Does anyone have the link to the aircraft range counters?

Well on the board you generaly move stuff 1 at the time.
So the wording is a bit weird but what they try to say is that you only have to move the carrier if not moving it would cause planes to have no landing zone.

So its not earlier as in an earliers phase but earlier as in earlier in the NCB phase.

The game is already weird in that imo all movement should be simultanious. You cant start moving later and still expect to arive at the same time.
If you first await a combat resolution and then move your going to be later then if you are moving immediately.

Yes; you are right.

tirano and i discussed this at gencon.  im still not in favor

you only kill 4 wimpy ships.  assuming japan blocks, his carriers and support ships may be safe for a J2 follow on and stack up, but you cant land supporting fighters on hawaii or build much more than the tts needed.

usa is imm brought into war, and gets $$ but even better, gets 10 facs.  So he may not be able to push you off right away but hes building in parity with you and thats his clear and onky early game goal.  if japan leaves, hawaii is recaptured.  And all of this to get $6 when there is $35 or so money down south that has to be denied to the small allies.  Like irl, PH awakens a sleeping giant and emboldens his little buddies.  japan can sprinkle planes everywhere but it cant defeat/cover every front at once

great answer GHG.

One nuance that is sometimes lost is that 1 carrier may not be able to potentially support 2 different planes, flying off in opposite directions.

If both planes do not have an alternate landing site,
and both would rely on the same carrier to recover them,
the fact that 1 plane or the other (or both) might die
doesn’t permit you to rely on that carrier,
if it would have to move to recover one of the planes in such a way that it could not then recover both.

If the carrier could stay where it is, or move and still recover both planes within 4 moves, the move is legal.  If 1 plane dies, you must noncom move the carrier (if necessary)  to receive the other.    If both planes die, you can noncom move wherever you like.

The thing you cannot do is combat move 2 planes that both rely on the same carrier in such a way that the carrier could not possibly recover both.  What actually occurs during combat doesn’t matter;  the move must be legal as of the finalization of combat moves.

@wheatbeer:

@Demandr3d:

uhhh, no I buy the kwangsi IC on turn 1, and on a j2 dow take Fic and IC it on turn 3….wheres the confusion?

Kwangsi is a 1 IPC territory … perhaps you meant Kiangsu (aka Shanghai) while he was thinking you meant Kwangtung (aka Hong Kong)

Bingo

Are there any Victory City charts for G40 2nd ed.?

Cheers for that mate.

Thanks!!