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@Cernel Well, that gets into the whole issue of units in Axis & Allies not actually corresponding to a specific number of anything. They’re an artistic abstraction of capabilities.
Putting a stacking limit in Gibraltar alone would be arbitrary - why not in Malta too then, and Rhodes, and most of the Pacific Islands? And doesn’t that beg the question of the larger land territories getting their own limits? And how high should those be, how much would they vary, and how that would information be conveyed easily to the players?
I think it opens the door to a lot of extra complication and opportunities to run into balancing headaches without really adding much to the quality of the playing experience.
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I would say that this means that every game for which 1 infantry is representing 20,000 men or more and in which every land unit takes no less capacity on transports than the infantry unit should have a maximum stacking limit of 1 land unit in Gibraltar. (This would mean practically every TripleA basic game.)
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Gibraltar was only 6.8 square kilometres and certainly not plain.
This means that, depending on roughly how much your infantry is supposed to be in terms of infantrymen and stuff, and assuming that artillery, armour and so on are similarly limited, you can have a very low units limit.
This would be both realistic and helping with keeping low the needed area of Gibraltar for showing units in there.
I asked the "AI Mode" of Google "What is the maximum number of infantrymen which could have been defensively deployed in Gibraltar during 1941?"
This was the answer:
During 1941, the maximum number of infantrymen defensively deployed in Gibraltar was approximately 7,000 soldiers, organized into two brigades.
This infantry element formed the backbone of the overall 16,000-man total defensive garrison stationed on the Rock at the time, which also included large numbers of artillerymen, anti-aircraft crews, and Royal Engineers.If the question is framed around structural capacity rather than actual troop counts, the British military dramatically expanded the Rock's underlying infrastructure during this period. Royal Engineers and Canadian engineers excavated an extensive 25-mile network of underground tunnels, living spaces, and hidden fortresses.
Upon its completion, this massive subterranean complex was designed with a maximum theoretical capacity to fully house, protect, and sustain a force of 30,000 men for up to 16 months without external resupply.
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@KurtGodel7 Rhodes and the Canaries look a lot better now, and most of the naming issues got fixed.
The Philippines are kind of hideous, should see if Claude can try to focus on getting the shape of the islands down better.
The Gibraltar box is another problem spot where the name is floating outside of it. As a magnified blowup area, the square will probably look better if it has a lines or arrow at the corner that connects it with the land enclave.
Lebanon still cuts too far inland. Damascus should share a border with Palestine/Transjordan, and Lebanon should not touch Nejd at all.
One other issue I can see is that neutral and French territories are indistinguishable in color. Even if Vichy France is treated as a neutral power for gameplay purposes, it probably still ought to have its own distinct color to tell it apart from genuine nonbelligerents.