Is it just me, or does anyone else see the value of a set of standardized house rules for Valkyrienet that could be referred to with the same ease as, say, Bolted HoI?
Anyway, here are a few suggestions:
- No tech sharing. At all. Certain nations are meant to be backwards, and liberal US sharing can wreck the game completely. Alternatively, a total of, say, 5 techs can be shared by any nations during the course of the game - which can be devastating enough. (Paratroopers, Improved Medium Tank 70+ mm, Nukes...)
- Historical aspiration: the major events that are preprogrammed should be respected and followed, such as Molotov-Ribbentrop, Anschluss, et cetera. Vichy France should be respected unless France has a human player. The Axis should not eat up Bulgaria, Romania and Hungary, nor should they strive to make the Baltic states or Finland part of their alliance until after Russia have taken her bite from them.
This only goes so far, of course, a certain amount of what-ifs should remain.
- No exploiting of known bugs, such as exaggerated bomb runs, expeditionary forces through neutrals, etc.
- Bolted HoI is used.
- Pause button should be used with extreme consideration, at startup, and at the start of certain major wars. Apart from that, everyone has to settle for the game speed.
- Unless a general agreement of the opposite is made, the players fills up the major powers in a certain order, such as Germany, UK, Russia, Japan, USA, Italy, France and Nationalist China. The latter two can be substituted for any minors, such as Spain and Turkey.
Anyway, here are a few suggestions:
- No tech sharing. At all. Certain nations are meant to be backwards, and liberal US sharing can wreck the game completely. Alternatively, a total of, say, 5 techs can be shared by any nations during the course of the game - which can be devastating enough. (Paratroopers, Improved Medium Tank 70+ mm, Nukes...)
- Historical aspiration: the major events that are preprogrammed should be respected and followed, such as Molotov-Ribbentrop, Anschluss, et cetera. Vichy France should be respected unless France has a human player. The Axis should not eat up Bulgaria, Romania and Hungary, nor should they strive to make the Baltic states or Finland part of their alliance until after Russia have taken her bite from them.
This only goes so far, of course, a certain amount of what-ifs should remain.
- No exploiting of known bugs, such as exaggerated bomb runs, expeditionary forces through neutrals, etc.
- Bolted HoI is used.
- Pause button should be used with extreme consideration, at startup, and at the start of certain major wars. Apart from that, everyone has to settle for the game speed.
- Unless a general agreement of the opposite is made, the players fills up the major powers in a certain order, such as Germany, UK, Russia, Japan, USA, Italy, France and Nationalist China. The latter two can be substituted for any minors, such as Spain and Turkey.
