Auxiliaries

Pretty much all these options have merits. I've always liked aircraft capabilities for harassing and to give extra numbers in air placement. House ruling is key to get as much fun and use as possible from most of the auxiliaries. If its just a quick, straight set up, win at all costs and hell for leather we go, your likely just going to keep seeing the same go to units all the time.

What sort house rules do y'all use to mix things up?

I had made a Convoy scenario years ago. Sadly, it was lost on the old WotC boards when they tanked and the computer it was typed on died (I now use a flash drive).

It was based on the total hull points of the auxiliaries you have in your convoy which became X. It also allowed you to make ships with cargo, transport and landing abilities into auxiliaries (carriers, cruisers, destroyers and even battleships and MTBs could become auxiliaries if they had such an ability.). Guard the Convoy ships got a bonus (was it Close Escort?), all of your non-auxiliaries got the game text of the Guard the Convoy ability (but didn't get the extra bonus for naturally having it). This was all meant to show case ships with Guard the Convoy and Cargo/Landing/Transport abilities. X would decide how many points of non-Auxiliaries you could have. (I think it was 5 times X)

Anyways, the convoy defender rolls two dice at the start of each turn. The convoy hunter has a table saying what they may deploy based on the dice roll, X was used to decide how much. From attack squadrons of aircraft to submarine wolfpacks to destroyer/MTB squadrons to commerce raiding cruisers and battleships. This added a random element to the game. There were some rolls that gave "Clear Sailing Ahead!" aka, the hunter gets nothing to deploy. Just some food for thought.