English Ongoing Morale Penalty

[bensand88]

When a successful Sea Lion completes the conquest of England and the units there are reduced below 8 all English units on the map are penalized every turn with up to 40 points of morale loss. This seems overly draconian to me. Sure, an initial decrease just like a Declaration of War against any other national seems fair. But an ongoing loss of up to 40 is simply unrealistic.

The Canadians, South Africans, Australians, etc would have been shocked, but they would have rallied rapidly and gained a fire in the belly to win back England raising their determination and morale. With the current system they get back some with both the US and Russian coming in. Ok, that seems right as the "we have help at last" reaction would help. But its not realistic to consign them to total incompetence until that help arrives.

I would like to suggest, since we seem to be working on 3.1 anyway, that the powers that be take a look at this and come up with a better system that doesn't leave them English unable to even defend themselves in NA or anywhere else. Just going to a system that works for every other country, initial shock followed by returning morale, shouldn't be too hard to figure out.

In the throws of having the stuffing kicked out of me! )

[JyriErik]

I've always viewed it as a way to show that lacking the home islands the British manpower pool was essentially empty (IIRC the Commonwealth contributed about 3 corps worth of the troops to the war in europe (the war in the Pacific took the rest). Add to that the fact that the Commonwealth countries industrial base was nowhere as large/advanced as GB's and the loss seems reasonable to me.

Also, even with the loss of the home islands, the morale loss disappears once the US and USSR are in the war, so the effectiveness loss is essentially over by 1942.

Jyri