NEW BREAKTHROUGH CHARTS

This topic is about to collect all good ideas about techs. I will update and expand this list according to any good ideas!

BREAKTHROUGH CHART LAND & ECONOMIC - Defensive

1. Heavy Artillery NEW
Your artillery defends on a 3 or less.

2. Heavy Tanks NEW
Every third tank you have in each combat cycle, attack or defend on a 4.

3. War Economy
During your Collect Income phase, roll one die and collect that many additional IPC’s.

4. Military Conscription NEW
During your Mobilize New Units phase, you place one of your infantry for free in addition to the group of units you just purchased. This infantry unit may be placed in any territory you have controlled since the start of your turn.

5. Radar
Your antiaircraft guns hit air units on a roll of 2 or less.

BREAKTHROUGH CHART  AIR UNITS

1. Paratroopers
Each of your bombers can act as a transport for one infantry, but it must stop in the first hostile territory it enters, ending its combat movement. Both units must begin their movement in the same territory. The infantry is dropped after any antiaircraft fire is resolved, so if the bomber is hit, the infantry it carries is also destroyed. The bomber may still attack during the Conduct Combat phase, but it cannot make a strategic bombing run in a turn that it transports an infantry unit. The infantry unit may retreat normally to a friendly adjacent space during combat.

2. Jet Fighters NEW
Your fighters are now immune to aniaircraft fire and fire in the opening fire step, whether on attack or defense. Any casualties are destroyed and removed from play, with no chance to counterattack.

3. Long-Range Aircraft
Your fighters are now long-range fighters, and your bombers are now long-range bombers. Your fighters’ and bombers’ range increases to 6 and 8 respectively.

4. Heavy Bombers
Your bombers are now heavy bombers. You roll two dice for each bomber when you attack or make a strategic bombing raid. On defense, your bombers still roll only a single die.

5. Rockets
Your antiaircraft guns are now rocket launchers. In addition to its normal combat function, during the strategic bombing raid step of your Conduct Combat phase, each of your antiaircraft guns can make a single rocket attack against an enemy industrial complex within 3 spaces of it. In each turn, only one antiaircraft gun per territory may launch rockets, and each industrial complex can be attacked by only one rocket launcher.This attack does 1d6 damage to that complex.

BREAKTHROUGH CHART SEA UNITS

1. Super Submarines
Your submarines are now super submarines. The attack value of your submarines is now 3 instead of 2. The defense value of your submarines remains at 1.

2. Anti-Submarine Warfare NEW
Your aircraft may now attack enemy submarines and cancels the Surprise Strike of enemy submarines.

3. Improved Shipyards
Your sea units are now cheaper to build. Cost reductions are just like the box rules.

4. Super Carriers NEW
Your aircraft carriers are now super carriers. They can carry up to three fighters and requires two hits to destroy, just like battleships.

5. Fast Capital Ships NEW
Your aircraft carriers and cruisers are now faster and have a move of 3.

@Imperious:

Super Carriers
Your aircraft carriers are now super carriers and requires two hits to destroy, just like battleships.They also can now carry 3 fighters.

id make this change on these.

Done, and you are so right. If you are going to use a lot of carriers, this can now be worth researching. However this tech is generally not worth pursuing if you don’t already have at least three carriers and want a better alternative to buy another two. A fully loaded carrier cost 34 IPCs about the same as one would need to spend on average (30 IPCs) to develop supercarriers. Remember that a two hit supercarrier and three fighters is more versatile than a carrier and two fighters due to its the ability to hit ground targets with the fighters and soak up hits with the hull of the supercarrier.

However I do also think that supercarriers should be able to roll two dice each in defens and attack, see stats below. A fourth supercarrier will definitely make supercarriers worth pursuing. Supercarriers along with a destroyer will be the ultimate naval defense. The cost of supercarrier tech (about 30 IPCs) plus one destroyer (8 IPCs) plus three fighters (30 IPCs), if one already has three fully loaded carriers, is the same as the cost for two new fully loaded regular carriers (28+40 IPCs).

Loaded Carrier (regular)

5 CA + 10 FTR (14 IPCs/CA & 10 IPCs/FTR)

Cost: 514+ 1010 = 160 IPCs
Att: 15+310 = 35
Def: 25+410 = 50
Hits = 15

Loaded Super Carrier (regular)
3 CA + 9 FTR (14 IPCs/CA & 10 IPCs/FTR)

Cost: 30+314+910 = 162 IPCs (extra cost of 30 for R&D + 30 IPCs for 3 FTR if one already have 3 CA)
Att: 132+39 = 33
Def: 232+49 = 48
Hits = 15 (3 “soak up” hits)

What about this one?

Superior Capital Ships
Your aircraft carriers and cruisers are now upgraded. Your aircraft carriers requires two hits to destroy, and your cruisers defend and attack on a 4.

or this one?

Fast Capital Ships
Your aircraft carriers and cruisers range increases to 3. When a destroyer move along with an aircraft carrier, the destroyer’s movement is also increased to 3. This pairing is on a one-to-one basis. The destroyer and the aircraft carrier unit must leave from and end up in the same sea zone.

@Emperor_Taiki:

6. Heavy Armor
Tanks defend at four

6. Dive Bombers
On a roll of 1, Fighters chooses what opposing unit is taken as a causaulty

Well, I don’t like Dive Bombers at all. However Heavy Armor is more historical correct than Mechanized Infantry as a development, but Heavy Armor is a game breaker with a defence roll of 4 or less. A 4 in defense make amor a better piece than infantry in every aspect, armor will simply dominate infantry. That is why I prefer Mech Inf.

