So it would be basically one unit type?

yes

Interesting, But convoys would be quite strange.

haha yea hadnt thought about that...

I had an idea for a variant that used Fast units, Planes that traveled over two spaces at once. And marines, that traveled over land and water. I called it Libertarians & Capitalists.....and I'm not really sure what happened to it...

And you would probably have to disable the convoy feature...

I think it sounds interesting, but can you do a variant that only has one unit or is hardwired that there must be two?

and if we want to talk ideas in general we had a big discussion about a war in meso-america map awhile back and I recently had an idea for a variant based off college sports rivalries of all things

well there is the who controls america which only has one unit so it MUST be possible.

You could set it up so that each unit is identical...

I'm pretty sure the WCA variant has only land territories, so that players simple cannot build fleets - even if they wanted to.

Who Controls America has no coasts, therefore there is no fleet option for builds

yea i would just alter the starting builds, disable the build fleet option, and set all territories to army accessible. unless someone would like to donate an epic amphibious unit drawing.

but I feel that convoys could still be of use in the variant...
ie Army Apu-Ion & Ion-Tun is wrecked if Army Alb-Ion. on the other hand Ion C Army Apu-Tun gets the same results and is safer

you could make all coastal provinces adjacent to the seas adjacent able to be moved to by an army.

(damn that sounds complex)

what I mean is that:
an army in London can move directly to the provinces of:
Wales, Brest, Picardy, Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Norway, Yorkshire & Edinburgh BUT has to be convoyed to provinces beyond the English Channel and the North Sea.
Likewise an army in Naples could move to Rome, Tuscany, Tunis, Greece & Albania without fleets (by virtue of the TYS & ION) but would need to be convoyed further. [Rome would only be able to move to Tuscany, Naples and Tunis].

Totally doable, and you can keep fleets as an active participant without resorting to ''airplanes'' etc...

Fleets would still have a point as written above. As for an amphibious army icon, what specs do you need it in? From a visual perspective I'd fear it looking to similar to the fleet icon, which got me thinking it would be fun to do a map centered on the drug trafficking between South America and North America. Then it would make sense to have little speed boats that were basically amphibious armies, plus you have a lot of islands to utilize them.

That's the idea, I want fleets to still have a use, all the amphibious action does is allow for armies to move over their adjacent sea territory without needing a fleet. But to move 2 sea territories will still require fleets.

well you always could use a picture of a Higgins boat instead of a tank :p

(I like the drug cartels idea btw - lots of small rivers as well)