Help Us Get TripleA running the '40 Ruleset

Thank you so much for this update. That thread is one I’ve been following behind the scenes for years. I can’t believe Larry Harris didn’t do more to improve this stand alone game.

There’s no reason not to get it, if you have the cash.

@amossin:

what i believed, the people i played against said japan could not take the territory since only a plane was in it and you could not shoot it…
they also said we had to have infantry attached to artillery to make it fire…and when i argued those points they called me a cheater

Air power alone cannot capture a territory, but it can eliminate all units in that territory without capturing it. At least one ground unit is needed to capture a territory.

Infantry and planes can shoot at each other without problem if they are in the same space.

Artillery can fire alone. However, it doubles the attack strength of an infantry if an infantry accompanies it. The artillery unit doesn’t represent only the equipment, it represents the equipment and the men who use it. Just as you wouldn’t need an infantry to “drive” a tank, the tank is self-contained with all the personnel needed to operate it.

@SAS:

NOs represent political/economic conditions that have no strict military basis and so don’t “naturally” fit in the military game mechanic of A&A.  The Japanese people would have gotten a great morale boost from taking over a critical Allied city like Calcutta, Sydney, or Honolulu.  The Allies don’t get a boost from holding them because that doesn’t boost morale or give any sort of economic or political advantage from keeping those cities that they already had.  The Japanese would have had a great political playing card if they had been able to capture any of these cities.

Exactly.  What he said.

@dinosaur:

Krieg,

Even an unoccupied Dutch Territory?

This could be better clarified in the FAQ with another sentence.

But anyways

What brings each power into the war is described in their section. There is nothing in the US section that says the US is allowed to declare war on Japan, just because Japan attacks a Dutch territory, so they can’t. However, in order to attack a Dutch territory Japan must be at war with the UK/ANZAC. If Japan was the one who declared first, the US can declare war anyway, attacking the Dutch doesn’t matter. If the UK/ANZAC declare first, the state of war that allows Japan to attack the Dutch exists, but none of the things which allow the US to declare war have occurred, so they aren’t brought into the war.

oops, it seems ive been cheating by rushing my Mech infantry and Tank to Alaska as US every US 1.

I agree that it would happen so rarely its not really worth worrying about the consequences. I doubt the guy who was playing the US will ever let that happen again. Thanks for helping to point out the NO rule on the IPCs though. Didn’t even think about that aspect of it.