Help with concept RPG/Strategy game

>>55317136
I like the idea behind Kaiserreich and it's one of the more plausible AU WW1 scenario's (1920 Treaty of Vienna is retarded. The Central Powers win because reasons, and the borderline collapsing Ottoman Empire annexes all of North Africa because reasons. Germany also annexes loads of African and Asian colonies despite its "non-existant navy" [quoting the developers here, not reality]).

That said, your concept sounds way too ambitious. You want a Risk-like Grand Strategy game but at the same time you also want to play combat out like a wargame using d20 units? Even video games with loads of calculations going on in the background can barely manage to do this kind of thing (and often compensate for this by having utterly retarded AI like in Total War). I think you should trim some fat off your ideas first: what can you drop, and what do you absolutely want to keep?

For example, you can choose to highly simplify the Risklike aspect of the game and emphasize the wargame aspect. Like in Risk, certain territories (based on population density?) grant a certain number of units every X number of turns, which you organize into armies. You can move a certain distance every time, and when units clash you move the world map off the table and initiate a wargame. This would be very time consuming though, and make the world map segment of the game so unsatisfying you might as well just drop that entirely and merely use the world map for references in certain scenarios.

The alternative is to just turn the game into an alternative Diplomacy game where combat is resolved either by diceroll or simply by who has the most units in combat.

To put it simply, you want the player to be both the general and the president. He can be one, but not the other. If you really want to flesh out both parts, be prepared: the game will get really tedious really fast.

>>55317676
You make a REALLY good point. The game in itself is huge and complicated. I was planning on simplify the Risk aspect ten fold keeping every unit in a 1 to 1 basis (meaning that there will be separate unit TYPES such as artillery, planes etc) but instead of super complicating it, we were just gonna roll d20s for combat in multiple stages using the DnD 5th edition modifier system (Artillery: +2, Bombers: -1 etc) It IS super ambitious but all of my friends and colleagues are above average intelligence. My initial question is what do you think I should add or lose? I feel like I could lose the complicated aspects of Axis and Allies and simply make it a province to province type of combat (ww1 style, push boundaries lose boundaries) rather than focus on the battles themselves.