerial Tech
Long Range Aircraft: all aircraft may move two additional spaces
Air Transport: may build air transports Starts with it US and USSR
Ground Attack Aircraft: may build GAA: US, USSR
Stealth Aircraft: may build stealth bomber Starts with it: US

Strategic Tech
Chemical Weapons: may build chemical weapons: US, USSR
Tactical nuclear weapons: may build tactical nukes Starts with it US, France, USSR, UK, China
ICBMs: may build ICBMs Starts with it: Us, USSR
Mobile missile silos: may launch nukes from MLRS
STAR WARS: may build laser shields

Scrambling fighter: fighter get one round of combat with aircraft flying overhead

Oil Centers: rules from AARME

Victory Points
Victory points cost 10 IPCs. Your forces can not be mobilized on a turn you purchase victory. You may not purchase more victory points a turn than victory cities you control. First to 30 victory points wins

Mobilizing Forces
All countries forces start not mobilized. Your forces are only mobilized if last turn you did not purchase any victory points. While demobilized all your forces defend at 1 and have a -1 modifier when they attack

MAD
If your total original territories IPC count is reduced to half you cannot win the game

New Territories
Draw blowup boxes for the new spaces
Germany: Divided into East and West Germany
Trans-Jordan: Divided into Syria and Iraq
India: divided into 3 Indian Territories and one territory for Pakistan
Manchuria:  divided into Manchuria, North Korea and South Korea

Starting Territories
USSR
1941
Plus
Finland
Czechoslovakia-Hungry
Bulgaria-Romania
Poland
East Germany
Mongolia
French Indo-China
Afghanistan
Syria
Mozambique
Angola
West Indies
Italian East Africa

France
France
Spain
North Western Europe
West Germany
Italy
Balkans
Norway
Turkey
Eire
Iceland
Greenland

UK
United Kingdom
Eastern Canada
Western Canada
Australia
Gibraltar
South Africa
New Zealand
Solomon Inlands
Rhodesia

China
1941
Plus
Kiangu
Manchuria
Kwangtung
Burma
Pakistan

India
3 Indian territories

US
1941
Plus
Formosa
Japan
South Korea
Saudi Arabia
Minus
Brazil
Mexico
Philippines

Other Politics

yah, with three diffrent idealogies competing for contol, that would be cool, but i was going for a game that was a little less black and white

leaders of arab countires are more often allied with western powers than with Islam, Russia and China are not on the best terms either, and in this game i am going to make it possible for Russia and China to have full scale war with each other. Also its not like the US, UK, and France are able to agree on eyerthing either. I think it is best if they are seperate powers.

sure their will still be too sides, NATO, headed by the US, and the Warsaw Pact, headed by the Soveits. but the alliances are not set.
In fact at the start of the game all countries should still be at peace. each power can either buy NATO or WARSAW Pact vicotry points with 10 IPCs, of course doing that lowers the effectiveness of their armies the next turn, and so should only do this when they are not expecting attack

THe US and USSR are the only countries that start out active, If  US/UK/France are attack all of those countries can become active, of course I am going to have diplomacy rolling that can weaken or change the NATO alliance

China, and India are different. You can gain control of them diplomaticly or you can attack them to makes them active. if you attack one, the other becomes contoled by your alliance

The diplomacy thing will be clearer later, I also might make diffrent national objectives for each contry so that when you have more than two players, diplomacy can be represented by people instead of dice rolls.