When it comes to your number “6”. I deliberately left this number because I want the player to choose any technology/development of her/his choice on a roll of 6, from the prespecified breakthrough chart.

@Gargantua:

You guys think that stuff is cool?  I created an Empire builders version…

… But anyways.  I thought I would share a few of the Excellent techs/abilites we developed.

Thank you, but no thank you! Too much ganja  :mrgreen: in those techs, hence no reality and game balance. Not cool enough for me. Come up with a balanced and historical tech for navy and I will be very  :-D

@Imperious:

…I might make this move 3 cruiser under the Battlecruisers tech because these also represent pocket battleships which would appear out of nowhere, sink a lonely ship and then hide before a cruiser group could catch it. I would not make the BC a 4 attack unit.

The battlecruiser is a ship as large as a battleship, with the big guns of a battleship, and the sea speed of the fleetest cruiser, but with considerably less armor than a battleship. They were to revolutionize cruiser design. After this new type of capital ship came into service all previous armored cruisers were instantly obsolete.

They would scout for the battle fleet (in which role they could brush aside the armored cruisers that the enemy customarily deployed to foil such scouts), they could equally prevent enemy scout cruisers from approaching the battle fleet. They could chase and dispatch “cripples” after a battle. They would also be tremendously useful in running down and destroying enemy commerce raiders on the high seas.

From the beginning, battlecruisers had their detractors. They were criticized for being too big, too expensive, and too lightly armored. They were called “white elephants” and “deviates”. But when the Germans, and later the Japanese, started laying down improved (and much better protected) versions in response to the British battlecruisers, the type was clearly here to stay. Except for the pure battlecruiser there are other battlecruiser-style ships, sometimes called “super cruisers,” “large cruisers” or “pocket battleships”.

The first battlecruisers (the Invincibles) were contemporary to the Dreadnought, the first modern battleship; the last battlecruisers (the Alaskas) were contemporaries of the last battleships, the Iowas. As the improved battlecruisers got bigger and better protected, the improved Dreadnoughts got bigger and faster, until finally the two types merged into the third generation fast battleships of World War II. Ships so large that they could combine the heavy armor of battleships, and the speed of battlecruisers, in the same hull.

So Impy, why not attack and defend on 4 as well as as a move of 3. What is your suggestion to make battlecruisers worth pursuing?

One variant of Fast Capital Ships that would be historical correct is:

Fast Capital Ships
Your aircraft carriers, cruisers and battleships are now faster and have a move of 3.

This might be a better tech than Battlecruisers, what do you think?

Battlecruisers
Your cruisers are now battlecruisers. Your cruisers defend and attack on a 4. They also have a move of 3.

@WILD:

I would like to see some kind of AA ability for the three capital ships. Only one would get a shot @ 1 per sz (fleet), similar to AA guns.

I had a tech named Naval Antiair before a so callad AA Cruiser with a AA ability, but it is simply not worth persuing. Remeber that it costs 30 IPCs to develop a tech on average! I would take one BB and a FTR for those IPCs any time. More over in World War II, pure naval firepower didn’t mean a thing unless one have the planes to back it up. Surface ships without air protection were simply vulnerable to air attacks. The Japanese gave a very convincing demonstration of this early in the war, sinking two armored British warships (Repulse and Prince of Wales). And unlike Pearl Harbor, The British ships were at sea and underway, capable of maneuver and prepared for air defense. And yet they were sunk … quickly.

I think about a variant of ASW (anti-submarine warfare) for planes as the fifth naval tech.

Anti-Submarine Warfare
Your aircraft may now attack enemy submarines and cancels the Surprise Strike of enemy submarines.

@Imperious:

Anti-Submarine Warfare NEW
Your aircraft may now attack enemy submarines and cancels the Surprise Strike of enemy submarines.

i would add that cruisers are ASW units as well. Also the ASW units only cancel out the subs first strike at a 1:1 basis.

I am not in favor of ‘fast battleships’ , but only cruisers and carriers. Leave DD and BB as 2 movers.

Ok, I will think about the addion of cruisers for the ASW. It might be good. But your comment on BBs for Fast Capital Ships is worthless if you don´t give a good argument for your stand point. I did gave a strong reson to why BBs should be included i the text above, for historical resons! Moreover it is a more balanced tech if one can bring in BBs to soak up hits.

@Imperious:

…ok make it a 4-3 unit because the armor we still like a cruiser…not a 4-4 unit, but a 4-3 unit moving 3.

Also, allow it to use any remaining movement points it has left after combat to move the balance after combat…to simulate the idea that it gets away after it sinks…

example: the BC moves one space and sinks a cruiser, then moves 2 more spaces in NCM away to avoid getting attacked by the enemy …this make is a good surface raider.

I don´t like the 4-3 idea because it still only takes a singel hit to destroy a cruiser and the tech will hardly be worth persuing at 4-3. Bottomline is that your idea is not balanced, do the math. However I like your idea of special movement in NCM. How about this variant:

Battlecruisers
Your cruisers are now battlecruisers. Your cruisers defend and attack on a 4. If your attacking forces destroy all defending units in a territory in one cycle of combat, any of your surviving cruisers in the attacking forces may move 1 territory during the noncombat move phase.

However I still like the tech Fast Capital Ships more than Battlecruisers!  :wink: