Advice for house rules on our first multiplayer game

[ham79]

We are about to start our first multiplayer game with mostly people completely new to the game, with couple more experienced players. Great Britain and Germany are the most experienced ones (which isn't saying much ) and novices will be play France-USA, Japan and Soviet Union. As multiplayer game is quite a investment in time and this is first one for all of us, we don't want to run to some game breaking imbalance issue down the road. Therefore I have been looking over some threads in the multiplayer section for good house rules to reduce this risk.

At the moment we are planning to make it just general "don't abuse the game" rule with the war starting with Danzig event and Japan allowed to join with the event in '41. Barbarossa also allowed in '41 and if Germany doesn't DOW on Soviets, then Soviets allowed to DOW in '42.

1) Any other good general rules we should look in to ?

2) Seems like reserve building is limited in most games. Why is this ? Some balance issue ?

3) Upgrades. These too seem to be limited in some games. What is the rationale behind this ?

Anyway, all answers, thoughts and rambles are much appreciated!

 

[MoonDog1313]

look at most of the MP games, they have the House Rules post first. What days and times are you looking at playing?

 

[ham79]

Yep, like I said on my first post, these questions came up AFTER reading other House Rule posts. I don't want to copy them blindly, therefore asking for the explanation of the reasons behind them and thus see if they are something we should have too.

 

[987655mm]

Yep, like I said on my first post, these questions came up AFTER reading other House Rule posts. I don't want to copy them blindly, therefore asking for the explanation of the reasons behind them and thus see if they are something we should have too.

Add this rule: If you build reserves you may not switch your training policy, because I am not sure, but building reserves and then switching your policy and then mobilizing will make them have the specialis training even if they didn't have that training. I am not really sure on this one, so please correct me if I am wrong. Also, are you guys recruiting or is it only a game with friends?