@LuckyLindy:
@TerrorBane:
DOW happens at start of turn so all szs with your new enemy are hostile. You can ignore szs with transports and subs (ie you can choose not to fight them and sail right past them) but all other ships become hostile zones where battle must occur if you enter them (unless you are entering the sz with a sub and they do not have a destroyer in that case you may sail right by.
and if japan declares war on UK or Anzac, they are also immediately at war with the USA, and a US destroyer would block Japanese combat moves right?
No. Japan may choose not to declare war on the United States but on Russia, England and Australia (or any part thereof.) America may then declare war on their turn, but for the rest of Japan’s round, American warships are still neutral.
@LuckyLindy:
I have a question. On the turn that Japan declares war on UK/Anzac, can they move through zones that have UK or Anzac or US destroyers during the combat movement phase, or do those zones turn hostile the moment the DOW occurs and before the combat move phase?
Cheers
They cannot move THROUGH British and Australian warships, but warships that start in the same sea zone as Japanese ships do not stop the Japanese in anyway. Japan may even load transports in such sea zones and move to conduct combat elsewhere.