Hi stever7804 and welcome.
You are right: it is beginning of the game.
Means Japan can only make a Major IC on Korea. Not on any Chinese territory, even the ones they begin the game with, as these territories are still Chinese.
It also means the US cannot capture Norway and build a Major one there.
It is better for balance.
Hope that is what you meant.
Sub question…(edit: wrong place to ask - sorry)
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In a current game, the USA has a lone sub sitting in the seazone by Japan. Japan places a new destroyer in the same zone as the USA sub during its turn. Does the USA have to move its sub during its combat phase or can the sub just sit there with the DD and do nothing?
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Hi Der Kuenstler.
The US must attack the DD or else move out of the SZ in the Combat Move Phase. -
K thanks!





