National Morale can also have major impact.
If Germany > 110% they're getting a big bonus. (like +10%)
If USSR < 75%, they're taking a hit (like -20%).

That can make for a significant delta in the calculations.

New ELO game begins:

Feinder (Axis) vs Pekkavilamoura (Allies)

We are using the following house rules:

1. No diplo on Majors
2. No Barbarossa before 1941
3. No diplo on Bulgaria
4. No Allied DoW on Japan before PH
5. No diplo on DEI (Dutch East Indies)
6. No Italian navy outside Med before DoW
7 ...

These seem to be the usual house rules (or probably in the works, might as well adopt them):

1. No diplo on Majors
2. No Barbarossa before 1941
3. No diplo on Bulgaria
4. No Allied DoW on Japan before PH
5. No diplo on DEI (Dutch East Indies)
6. No Italian navy outside Med before DoW
7. No ...

ELO game result:

Feinder (Axis) defeats Boudi (Allies), Feb '43 Allies resign.

Excellent and responsive game by Boudi (thank you!).

If I had to assess, Germany was able to continue it's drive in N Africa, and arrived in time and strength to relieve Iraq.
In this way, the Persia did not get ...

Hubert, sent you a private message.

New ELO game begins:

Feinder (Axis) vs boudi (Allies)

Usual ELO rules apply.

FWIW - I usu wrap up my work day, and can do turns starting about 6pm Eastern time, doing turns until Midnight Eastern (Midnight until Noon, your time I think). Sometimes I'm able to do a turn before I start work, but that's iffy. Weekends are more open.

Does this also mean that you cannot put land units on Transports to reinforce Abyssinia?
You can, it's just warships that are forbidden. But there is a fairplay rule, don't use the italian transport ships in order to scoot. They have to go to italian east africa directly.
However, the rules do not ...

Awesome.

I'm fine with all of those, just two clarifications -

"2. No Barbarossa before 1941":
To confirm that, Axis may DoW Soviet Union, any time after 1941-01-01?

"6. No Italian navy outside Med before DoW":
Does this also mean that you cannot put land units on Transports to reinforce ...

Ok. Looking for a new/1st ELO game.
I suppose I'm "unranked". Not really sure if I'm any good at PBEM (having only played 3-4 players).

I'm available to play/start as either Axis or Allies, and offer the reciprocal game.
I can usually do one turn a night.
Are there "standard" House Rules? Like no ...

What does "ELO" mean? Is that a mod?

It appears to be responding "normally" now.

Thank you to whomever flogged the little Gnomes in charge of logins!

Trying to connect to the PBEM server. It's spinning... and spinning... and spinning... Also reported by my opponent.

I'm interested. Message sent. Let me know if interested.

- WiTP is mostly spreadsheet warfare, but I'm seeing more icon based combat? How does combat work with stacking? Is it more WitP: AE or more Panzer Korps?
Given that I own Witp-AE, SC-WitP, and Panzer Corps 2...
SC-WW2-WitP is much more Panzer Corps. Strat Cmd series is much more beer-n-pretzels ...

I can't recall the exact quote, but in "Forgotten Fleet" (book about Royal Navy in the pacific), a sailor on the HMS Illustrious remarked...

"When the Kamikazes were out, the US Carries hauled out the fire houses. We hauled out the mops."

Interesting ref link with info on Kamikazes vs. Carriers ...

One last thing...

If in the scenario editor, you pull up an existing unit that is already deployed at sea in a AV, what does it look like?
Can you essentially copy it, and then save to another location, and a unit name like "BadGuy1", "BadGuy2"... Or whatever.

Just a thot.
"Programmers code ...

I presume that you've already tried just setting the starting location hex of the unit (and just putting it in the ocean, and see what happens.. :) )

I hate to send you in the wrong direction (again, not a modder). But in a former life, i was a coder, and what can I see of the game architecture ...

I'm not really a modder, mostly just poked at the scripts. But...

Your issue with the number of at-sea invasion TFs, could be related to the tech-level/constraint for Amphibious Transports. The tech level for Amphib Invasion, directly relates/constrains the number of AVs available to you. Japan is ...

I can see how the narrow spit of land, might easily be not-seen (and then to reasonably assume there to be a corner there). If you simply changed the visual representation of the hex, so that the coastal hex had more "land" behind it (ie made it more obvious to be a land connector), there would be ...