Current House Rules for The Legend Begins Deluxe

1. Each side (Axis and Allies) can only build 20 field works per game,
total.  The Italians are assumed to have built seven by the time of
the Enter Rommel scenario.

[This restriction is taken from The Gamers' DAK.]

2. All field works can only be built in primary segments.

3. The defender has to provide defensive supply just as the attacker
has to provide combat supply.  A supply point used for defensive
supply is used up every time a combat results in four step losses (but
can be used to supply any number of combats within range).  If the
defender does not provide defensive supply or there is none available,
the defender is halved.

[With the rules as written, once a sufficient supply cache was
established near the front, it was irrelevant for the defender whether
his supply line is 20 km long or 2000, yet historically it was far
harder for whoever was at the end of a long tether to maintain
himself, regardless of whether he was on the attack or defense.
Upping the limit to four losses means the defender pays about half as
often on average as the attacker.]

4. To compensate for the additional supply usage, both sides get one
additional supply point per turn in Tripoli and Alexandria.

[This was added as compensation so the added defensive supply does not
drastically reduce the pace of operations.  However, I've gauged it
purely by feel.  Initially I added two points but decided after some
testing that one point is enough.]

5. British Armored Divisions provide the same stacking benefits and
can contain the same number of units as British Brigades.  

[The British consistently failed to use their Armored divisions in the
concentrated manner the Germans did, doctrine and command control for
this not being in place.  In reality they were purely administrative
units that did not give any additional punch the way their stacking
advantages do in the game, thus in the game they are far tougher than
historical unless reduced in this manner.]

6. Use of the combat reroll advanced rule is a must.

7.  In response to observations that the Germans are frequently
reduced to being tankless due to the extremely low reinforcement
probabilities, Mark Simonitch has provided a somewhat beefed up tank
reinforcement table for the Germans.

1941	9-11: 1 tank
	  12: 2 tanks

1942	8-11: 1 tank
	  12: 2 tanks


8. In any combat, the side which had the odds shifted in its favor due
to armor superiority gets to assign the odd losses for both sides.
The other side gets to assign even losses.  If there is no shift due
to armor, assign losses as written in the rules.

[This rule is very important to show the superiority of the Matildas
over the Italian tanks and AT guns, as well as the later superiority
of German armor.  Norbert Moehring suggested an even stronger variant:
The side which has armor superiority gets to choose the first three
losses, and all odd ones after that.  Might make sense.]