experimental rules in MBT

[Weasel]

Hi Guys; Just thought I would pass on what I am currently experimenting with in MBT. Vesa and myself have noticed that the SP Score system works great for determining an outcome in a meeting engagement, but when it comes to an assault battle the outcome seems to always be a minor or medium for the attacker. We put our heads together and instead of changing the sheet, which would effect meeting engagements, we came up with two changes:

1. Flags are made to be worth only 1 point. Since flags are now so important controlling them is enough without also providing the attacker with extra points.

2. The battle point ratio has been changed. While a ME game still stands at 1:1, an advance has been dropped to 1.25:1 and an assault has been dropped to 1.5:1. What we have found is that the attacker, with the huge point advantage, almost always ends up with the majority of flags at battle end, even with HUGE losses. However, with the lesser points the defender will now have a real chance of holding a good portion of the flags at game end. Also with the flags being worth only 1 point a player must seriously weigh the worth of unit losses to flag gain.

I currently have 3 battles going with the 1 point flag, and 2 assault battles going with the 1.5:1 ratio.

And yet another experiment I am trying is an artillery FOO restriction one. Currently it seems that a player will buy 1 FOO (I am guilty of this for sure) and use that 1 FOO to fire at 20 different targets at the same time. This new rule restricts shoots to the number of FOOs you have on the board. So if you have 3 FOOs then you can shoot at 3 different targets at the same time. If you only have 1 then you can only shoot at 1. No other unit may call in artillery fire. In the three games I am currently playing there is not less then 3 FOOs per side now.

And finally I have created three new medals for those who run tournaments. Currently a player would just be awarded the Blitz Achievement Medal with a right up, which led to a lot of "generic" medals by some players. Therefore I created the three attached medals which are the Tournament bronze, silver, and gold. The officers have still to agree, but right now it seems that the awarding will be:

bronze for tournaments 1 and 2, silver for 3 and 4, and gold for 5. Then the method restarts with bronze again. Duncan was the first recipient of the Tournament Bronze medal for his Poland '39 tournament.

So that is it. Hopefully others will try out the experimental rules and let us know how it goes. I will also update this thread once the outcomes are achieved.


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