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News: Some pics and commentary posted below from the last advanced game playtest in July:

 1   Advanced Struggle for Europe (ASfE) / Introduction / Re: Alternating Movement Concept  on: September 01, 2010, 07:31:33 AM 
Started by Mark | Last post by Darkman
Very nice ... i would definitely go for air leaders aswell. 
For ground leaders i would like to see some offensive and defensive experts if not yet exist.

One thing , should't Rommel's ghost division „Gespensterdivision" be a part of the france campaign already next to Guderian (Maybe with a different role)

I still think there should be a lot more leaders that come available if some other die , but they should be a lot weaker

 2   WWII: The Struggle for Europe and Asia / Game Design / Re: Damaged Ships  on: August 31, 2010, 09:47:50 PM 
Started by Darkman | Last post by Mark
Damaged US carriers (the only 2 hit, 2 plane carriers in the game) can only carry one plane when damaged per the rules:

U.S. Fleet Carriers
U.S. fleet carriers can carry up to two fighter units each and take two hits to sink. A damaged U.S. Fleet Carrier can carry only one fighter.

So - we do have this penalty for damaged ships.

 3   Advanced Struggle for Europe (ASfE) / Introduction / Re: Alternating Movement Concept  on: August 31, 2010, 09:44:09 PM 
Started by Mark | Last post by Mark
The Germans start with: Rundstedt, Leeb, Bock, Guderian and Hoepner
On the Place Builds Phase of Winter 1940, they add: Hoth, Weichs, Leeb and Kleist.

On the Place Builds Phase of Winter 1941, if they have not yet won the war, Hitler removed less 'reliable' generals Guderian, Hoepner, Leeb and Bock and add Manstein, Paulus and Kluge.

On the place Builds Phase of Winter 1942, if they have not yet won the war, Hoth is removed and Kesslering and Model are added.

On the Place Builds phase of Winter 1943, if they have not won the war, Manstein is removed and Manteuffel and Dietrich are added.

Once a German Mech unit is landed in North Africa, Rommel is placed with the unit on the Place Builds Phase.

That is the Germans leadership moves for example.  We played around with the idea of air leaders - but did not add them yet - but perhaps certain air leaders could give a boost to combat like Richtofen gets a re-roll for ground support, Harris gets re-roll for strategic bombing, etc.

We did add something similer for German subs.  The Germans start with three sub 'aces' (Kretschmer, Luth, and Prien) that give them Sub attack re-rolls.  Something similar could be considered for air-leaders - but have not played with the ideas yet.

What are you thinking as far as air leaders go?

 4   Advanced Struggle for Europe (ASfE) / After Action Reports / Playtesting / Re: JohnCon 2010 II - The Rematch -  on: August 31, 2010, 04:13:44 AM 
Started by Mark | Last post by John D.
The winter encirclement was a great/scary move...

 5   Advanced Struggle for Europe (ASfE) / Introduction / Re: Alternating Movement Concept  on: August 31, 2010, 04:12:13 AM 
Started by Mark | Last post by John D.
About 15 leaders for the Germans - no luftwaffe. The leaders are not active all at once. Many rotate out and in on a time frame...

 6   WWII: The Struggle for Europe and Asia / Game Design / Re: Damaged Ships  on: August 31, 2010, 04:10:44 AM 
Started by Darkman | Last post by John D.
We tried a -1 penalty for combat values but decided against it. You can try or any of your other ideas and use them for house rules...

Let us know!

 7   Advanced Struggle for Europe (ASfE) / Introduction / Re: Alternating Movement Concept  on: August 29, 2010, 08:08:27 AM 
Started by Mark | Last post by Darkman
How many leaders have the germans ? (wonder) And are there also airforce\luftwaffe leaders?

 8   WWII: The Struggle for Europe and Asia / Game Design / Damaged Ships  on: August 27, 2010, 08:30:19 AM 
Started by Darkman | Last post by Darkman
Hey guys , how about giving damaged ships some sort of penalty , like reduced firepower , reduced capacity (carriers) or reduced movement?

What do you think?

 9   Advanced Struggle for Europe (ASfE) / After Action Reports / Playtesting / Re: JohnCon 2010 II - The Rematch -  on: August 26, 2010, 03:37:31 AM 
Started by Mark | Last post by Mark
Winter 1941-42:  The 8th Army advances against Rommel and drive the Axis out of Egypt.  The British land in Morocco and are quickly reionforced with the U.S. which have joined the war.  The Soviets counter-attack in Winter and encircle a German army outside of Moscow!

 10   Advanced Struggle for Europe (ASfE) / Introduction / Re: Alternating Movement Concept  on: August 23, 2010, 01:13:31 PM 
Started by Mark | Last post by John D.
Leader list is pretty much completed. There was a bit of adjusting. We will playtest the Pacific a bit more - afterall we have to try to break the game - in the hope that it is not broken...

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