TipTop wrote:I have to agree with some of the other comments made here about the bonus's. They are too generous and easy to attain from the start.
I have played 2 games on this map so far. One a six player standard and the other a 5 player standard and in both games there have been players deploying 10-11 armies from the start while others only have 3-4.
Bonus's should be earned not handed to you on a lucky drop. It's like you are in a 100m race and one of your rivals is given a 10m head start. It is a pointless contest.
It's a shame because I love the art work on this map. There has obviously been a lot of time and care gone into it but the bonus's ruin it for me.
My suggestions would be either to make the bonus's smaller and harder to attain ie. 2 bonus for holding 3 planes, 1 bonus for holding 2 AA guns or start the map with all planes and AA guns held by neutral armies.
A fair contest should be even at the start. Make players earn their bonus's!
hulmey wrote:bonus's are way to high anyway lol....player in my game started with3 aeroplanes from the off!!!
It_oddball wrote:Also the chances are very big that 1 or 2 players have two airplanes in a group which gives them a huge bonus advantage which is very difficult to take away in the first turn (a plane can only be taken away by taking its connecting ship away).
So please add more neutral armies at the start of the map.
Most notably in the airplanes areas !!
SarumanRingLOrd wrote:the lack of neutral territories = very unbalanced odds with 4 - players on that ma, because some will always start with alot of planes
orion wrote:No, not take them out of action. Make more of them neutral. I've played two games thus far on this map. In one game I got insane bonuses on the 1st turn and am about to wipe everyone out on 4th. In second, if not for someone else's smart move(and with help from an +6 aircraft bonus on 1st turn) I would have had a +7 bonus of the 1st turn just from aircraft!
Aerial attack wrote:Largest Bonus possible for first person to move?
I could be wrong but I believe you start with 14 or 15 territories.
If this is the case you could have the following situation and be nearly invincible:
Start with 6 planes [5 not hittable by AA guns] (Z1 and Z2, V1 and V2, K5 and Kx); the 4 AA guns; and either the 4 Cruisers or 4 SP Tenders.
For 14 Terrs this would start you off with 21 armies as soon as the game was initialized !!!
You could shoot down anyone else's aircraft bonuses and deploy to take Nevada (Z1 and Z2) and Arizona (K5). That would be tight.
TipTop.
Above, after a search, are the poeple who have posted about the aircraft bonus.
That's only 6 people. Whether the other players don't care or not, or are happy with the way the game plays now, i don't know.
But if i can, after I have done some more research I will reply further to your post.
just thinking this may be a BOB related issue, maybe its just BOB that doesn't know i can use my aa
