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This rule is detailed on its own page.
It has not been playtested yet and is not in use in our games.
If a side has a single convoy point in a sea zone, it does not
grant the opposing side a -1 to its search die roll.
Rationale: We use Limited Overseas
Supply. It is too difficult to keep supply open when a single
convoy point grants as much as a 50% increased chance to ambush
every fleet in the sea zone.
In all cases except for TERR (which are covered under another
house rule), the CW may choose to build units from a specific
Home Nation. The player draws randomly from the units in that
forcepool from that home nation. Units built from a specific
Home Nation take 1 turn longer.
For example: The CW player wishes to build an Indian INF, since
he expects an invasion there shortly. He elects to draw randomly
from the Indian INF in his forcepool. The Indian INF drawn takes
3 turns to build instead of the normal 2 turns.
Rationale: We find it exasperating
and unrealistic that when the Axis is in the process of invading
England, the CW player has to build GARR and INF in New Zealand
and India. This makes the CW completely unable to respond to
specific threats to its Empire and takes strategy out of the
hands of the player and into the realm of blind luck.
Defenders gain an armour bonus on the 2D10 blitz chart only under
the same terrain and weather that attackers get such a bonus.
This does not apply to AT and AA guns. Requirements for first
loss during blitz attacks only apply if the attacker has chosen
the blitz table.
Rationale: The same mobility limitations
to the attacker when attacking, say, in forest, applies logically
to the defender as well, who cannot utilize as well a mobile
defense, armoured spoiling attacks, or mobile reserves. We also
feel that if the defender calls a blitz, there is no reason why
the attacker should lose a wheeled unit as its first loss. When
the defender calls a blitz, it basically represents a willingness
to conduct a tactical withdrawal.
Most cities provide an extra -1/2 to the attack die roll per
factory printed in the hex (even if a factory is moved). Half
point modifiers are rounded up. However, Paris and Rome never
provide such a modifier. In addition, any cities in France controlled
by France (not Vichy France and not Free France) do not gain
this bonus. Engineers using their city bonuses treat each factor
as half their normal effect. Thus, a 2 strength ENG adds +1 to
an attack against a city with at least 2 factory hexes. Attacking
ENG can only negate the defensive city bonuses; they cannot grant
a bonus above and beyond all city-related bonuses.
Rationale: We are worried that -1
per factory is too powerful in general (hence halving this bonus).
We also felt in certain cases (like France and Rome), it might
unbalance the game. The historical rationale is that Paris and
Rome were declared open cities, so the lack of -1 reflects the
all around desire not to see these cities completely decimated
by whomever defends the city. The France rule reflects the general
lack of French resistance.
In order to avoid a production penalty, the CW must transport
to a factory in England (including Northern Ireland if CW controlled)
3 resources from Africa, 2 resources from India, and 1 resource
from Australia. These resources must come from territories or
countries that are controlled by the CW at the start of the game.
For each such resource not transported to a factory in England
at the beginning of the Production Phase of each game turn, the
CW loses 1 production point.
In addition, at any point in the game turn, if a supply path
of unlimited length cannot be traced from India, Australia, New
Zealand, or South Africa to a primary supply source in England
(including Northern Ireland if CW controlled), then the CW notionals
for that Home Country do not gain the home country notional bonus
of +1 to its notional combat factors.
Rationale: The original premise
of the Food in Flames rule (devised by Devin Cutler) was to force
the CW to maintain its historically very important convoy lines
to its far-flung empire. RAW WIF allows the CW to ignore this
historical imperative and run a single short, massively guarded
line from the Carribean and Canada to the UK and produce at full
production.
The Food in Flames rule that made it into RAW is not sufficient
because 1) it is a bonus to production, not a penalty, 2) 3 production
points is simply not incentive enough to promote the CW to spend
its efforts guarding a far-flung convoy line, 3) it only required
a single convoiy point to be strung out to each location.
This new rule solves several of the above issues. It doubles
the penalty for ignoring Food in Flames. 6 producdtion points
is now 27% of the CW economy. Also, it requires more than a minimal
convoy line to get full benefit. You now have to run a 3 point
line to Africa and a 2 point line all the way to India.
Finally, the penalty to HC notional strength was designed
to reflect the fact that not only were the convoy lines important
for bringing materials and resources to the UK, but they were
important as a form of imperial morale to keep the territories
firmly committed to the war.
The naval supply units in the US forcepool (the TRS counters
with port capacity on the back) are a seperate forcepool and
are not included in the normal US TRS forcepool. German Milchau
Subs are a separate forcepool and are not included in the normal
German Sub forcepool. Japanese Supply Subs are a separate forcepool
and are not included in the normal Japanese Sub forcepool.
Rationale: These units are too specialized
to simply randomly draw them from a larger forcepool. It makes
no sense to essentially stop the US from building mobile ports
until it gets lucky or builds out its transport forcepool. These
units are not accidents of design, they were intentional design
decisions.
If units are on a frozen lake hex when it unfreezes, they are
not eliminated. Instead, the owning player moves them to the
nearest legal hex they can occupy without violating stacking
limits and turns them face down if they were face up at the time
the lake hex unfroze. If the units were already face down, then
they are treated as Shattered.
Rationale: 100,000 men being drowned
by a slowly thawing lake is preposterous.
At the start of each turn, during the Lending Stage, any Major
Power may declare any of its factories as "inactive".
Such a factory does not need to be in the home country of the
Major Power. In can be a captured factory.
Declaring a factory inactive means it may not be used for
production in the turn in question. But an inactive factory also
cannot be strategically bombed.
An inactive factory can be declared active during the Lending
Phase of the turn.
An inactive factory may be railed using rail movement like
any other factory and subject to the same restrictions as an
active factory. However, if an inactive factory is moved by rail
movement, then there is an additional 1 turn delay (beyond the
normal delay for railing a factory) before the factory can be
used to produce.
Rationale: The reason for this
should be obvious. I have always though it silly that the CW
can bomb Lille every turn even if the Germans don't need the
factory. In the past, it wasn't an issue because in RAW Germany
had to capture Lille, thereby destroying the red factory and
it could always choose not to repair it. But in CoN, that's not
the case, and the Germans get saddled with that red factory for
the rest of the game.
Build points allocated to Intelligence have
a gearing limit just like other units. Treat Intelligence as
a class of unit subject to its own gearing limits.
Rationale: Intelligence operations
were a long and time consuming process that did not happen in
fits and starts. In addition, the Intelligence swings become
absurd in the late war of the US and CW can simply allocate 20
build points each to Intelligence one turn on a whim.
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