We have an unprecedented situation where Sugar, KZ and myself agree. We believe that the current rules linking Allied city control and DAK Africa placement should change. Below is a post from KZ in the AAR thread on the battle between he & Sugar.
ORIGINAL: KorutZelva
What to do with the DAK?
Depending on who holds what in NA, the DAK spawns in different places.
Tripoli (Allied) + Gazala (Allied) = Trieste
Tripoli (Allied) = Benghazi
Tripoli (Axis) + Gazala (Axis) = Benghazi
Tripoli (Axis) + Gazala (Allied) = Tripoli
etc.
This means it's possible to game the system to get the DAK to spawn in a favorable spot. Example, if I omit to take Gazala, take the cities behind it and reduce Benghazi's port and city to 0. The DAK spawns trapped and crippled. Sugar could still select not to spawn the DAK but given they appear on his turn he could operate the plane out, and by itself is still worth the price because it allows him to go over the unit limit. While it's not game breaking (like taking all of the UK but not London) but it still feels cheap as heck.
What says you, dear reader? Should I take Gazala or not? (Sugar, you can chime in too)
Currently the Allied player can game the DAK placement with which cities they control in NA, thus wiping out the DAK when they land.
Two solutions are:
1) Change the Cities
2) Let the Axis player determine where they would like the placement of the DAK.
If I've missed anything or someone proposes other changes please feel free.
We do all agree its important to change this.
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