Cuban Missile Crisis [Quenched]

[isaiah40]

Okay another nit pick. The 37 Viggen seams to be a SAAB Viggen 37 with a manufacture start date of 1970, built for the Swedish Air Force. My suggestion is to use the USAF F-102 like this one. This will be more in the time frame of the Cuban Missile Crisis.

[Ace Rimmer]

Sully's Breakdown:

• Dixie to +2, Haiti to +1
  
  • Normally, I would be against a change like this, but I feel like these bonuses shouldn't be very hefty, since they aren't the focus of the map.

I think that would make those bonuses too boring, and all the action would be over the ship/missile base bonuses. You don't want to de-value them too much.

Military Bases - Try something like +1 for each missile base, -1 per US-Soviet pair. Adds some flair.

That would require making them neutral to start, as I strongly oppose bonuses that you're dropped on any map.

Hotline and HQs - I say drop the hotline and make the HQs killer neutrals. That way, no one can stack on the HQs while reaping the benefits of all techs in the chain. And, technically, I believe the hotline was installed after this debacle.

Technically true, but the invasion craft are not historically accurate either. We'll call it artistic liberty

Naval Control - Try +1 for 1, makes the tech more worth it. Also, add "US" and "USSR" at the beginning of their respective tech names.

I think that would unbalance the naval control too much, it would be the only bonus to shoot for. Naming change agreed with.

Nuclear Base Control - Maybe something like +2 per base, or +6 for all.

I think that would be too overpowering again. What about +1 per missile site? Adding a fourth US missile site, so that would be +4 bonus if you held all the U.S. or Cuban bases. It may need to be more of a bonus for the US ones though as they're sperad out geographically.

Nuclear Launch - I see two options here: make it an auto-decay 99999... and a -9999... deploy bonus or just make the killer neutrals high.

Still thinking about this.

posting this for now, to be updated later, working on another map revamp.

[thenobodies80]

Jake!!!
Wow, let me say this looks really good.
Like VS said, having the two nuclear launch buttons coded as killer neutrals don't allow you to receive a negative bonus for using it. But I don't know if add a decay is a solution: afterall your idea is to punish someone only if he uses the nuclear launch to bombard, not for holding it. With a decay or a negative bonus, you won't lose the region so you'll receive the punishment in any case, you've used the launch or not (Having said that another player doesn't take it or that it isn't nuked cashing spoils).

About the dotted lines, part of me agree with Natty, I don't know if have different dotted lines is necessary. I spent about 10 mins to understand why there are 2 different connections on the map. And honestly I understood it just because I've read your post:

There are only three different dotted lines: one style to show ship to ship connections, one to show ship to land connections, and one to show the connections between the Military Quarantine (to help that bonus stand out). The ship to ship connections have been made nicer.

I don't have problem if you want to use different connections to prevent confusion where you have few space but in this case, not having them explained somewhere on the map, they may be cause of confusion.

A question, what's the purpose of the small number on the air base roof?

The main concern is the launch button
For now, let me just change this thread to sticky and wait for your next update.
Looking forward to it.

Nobod....ehm... Joe

[Ace Rimmer]

Hi Joe

V16:

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Changed the graphical border of Huntsville/Tuscaloosa/Mobile/Montgomery
to include a nuclear base in Hunstville. Now there are four Soviet bases
and four U.S. bases.

Changed the bonus structure for the Nuclear Base control operations. It's
now +1 for each U.S. or Soviet missile base + the operation.

Added "Soviet" and "U.S." at the front of the Naval Control ops for clarity.

Replaced the 37 Viggen with the USAF F-102 - both region name and graphics.

Added another bombard point to Camaguey (Cuban missile base) for the F-4
Phantom II... gives more use to the jets.

Replaced 'Ochakov' (Soviet ship above Haiti) with the B-59 submarine which
essentially mirrors the U.S. jets, however won't start neutral and can
attack other ships, the Military Quarantine, and bombard the two U.S.
nuclear bases.

