ORIGINAL: bradfordkay
The reason that Aden was added to the map was to give the British a "safe" entry point. Early AARs were showing that an aggressive Japaniese player could put Britain completely out of the game by capturing Karachi - no Karachi, no reinforcements. The idea was that since Aden was off the indian subcontinent it would not be threatened by a Japanese conquering of India.
It was generally accepted on the forum that to capture a major nation's last reinforcement point, thus preventing all reinforcement's from arriving, is a little too gamey. YMMV
Thanks. This at least has some logic to it. I don't particularly have a problem with capturing board edge entry points "cutting off" reinforcement however. It is SOP in most games. The incentive should be "don't let them do that" and I submit - if the game is not fundamentally flawed - it is only possible to take Karachi if the Allies strip the region of units
to send them to fight somewhere else. If the game is fundamentally flawed in some combat sense, then you don't fix that
by giving the Allies a different point - it would remain flawed.
As I found the game, ships had vastly too much range, and required far too little fuel, in general. Also, local points generated far too many supplies. This favored a force moving a vast distance - and then feeding off the local points when it got there (except in the central and south Pacific, where there were no local supply points to speak of). The game is not longer this way - at least not in RHS. We "eat" supplies generated by resource centers - when inappropriate - and we reduced the ranges of ships and made their fuel requirements reasonable. In that context, I am not very worried about how feasible it is to move to the map edge with a major force, and sustain it. I have yet to see anyone try - and AI is not trying as late as 1943. In RHS you need to be sending resources and oil to Japan - and supplies out from Japan - from day one - or you will run out of steam long before you get to India, never mind Pakistan.
IF you define Aden as "off limits" then we really should take out a very long list of ships and air units and some land units which never made it as far East as India. I left them in because I felt that they are legitimately part of the theater - needing to defend Aden. You send them East - it is your risk. But if there is no need for them - then it is wrong to let players have them and send them to increase already overwhelming pressure on Japan. THAT is gamey as far as I am concerned. This whole logic is backwards: a way to rationalize vast numbers of RAF squadrons and ships which never were PTO at all being "on the map" and free to deploy. UNLESS there is a consensus that attacking Aden is OK - ALL such units should go except the Aden base force - and that only so planes can refuel and service.
