Unit Cost

I’ll do whatever I can to get rid of the cardboard pieces.

I know Xeno is a bad word around here but, didn’t they have a game with two sizes of ICs? If so we could scavenge those for major/minor purposes. Just trying to help the “I hate cardboard” crowd that seems to be growing.

The War Game has major and minor factories and they sell pieces separately from the game.

If you like German pieces that are too large for AA, then yes.

It’s better than cardboard and the pieces are not that much bigger.

(Rank = 86)

Can someone please tell me why exactly do we have the funny rules for tactical bombers?

why can’t it just be a 4/3/4/11 unit, instead of a 3/3/4/11 unit that sometimes becomes 4 attack?

this stops me from having a carrier with 2 tactical bombers,
this stops me from using it to attack when i don’t have the tank to go with it
and yet i paid 1 more for it than for a fighter… a fighter that always have 4 defense, regardless if what it is “paired” with

once again… making the game more defensive in nature than it needs to be

Bombers has still 6 move and make SBRs … a 4-3-4-11 tactical would not be bad or a 3-3-5-11 or the current tactical with some SBR ability or at least give some bonus to the attacking tank…

Thanks Brain! Those are the ones I was thinking of! Maybe… Can we buy just the ICs from them?

I agree, tac bombers seem to be a nitch unit, something we have alot of now in the new game.  Every unit before had a broad purpose that nothing really interfered with.  Inf, the defense monster and fodder, art, lots of punch for your buck, etc.  Now I can see absolutely no reason to purchase a tac bomber, just use the ones I start with.  Even with the boost going from a 3 to a 4 isn’t as huge as say, art making inf go from a 1 to a 2.  With art, inf will get double the hits they normally would, a tac bomber with boost will only increase the odds of it getting a hit by about 16%.  I also wonder why battleship costs haven’t gone down with the increased difficulty in repairing them.  Now we will have tac bombers, armor, cruisers, subs, and probably battleships built very rarely.  I love the new units and ideas, just wish they all had a larger role to play.

I have heard people say they use major and minor IC’s in house rules. They just use 2 IC’s (maybe glue together) for major, and 1 IC for minor. We all have extra pieces to do it.