Changed the way the HQs (Kremlim/White House) can be attacked. Sully raised
the point that someone could just block all operations through the HQs. Now
the HQs lose 5 men per turn, and all missile sites can attack the Hotline.
This gives all operations/HQs much more accessibility.

Added a top line to the bottom legend to include more explanations.

Made the green dotted lines a darker shade of blue.

Changed the U.S. landing craft arrows to match the Soviet ones (consistency).

Removed "Global social and political views on..." section.

[koontz1973]

I really like this map and you seem to of put in and continue to put in a lot of work.

Quick question though as for the life of me I cannot see the answer on the map, what is the reason for the marking (like a tank tread) between the red 88's MQ1 to MQ8?

[Tisha]

I really like this map and you seem to of put in and continue to put in a lot of work.

Quick question though as for the life of me I cannot see the answer on the map, what is the reason for the marking (like a tank tread) between the red 88's MQ1 to MQ8?

the center bottom, of the lower legend.
Military Quarantine

[thenobodies80]

Time to move on!

[koontz1973]

I really like this map and you seem to of put in and continue to put in a lot of work.

Quick question though as for the life of me I cannot see the answer on the map, what is the reason for the marking (like a tank tread) between the red 88's MQ1 to MQ8?

the center bottom, of the lower legend.
Military Quarantine

That is why I could not find it. Very hard to see.


Congrats on the draft stamp. Lets hope this goes all the way.

[Ace Rimmer]

I really like this map and you seem to of put in and continue to put in a lot of work.

Quick question though as for the life of me I cannot see the answer on the map, what is the reason for the marking (like a tank tread) between the red 88's MQ1 to MQ8?

the center bottom, of the lower legend.
Military Quarantine

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[Ace Rimmer]

Gameplay discussion:

According to Widowmakers' spreadsheet, bonus values should be 3.67 for Dixie, 3.92 for Georgia, 7.5 for Florida, 1.5 for Jamaica, 3.25 for Haiti.

According to MrBenn's calculator, at least one player will drop the missiles, US ships, and the USSR ships in a 2p/3p game. fairly likely someone will drop the MQ bonus as well.

We may have to add some neutrals and starting positions to negate these.

[isaiah40]

Gameplay discussion:

According to Widowmakers' spreadsheet, bonus values should be 3.67 for Dixie, 3.92 for Georgia, 7.5 for Florida, 1.5 for Jamaica, 3.25 for Haiti.

According to MrBenn's calculator, at least one player will drop the missiles, US ships, and the USSR ships in a 2p/3p game. fairly likely someone will drop the MQ bonus as well.

We may have to add some neutrals and starting positions to negate these.

Okay here are a couple of suggestions.
1. To eliminate any player starting with missiles, start them as neutrals.
2. Change that one Soviet ship from starting as neutral to starting normal.
3. Divide Atlanta and put in Dalton, and only connect it to Atalanta and Athens. This shouldn't change the bonus value any.
4. Put 4 Soviet and 4 US ships as starting neutral to help eliminate the possibility of any player starting with a bonus here as well.

If my addition is correct this will give you 44 starting territories and 31 territories starting neutral for a total of 75 territories.

Just what I see.

[Ace Rimmer]

V17

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Change log:

Added "MILITARY QUARANTINE" under the actual Military Quarantine for added clarity. Done in the same style that the U.S. states are done in to keep consistency. Also brightened the glow around the mini-MQ in the bottom legend.
Added "Calhoun" territory by splitting Atlanta.
Replaced 88s with actual neutral value numbers since we all know that the 88s can fit, and it's easier to analyse the gameplay now.
Redrew some of the dotted lines. Some of them may be redrawn further down the line to make them smoother and possibly slightly change the color to improve contrast.

[isaiah40]

Calhoun will work as well

Looking good!

[Ace Rimmer]

Both Calhoun and Dalton are shitholes I ate at Pizza Hut in Calhoun once, and a very good friend lived there.

[Ace Rimmer]

No comments/feedback in the past week?

V18: slight changes to the lines

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