Tank Blitz Q

[DarthMaximus]

Just for more clarification using that rule, the territory you leave from IS a friendly territory, so you ARE allowed to return to it.

[Guest]

thank you

[kyrial]

Well I suppose the verdict is out on this one :D

“a combot move on a 2-territory move, if the first territory your tank moves through is enemy controlled but not enemy occupied you may blitz it… that is place your control marker there as owner, and move into the second territory. the second territory may be enemy occupied, or enemy controlled, or a friendly territory, or a neutral territory.”

I’ve never played giving the tanks the ability to simply blitz out and return, but according to the rules (which admittedly I haven’t looked over in a while, not word for word anyways), I suppose it is possible.

We’ve always used blitzes as part of either an offensive where the first territory is enemy controlled and the second is occupied or where both are simply occupied (the latter happens often in Africa with German armour for example).

But yeah, if you go straight by the rules there’s no reason you CAN’T simply pick up a territory and then pull right back. All the more reason to never leave a territory empty; i.e. at least leave one INF there so the tank can’t pull this tactic off lest they want to strand the tank and I’d take exchanging a tank for an inf any day.

My apologies for leading you astray… 8)

[Guerrilla Guy]

then it cannot move back during Non because it was in combat….

[Grigoriy Ivanovitch]

@Guerrilla:

then it cannot move back during Non because it was in combat….

But it wouldn’t move during NCM, it would move during combat. The blitz and return would all happen during the combat phase.

Also, I’m going to be using Tank Blitz Q as a name for a strategic maneuver next time I play. :P

[Guest]

what strategic maneuver, may i ask, is this? please share

[MistaBiggs]

It’s called tank blitzing.

[Guest]

I know what blitzing is, i’m the guest who started this whole convorsation, i was just wondering what GI was going to do with his special maneuver called “tank blitz Q”

[Grigoriy Ivanovitch]

@buddy:

I know what blitzing is, i’m the guest who started this whole convorsation, i was just wondering what GI was going to do with his special maneuver called “tank blitz Q”

Probably nothing, just whenever I get a chance to blitz, I’m going to, and call it Tank Blitz Q, just for a name. :roll:

[joshost]

yep its legal

history is boring without war
-joshost

[MysticalRommel]

yes but why would you want to fall back into your own territory seems like a waste of tanks to me

[Guest]

Well, it could be just cheap income. If the tanks move on (or even stayed), they could end up in an area that the enemy can easily attack and take your tanks out. That’s what i then call a waste of tanks.
Or maybe you want to prepare a major attack, as you don’t have to retreat to the same place you started from.

To SUD:
You are the only one here who mentions that you have to declare the whole move before moving.
Where is that from, and why does it only apply to the Blitz, and not for fighters/bombers returning (even though they do it on a diffferent phase), or why don’t you have to declare where you would retreat to before you attack another territory? I don’t like that interpretation of the rules, and it doesn’t come out of the rules (at least as they are quoted above).

[C_F]

You may not like that interpretation, but I believe it is the correct one. I had never thought about it before, but I do kind of agree with you. If a tank has more than one friendly territory it can go to after it takes the empty enemy territory it should be able to do it in non-combat like planes. But those are the rules.

[Grigoriy Ivanovitch]

It could also be the fact that a blitz on to an occupied enemy territory would not have inf support and would therefore (most likely) end up with no armor.

[MysticalRommel]

as I have stated many times inf support is useless and if anything is worth taking take it and an enemy terretorrry even if you have to fight it can help you overcome them. Its like this If you destroy more then they can produce you have made a victory

[Guerrilla Guy]

depends again MR… I have never seen someone do all tanks for asia in hopes they will massaacre the holdings there with no superior force… that is just one Example… also if the kill more than you take then you have a defeat 8)

GG

[cystic crypt]

@MysticalRommel:

as I have stated many times inf support is useless and if anything is worth taking take it and an enemy terretorrry even if you have to fight it can help you overcome them. Its like this If you destroy more then they can produce you have made a victory

but this last bit is why having inf support along is so useful. If you bring only armour to the party, then only armour maybe destroyed. If you bring a combination, then you can choose to lose the cheaper (and less offensive-y) units. But i’ll tell you - if i see a territory with a bunch of arm on it (with no inf), then i’ll be thinking of how to destroy as many of those as possible. I’ll straffe it, attack it, anyway i can. If i can lose an equal amount of inf to your arm, i’m happy.
Also attacking and falling back into your own territory is a very useful strat, and an excellent use of armour. You can force the other side to split his forces up in order to retake something that you blitzed. A classic maneuver is the Germany 1 when the Liberian armour “blitzes” French Equatorial Africa and dives back into Liberia. This way you can reinforce Lib with units from SEU (air, inf, whatever) and attack Egypt the next turn. A free ipc, and if the UK wants to take it, then this affects its ability to maneuver. If you want a more practical look at this strat, i’ll meet you in a PBEM game . . . ;)

[MysticalRommel]

or another strategy Imagine that in the blitz you have had even though no causulties you are fighting a long drugout war with russia(you are Germany) THe RUssians last turn build a nice tank force and have plenty of air support and they push straight for and take your capitol you have left yourself open and they do not need to split up for they have taken the gold. 8)

[MysticalRommel]

Nothing except airforce matches the power of tanks as an offensive weapon

[cystic crypt]

if we both had armies valued at 100 ipcs,
and you had only arm or air,
and i had a combination of arm and inf,
then do the odds yourself with you attacking, and try with me attacking.
compare the victors’ remaining ipc value.
i will win.