10-15% USA swing is significant and would give me serious pause. IIRC Italy also takes a morale hit does it not? In a MP game I also wonder to what extent this creates a headache for Axis to have to defend even more coastline? And does it really permanently seal up the Med against a human opponent, ...

I don't think I ever saw a resource (such as a city) take damage when I had everything covered. I will say yes sometimes it's hard to know which cities will take damage when a certain slash-P hex is left with no adjacent unit (sometimes surprised me that it was actually a critical one to cover).

No you're not a jerk or a cheater. To be extra nice in the future, you might want to agree to house rules ahead of time with your opponent regarding these "controversial" tactics. I think some things you list just need to get nerfed, but it's not your fault. Paratrooper drop range when upg...

Only small changes in the latest patch: Chinese Xue HQ’s starting entrenchment increased from 0 to 2, and experience from 0.5 to 1. Japan now receives a Maritime Bomber rather than a Strategic Bomber in its Production Queue in March 1941 (Chernobyl). Probably the greatest changes this year for Chin...

I agree with Pete, Chad China seems to have come quite in fashion recently. With their initially only slightly weaker units and strong starting positions they can really dish out some Kung Fu early on. In my experience playing a timid and passive China just gets you killed marginally slower, but wi...

I believe there are 13 turns a year. Assuming Italy never gets any breakthroughs: Italy starts unmobilized, so doesn't benefit from tech sharing until mobilization happens. I believe catch up bonus applies as long as the enemy is fully mobilized, even if you are unmobilized yourself. So this means U...

I do kind of feel like techs should be a bit more predictable, especially the critical techs that only get one chit at a time, such as that Infantry Weapons tech for USSR. Breakthroughs can be annoying. In theory you are likely to get just as many as your opponent in the long run, but it's quite lik...

I also find it to be confusing sometimes. The fact that combat odds is shown is really nice, and after playing for many hours I do have an intuitive grasp of combat and movement that is pretty spot on, but I don't always understand everything. Generally the integer arithmetic is separate from readin...

Well this raises another question: why do Major Rivers NOT add +1 to movement cost on mountain terrain? For example I can find swamp hexes in Russia and China with a Major River, and the total cost to move into the hex is 3 (no weather, no roads). Again, "crossing" the river seems to have ...

The reason is that hex has a Major River. Major Rivers cost +1 action point to move into.

It's not about whether you "cross" the river but all about what hex the major river is on. You have to look very closely to see sometimes.

Thanks for the research. Yes my only source was wikipedia, which is sometimes incorrect.

fix for subs to ignore land convoys. :) You can see what I'm talking about if you turn off fog of war in that bug_orsha file from the bug thread I created (updated file). The AI subs seem to be attracted to the land convoy although I'm not entirely sure, they are also in "silent" mode so ...

Oh oops somehow I sent the wrong file

I can't figure out why so many land attacks get 1 substracted from their attack value. Not all of them do. There seems to be no rhyme or reason for it. Same terrain, same unit, but attacking into one french corps is attack 5-1=4 and the other one is 5=5.

I have a save file where a Russian town (Orsha) changes sides on its own, after I destroy the defender unit there. It's using mdsmall's Icarus mod v5 but I don't think the bug is related to the mod. It doesn't happen no matter how you destroy the Russian unit in Orsha, but it happens whenever I do i...

eternal dance" between artillery and trenches in this game Yeah I went a bit nuts yesterday and I didn't even complete what I wanted to say :lol: It's very hard to get it right. Make artillery too weak and it will be too much of a stalemate. Any solution would require extensive testing across ...

Random notes/bugs:

I noticed German corps get upgraded with anti-tank instead of anti-air. Not sure if this is the mod or me misclicking and saving something.

Gas/Shell gives +0.5 build limits for both types of artillery, not just "field" artillery. Pretty sure you didn't intend this?

Second, this assumes that heavy artillery are placed one hex behind the enemy front line. That makes them very vulnerable to being attacked by breakthroughs in the front line, as happens routinely with field artillery that only has a range of two hexes. Good point. The differences are in their rang...

I think the solution for protecting HQs is not place them within 3 hexes of heavy artillery! Well, this gives artillery a new powerful ability: to dictate enemy supply levels and unit arrangements behind the front. Now your front line won't be getting optimal supply anymore because of the threat of...

I read on Wikipedia that the extension from Poti to Batumi didn't exist until the 1960s.

The map graphic on the wiki also makes it look like there was no road to Batum/Batumi in WWI:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcaucasus_Railway

Perhaps consider deleting it.