First off it seems like paratroopers are a bit too cheap, powerful, and easy to use. I can buy six or eight paratrooper units and drop them all the same turn. For example, as Russia, I delayed my war against Finland to the spring. I declared war, dropped a paratrooper unit on every unoccupied city, took them all, and surrounded and besieged Helinski with paratroopers, which immediately surrendered. Then it was a couple turns for my Leningrad strike for to take Nyborg and Finland was annexed. A couple months later I had redeployed them, declared war on Persia, and on the first turn took all the open victory cities with paratroopers as well as completely surrounding and besieging Tehran which fell quickly. Then it took just a couple turns for my main forces to take the last garrisoned VP city and Iran surrendered. If it hadn't joined the Axis I was about to rinse and repeat on Romania.
In my current game as Germany I did similar fun stuff with Sealion. In February(!) I dropped all over the place in Britain. I took ungarrisoned Norwich and Manchester, as well as grabbing all the industry across Wales and the Midlands. I didn't intend for these guys to survive until Sealion launched in the spring (although they largely did), but just to deny all that production at a critical time. (Perhaps the British AI should make a point of ALWAYS keeping a cheapy 6pp division in every city and on all their resources in range of a paradrop? Similarly, I suppose the Russian AI should do the same. You should only really be grabbing cities for 'free' from minors, IMHO.)
I guess I'd increase the cost of airbone units a touch, and disallow you from beseiging with paratroopers. I'd also require you to purchase Airborne Transport Capacity. Why is this free? We have to pay for sea transport and strategic transport, but I could drop conceiveably drop fifteen, twenty, even thirty paratroopers in a single turn, wreaking havoc, blocking supply, preventing retreats. Not cost effective, maybe, at that scale, but right now they're just too good/easy to use.
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I conquered Britain and offered them peace, and was surprised at the result. I got to keep Cornwall and Edinburgh, while they kept Egypt, Malta, and Gibralter. Also Iraq remained at war with me as the bold, sole member of the allies (lol). This seems a bit off to me. Anyone else have thoughts on what should happen on a British surrender? It seems far more plausible to me that something like this should happen:
1.) All Axis units vacate England/Wales/Scotland. No weird little German occupied enclaves.
2.) Northern Ireland is ceded to Ireland. Ireland becomes either an Axis minor or strongly pro-Axis.
3.) Gibralter is ceded to Spain and Spain joins the Axis/becomes much more strongly in favor of the Axis.
4.) Malta and Egypt are ceded to Italy if Italy is part of the Axis. Otherwise only Malta is ceded, and Egypt becomes a pro-axis/neutral minor.
5.) Iraq becomes a neutral minor or pro-Axis minor and peaces out if at war with the Axis.
6.) Certain colonies lost in WW1 are ceded to Germany. Germany gets a small 'Colonial Income' PP bonus every turn. This can be blocked by allied/American units in the Atlantic the same way Axis units block British convoys.
It might even be fun to give the victorious Germans some fun multiple choice events to 'dictate the peace'. For example you could have an events like:
Determine the fate of Gibraltar:
Now that Great Britain has asked for terms we can finally humiliate them the way we were humiliated at Versailles! How should we dispose of Gibraltar, the gateway to the Mediterranean?
1.) Give it to the Spanish.
Cede Gibraltar to Spain. Small drop to Italian war economy.
2.) Give it to the Spanish... if they agree to join the Axis.
Cede Gibraltar to Spain. Spain gets event allowing them to chose to join Axis or refuse the gift. Small drop to Italian war economy.
3.) Give it to Italy
Cede Gibraltar to Italy. Small bonus to Italian war economy.
4.) It is all for the Reich! Keep it for Germany!
Cede Gibraltar to Germany. Big drop in Spanish pro-Axis level, small drop to Italian war economy.
Determine the fate of Egypt:
With the surrender of Great Britain, the ancient land of the Pharaohs has fallen under the German thumb. What should we do with this rich prize?
1.) Give it to the Italians.
Cede Egypt to Italy. Small boost to Italian war economy.
2.) Make it a German colony.
Cede Egypt to Germany. Moderate penalty to Italian war economy (Hitler has betrayed us!)
3.) Make it an independent nation.
[/i]Egypt becomes pro-Axis minor. American war entry drops a bit, as Germany is being less 'expansionistic'.[/i]
Anyway, just some thoughts.
