News From the Front - 4 player game

[Orm]

Starting a new 4-player game. Here are the optional rules. Please check that I added the correct optionals.

[Orm]

House rules in play. Please check these as well.

* Japanese - Soviet pact signed in 1939. No markers.

* Only strategic bombing allowed as a night mission (all other missions must be performed by day).

* CAP only allowed if declared in advance that CAP might be needed in an specified upcoming step. Should be used sparingly.

* Limited Chinese actions
Description:
Nationalist China can only choose take land impulse after Japan has done any one of below:
- Made a land attack on any Chinese (Both nationalist and communist) unit during the current turn or the previous turn.
- Has taken control of any Chinese (Both nationalist and communist) controlled hex during the previous impulse.

[Orm]

Thee Swedes play the Allies against the famous Warspite1 who has generously agreed to take on the Axis empires.

[Orm]

I begin playing as USA and CW. This might change if France falls.

[Orm]

US scraps several TRS, and some land and air.

[Orm]

The US setup is fairly standard and isn't really worth mentioning at this stage.

[brian brian]

I liked the HQ Movement optional. Really forces the players to think an impulse or two ahead, and consider their 'axis of advance', etc., I thought a little more like historical commanders would have to do. HQ-As zipping all over the place like orderlies carrying dispatches in a jeep doesn't always have the right 'feel', for me. Also gave more of a 5th Edition feel, before HQ-A counters existed. Then games were less likely to see-saw from Poland to the Urals and back again.

But so few people were willing to use that optional that it was cut completely from the newest rules. I would say that using HQ Movement and Railway Movement Bonus at the same time feels a little conflicting. Nevertheless, it will be interesting to see how the HQs get ordered around, in certain campaigns/theaters at least. Doesn't make all that much difference in France, I think.

[Courtenay]

The title says 4 player game. Is warspite two players, or is there another Axis player?

[warspite1]

ORIGINAL: Courtenay

The title says 4 player game. Is warspite two players, or is there another Axis player?

warspite1

No - three Allied vs l'il old me.

[Orm]

ORIGINAL: Courtenay

The title says 4 player game. Is warspite two players, or is there another Axis player?

No, warspite1 takes on all three Axis empires. There are three Allied players. Me and peskpesk have recruited an old friend who join us as France.

CW + France -> Orm
USSR + China -> peskpesk
France -> GeneralAdvance
Germany + Italy + Japan -> warspite1

Our friend hasn't played MWIF at all and haven't played WIF for more than 20 years (or so I think anyway) and wanted to take on France as a challenge. After the fall of France we will reshuffle the Allied nations so that he will take over one of the other Allied major powers, and the CW, or US, player will take over Free France.

Edit: Late as usual. [:)]

Edit 2: Added GeneralAdvance as the French player.

[Orm]

ORIGINAL: warspite1

ORIGINAL: Courtenay

The title says 4 player game. Is warspite two players, or is there another Axis player?

warspite1

No - three Allied vs l'il old me.

Indeed. And it is not fair. We are still outnumbered by the British horde. [;)] [:D]

[peskpesk]

The USSR scraps some units

[peskpesk]

The Western army is setup on the Rumanian border

[peskpesk]

The Siberians are heading west. Note: there is a Peace pact in play with Japan...

[warspite1]

So to be clear, you mean that war can only be declared if the garrison values are exceeded yes?

[peskpesk]

Yes, If I remember the rules correctly:
1939 Not possible
1940 4-1
1941 2-1
...

[warspite1]

Sep/Oct 1930
Impulse: Set-Up (Italy)

Italian scrap plans are my standard fare

[warspite1]

Sep/Oct 1930
Impulse: Set-Up (Italy)

The Italian set up

[Orm]

I assume that we play with the standing order that no submarines will be included in port strikes on major ports. Until cancelled, in advance, that is.

[Orm]

ORIGINAL: warspite1

So to be clear, you mean that war can only be declared if the garrison values are exceeded yes?

Yes. War between USSR and Japan may only be declared if the aggressor has enough units to break the pact.

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For clarification and my memory.

To break the pact you need 2:1 but the defensive garrison value is modified depending on year. So in reality the value needed is as follows.

No war in '39
4:1 in '40
2:1 in '41
1:1 in '42
2:3 in '43
1:2 in '44 and '45