Before we get too far in the idea of what ship can do what, let’s look at what the actually piece in A&A represents.  The battleship piece represents a heavy surface fleet that contains mainly battleships and heavy cruisers.  It can take a hit and keep on dealing hits out.  The cruiser piece represents a lighter surface fleet consisting of heavy and light cruisers, and maybe even a battleship. Note, I did not say light surface fleet.  It is only lighter in comparison to a “battleship” piece but it is heavier than a destroyer piece. The destroyer piece represents a light surface fleet consisting of destroyers and light cruisers. It is more adept at seeking and destroying submarines than its counterparts.

Yes, it would be cool to have more specialization of units, but at the scale in which A&A represents, individual ship classes and abilities can not be represented.  A fleet is only as fast as its slowest unit.  On a scale such as A&A it doesn’t matter if I have a fast ship in my fleet if my slowest ship can’t keep up.  My personal opinion is the cruiser in A&A is a situational purchase.  I am not going to purchase it on a regular basis, but I may if the situation is right.

Stalingradski, I used your basic Germany blueprint in two games, and it worked brilliantly.  The Allies were never able to break down my Atlantic Wall and the Russians fell to the never-ending pressure.

In my current game where I am playing the Allies, my opponent has opted for an infantry/artillery strategy as the Germans.  It was a pretty menacing force, but eventually his main attack was ground down to just tanks. We are in turn 7, so we will see where this one ends up.  I foresee an Allied victory with the UK eventually grinding the German warmachin down with never-ending strategic bombing and relentless Russian pressure.

Oztea, your NA’s are great.  I would offer one tweak to the Long Lance Torpedo rule.  The type 93 Long Lance Torpedo was originally developed for destroyers and cruisers.  A few submarines later on used the type 95 LL torpedo.  Maybe the Long Lance Torpedo National Advantage should have destroyers use the first strike submarine rule when attacking and defending.

Did you scrape with a hobby knife and/or use sandpaper to remove the middle mold lines on some of the pieces?  I haven’t seen a middle line on any of your pieces.  They look great, by the way, and are an inspiration to a lot of us!

We also need to remember that a single battleship piece does not represent a single ship, but a group of ships primarily composed of battleships.

Thanks for the quick reply!

Does this include any of the optional national rules?  I poked around at it before and didn’t see an option to make any changes to units or rules.

Hey all, this is the first time I have posted on the forum.  Just a little about myself: I started playing A&A just over 10 years ago.  This past year, a friend of mine told me about A&A Revised.  A group of us used to play all the time back in college, but since then, we have only gotten together once to play (we live approx 5 hours from each other).  Is there an A&A revised version to play on the computer?  We would like a game we could play against each other as a group over the computer.  Thanks for any help!