@yazoinkergrapft Yes, the United States is allowed to declare war. If it does, the sea zone immediately becomes hostile, as there are enemy surface warships in it. However, since the United States is not declaring war until the Collect Income phase, during the Combat Move, Conduct Combat, and Noncombat Move phases the sea zone is still friendly, so the United States can still occupy it freely. On Japan’s next turn, its units in the sea zone will be starting the turn in an enemy-occupied sea zone, so the normal rules for that situation apply (those units must either move away in combat movement or attack).
Retreat rules
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Say Russia’s anti-aircraft shoots down 2 of Germany’s planes at the beginning of the battle. Can Germany now retreat without having performed a single round of combat? Or do they need to run atleast one round of combat before retreating?
We couldn’t find this in the rule book so we let Germany retreat but I’d like to know for future reference.
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@IKE:
Say Russia’s anti-aircraft shoots down 2 of Germany’s planes at the beginning of the battle. Can Germany now retreat without having performed a single round of combat? Or do they need to run atleast one round of combat before retreating?
We couldn’t find this in the rule book so we let Germany retreat but I’d like to know for future reference.
The AA fire on air units is just part of the first round of combat, not the end of one. The rest of the combat round will need to be completed before the option to retreat is given (air units hit by AA fire don’t get casualty rolls).
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That makes sense now, thanks YG. We weren’t thinking of the AA shots as part of the first round of combat, we were thinking that they happened before combat started.
I posted another question in the FAQ sticky if you have time to read that one as well.
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