@andrewhollinger:
Thanks for all the help. It’s really helped out.
I’m still a little confused about my first question.
Is this scenario legal:
I’m Germany. I’ve purchased my units. Now my combat move. I decide to attack a UK territory. I roll the dice and we battle. (Whether I win or not is irrelevant.)
Now I’m stoked. I attack Russia now, for the victory city of Leningrad. We go through dice rolls. I may win or not.
NOW I move on to my non-combat moves, mobilization, etc.
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Is it legal for Germany to attack TWO DIFFERENT territories in ONE turn?
I do understand that I can “Press Attack” or “Retreat” in a single battle. But can I skirmish more than once in a turn? Just curious.
Thanks.
Andrew
You can attack many territories, but not in the way you describe. You must conduct ALL your combat moves at once, before beginning to perform any of the actual battles. If you’re Germany on turn 1, you will often see players counter-attack the russians in karelia and either belorussia or Ukraine, they will hit the british BB in the western Med, the destroyer in the eastern med, and at the same time make an amphibious assault on Egypt with troops from southern Europe joining the ones from Libya and a plane or two (and in answer to your question, even if only one unit in the original assault comes in on an amphib landing, all ground troops are committed to fight without retreat, even if most of them came in overland. Planes, however, can disengage after the first round of combat if you wish.)
The trick is, you have to commit to ALL of these combat moves before you start ANY of the battles. You can’t do one and see how your doing before deciding whether to move into other territories.
There is still value at times in carefully choosing the order you conduct your battles as results in one may make you more or less likely to retreat in another territory, but you must commit to at least one round of battle in all those territories.
