@Vendetta said:

@KurtGodel7

I would recommend a name swap for the Advanced Production Centers, since APC is an acronym that every wargame is going to associate with armored personnel carrier.

Special Production Center / SPC should be a pretty easy substitute to avoid the overlap.

Your Europe map looks beautiful, from what I can see. Taiwan and Okinawa are a bit off-putting on the Asia one, they’d look better if they swapped sizes with one another. Okinawa being placed that close to the edge of the sea zone also leaves me wondering whether it should be shifted onto the boundary line instead.

Your combat system ventures far enough from any version of the game I’ve played that I can’t really offer any judgement about it at this point. Hopefully, once you’re far enough along in development, you can share a play by play of a test game as a demonstration.

Good feedback on APCs and Okinawa.

One of the places from which I drew inspiration was Axis and Allies Naval Miniatures. With that game, you use fighters to gain air superiority. Bomber type aircraft to benefit from air superiority. It's normal for units to have multiple hitpoints. The mighty Yamato was given 6 hitpoints. Cruisers, battleships, and dive bombers are unable to hit enemy subs. There was a very good paper-rock-scissors dynamic to that game which I wanted to bring into an Axis and Allies style map.

Step 1: destroyers fire. Enemy subs are taken as casualties first. Only after all subs are dead can surface ships be hit. Enemies killed during this phase do get a casualty shot.

Step 2: Subs fire. Anything hit during this phase does not receive a casualty shot. Only surface ships can be taken as casualty.

Step 3: Surface ships fire, except for destroyers. Enemies killed during this phase receive a casualty shot. Only surface ships can be taken as casualty during this phase.

@KurtGodel7

I would recommend a name swap for the Advanced Production Centers, since APC is an acronym that every wargamer is going to associate with armored personnel carrier.

Special Production Center / SPC should be a pretty easy substitute to avoid the overlap.

Your Europe map looks beautiful, from what I can see. Taiwan and Okinawa are a bit off-putting on the Asia one, they’d look better if they swapped sizes with one another. Okinawa being placed that close to the edge of the sea zone also leaves me wondering whether it should be shifted onto the boundary line instead.

Your combat system ventures far enough from any version of the game I’ve played that I can’t really offer any judgement about it at this point. Hopefully, once you’re far enough along in development, you can share a play by play of a test game as a demonstration.

Also:

AA guns now work differently. AA guns fire after the dogfight phase. They fire on a 2. Each aa gun gets one shot only, without regard to the number of enemy air units present. With three aa guns, you are guaranteed one hit. If there is a particular factory you want to defend, you could pile a lot of aa guns into the territory with the factory. Defending your army from being strafed is more difficult, because the dive bombers could always choose to attack a territory where your aa guns aren't. AA guns don't fire during ground combat, but they can be taken as casualties.

Dive bombers fire at twice their normal combat value when attacking land targets. Likewise, torpedo bombers fire at twice their normal combat value when attacking surface ships. Imagine attacking a fleet of 10 ships with your torpedo bombers. Only the ships damaged or destroyed by your torpedo bombers would get to fire at aircraft. The rest of your fleet was considered too far away from the action to be able to use its aa guns. The way to defend against enemy torpedo bombers is with fighters and jets.

Air zones come in three flavors: land, coastal waters, and open ocean. For a land zone, you need a landing base within range of your aircraft. For coastal waters, you need either a landing base or aircraft carriers. For open ocean, only carriers will suffice. When using carriers, the number of aircraft you can have in a zone is limited by carrier capacity.