Generic Focus Trees too weak?

[Shaka of Carthage]

Also, regarding the building of capital ships by minors (to include nations like Canada and Romania and Siam) it should reallllllly cost you.

This could be accomplished by introducing:

• Light dockyards for the building of destroyers, submarines, and cargo ships
• Heavy dockyards for the building of light cruisers, cruisers, carriers, battleships and super heavy battle ships.

Wouldn't increasing the cost of the capital ships do the same thing?

 

[billcorr]

Wouldn't increasing the cost of the capital ships do the same thing?

Good point. Raising the cost of capital ships would do the same thing.

But.

What if the rules were also amended so that capital ships could only be repaired at naval ports that were co-located with heavy dockyards?

That would introduce the option of re-enacting Operation Chariot (the St Nazaire Raid). The target of that operation was to destroy the dockyards on the West Coast of France. These were the leading facilities West of The Channel capable of repairing large Axis ships operating in the Atlantic.

 

[DmUa]

The generic trees for minors are incredibly potent.

I've had people complain more than once that minors getting special trees in TfW and WtT made them far weaker.

- and i can concur with that statement. Without TfW as a Canada i can rush US in 1938 and conquer it by 1939. With TfW on the other hand... yeah... in long run unique tree makes Canada a powerhouse but war with US will be postponed up to the point when Sleeping Giant is already woke...

 

[Shaka of Carthage]

What if the rules were also amended so that capital ships could only be repaired at naval ports that were co-located with heavy dockyards?

If the costs of capital ships is increased, do we really gain that much by having heavy docks for capital ships? I can appreciate the ability to replicate historical events, but would it be worth the additional effort to make heavy docks?