Tech Sharing Among Human Players

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Originally posted by Diefledermas

Tech Sharing Among the "Allies" and among the "Commonwealth"

As someone pointed out earlier, the Commonweath nations were organized to "fold in" the British command structure and there is a very good arguement for tech sharing BY the UK to her Commonwealth partners. BUT, this is purely a one way deal, if you want to be historical. And, if executed that way would probably maintain game balance just fine. As far as US-UK tech sharing, historically they were doing there own designs and not coorperating too much in the tech department. If anything, should be sending exp. forces to the UK en masse to represent US lend-lease directives. As for the USSR and the Allies. Tech sharing? Eh... no, not historical at all.

Tech Sharing Among the Axis

If anything, Germany and Japan were a lot more friendly in the tech sharing department than the Allies. We've all heard of the me262. Ever here of the Nakajima Kikka? Carbon copy of the German' jet fighter. On that note, the Italians flew a jet fighter prototype in 1931 (the Caproni-Campini N1). They INDEPENDENTLY built a jet fighter in 31! Second only to the Germans. Their great failing was an utterly horribly radial engine design (props) but that's a story for another day. My point? If anything the Axis should have less restrictions than the Allies (if you want to be historical).

Since it resurfaced again.

Hmm, i'm not entirely sure you are right about it. Weren't Allies using a lot of identical equipment?

 

[Diefledermas]

Hmm, i'm not entirely sure you are right about it. Weren't Allies using a lot of identical equipment?

Mazz posted this earlier in the thread

The Dominions of the British Empire, Australia, Canada, South Africa and New Zealand, had a symbiotic relationship with Britain that was much closer than the relationship between the US and the UK. Our militaries were designed to "slide into" the larger British military in an event of war rather than to stand on their own.

The tech share rules my group has adopted (its list in our clan post) seems to work at a good compromise for game balance vs. historical accuracy.

I suppose unlimited tech share among the Commonwealth to simulate UK equipment going to her partners may be a way to handle it but you would need to limit sharing outside the Commonwealth to balance that (possibly the USA may only tech share with the UK and not the Commonwealth).

This is a little off topic but the USA should also have some supply restrictions pre-war to prevent exploiting tech share limitations (by "paying for" tech development)