PBI architect

[martin goddard]

I am working on the Architect to get everything ready for release.

Then I need to do the videos.

It is all getting close.
Anything strike you as needed in the Architect?  Apart from making your favourite army even better.

The architect will only be available in pdf.

martin

[John Watson]

SMG option for the Finnish Companies. It would seem odd for them to make what was considered the best SMG of WW2 and then not use it themselves. Also it was a far better weapon than a rifle to use in woods. Suggest they have SMG option for officers and 0-1 SMG per platoon.
Also removed the Vickers Medium tank from the Greeks. The British sold some to the Greeks but never delivered them. I don't know if the Greeks actually paid for them or not.
USMC. There is a 1942-45 option and then there is a D series, E series and F series. Should D,E and F replace the 1942-45 option? It seems to me that it is duplication.
Should the British Infantry Co, Tunisia also be used for Sicily and southern Italy, or should it be the 1944-45 list?
Dutch should be completely banned as I always lose to them badly!
Is the French Infantry Co 1939-40 list good for the French Foreign Legion in North Africa 1940-43? Also will there be a list for the Moroccan Goumieres that fought in Tunisia, Sicily and Italy and who also contributed greatly to the victory at Cassino?
Should the Gurkhas also get a reduced assault score against the Germans and Italians, who were terrified of the little men with the big knives?
That's all I can think of for now.
John

[Colonel Kilgore]

I think the German para list needs a refresh.

They varied in quality (arguably down to Raw in some cases, late war, for those that were paras in name only) and the composition/weapons changed too.

How about 1940-41 (airborne); 1942/3 (elite infantry) and 1944/45 (good to bad but with shiny weapons) lists?

Simon

[Colonel Kilgore]

I think you may have opened Pandora's Box here, Martin!

Simon

[martin goddard]

Thanks Simon and John

I can act on those ideas.


martin

[martin goddard]

This topic will get a lot of talk going. My job will be to sift it and update the Architect.

I have changed the asset tables for all armies to use the new categories.
Each list will also give a yes/no to transport use.

I will give greater credence to those who play PBI, in that they understand how the lists work on the table. Especially useful are players who use a variety (raw, veteran, average)  of armies from early  war up to end of war (French, German, British, US, Japanese, Russian et al).

A consideration is  asset values. I suspect no one will insist on a lower asset value for an army they use. I will take a "whole book" approach. I have increased a lot of asset 4 to asset 5 so atht players find them more attractive.  Many of the 10,11,12 have been reduced too.

No need to be worried about any of this, the armies will still be much the same.

Here goes.

martin

[Smiley Miley 66]

The British Support tank Early especially - late war support tanks as well as the Howitzers were valued all over the place ? Not consistently ! The performance of each mark of howitzer will change with the version used not by particular tank as as is the case at the moment! So needs sorting as highlighted a couple of years ago With the adjustments sent to you back then by email ?
Also a lot of things suggested by John.
But if the Gurkhas are changed then obviously a plus to the opponent will have to be included? As this is the way the rules are done !
John is right there should be a 1943/44 Mediterranean list as well as a 1944/45 list ? Because as the forces rose up foot up the leg the fighting did change and so did the earlier desert formations to go with the tactics ?
Also the British Reconnaissance Squadron should be late 1941-1945 not 1940 ? As nice as it is; it is wrong to have such a considerably more powerful force for the British that early in the war ! Plus the concept wasn't thought of until 1941 !
Also an early Singapore and a LW Burma army difference? As in Italy as lessons were learned the hard way formations did change with them ?
Miles

[martin goddard]

Thank you John, Miles and Simon.
I think I have done all of that now (?)

Miles, I have classed all CS as HE 3. Is that what you meant?


martin

[Smiley Miley 66]

Yes as the point costings are affected now you have the HE factor involved. But that's not a bad thing.
The CS version should cost a bit more as it is a specialists tank, rather than run of the mill ?
Miles

[John Watson]

How about..............

LRDG/SAS (veteran)

Company Commander
2 - 5 Infantry Platoons - PC(smg)
                          6-10 smgs (up to 6 smgs can be exchanged for 1-3 lmgs, 1 light mortar, 1 ATR/PIAT, 1-3            rifles)
Platoons must arrive on table in transports. Each platoon has 1 Willys jeep with lmg (up to 3 bases) and 2 Chevy/Ford 30cwt trucks with either lmg, mmg, or 37mm Bofors AT gun (up to 4 bases).

Transports and their weapons to be paid for as normal.

John

[martin goddard]

I think this might be a good idea.

Did they ever attack in company strngth?


martin

[John Watson]

Apparently they did although they would pick different airfields. That is in North Africa. They would travel in company strength to a rendezvous and then split up. Theoretically they could be intercepted before they reached the rendezvous. I am not sure how this changed in Sicily, Italy, Sardinia and NW Europe, but I will let you know once I've read about it.
John

[martin goddard]

God news John


martin