“If an Axis player has one or more bombers on Crete, THEY may deploy 1 sea mine…”
So only Axis players that do can mine the Suez.
France/Anzac Questions In North Africa
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Can France move? Shouldn’t they have a supply truck instead of a tank? Are they important, do they change the impact of the game? Shouldn’t there be free forces in Egypt? Is Anzac in the game?
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- Free french can, but not Vichy units.
- Maybe, but they for some reason don’t need supplies at all, so they don’t really need trucks.
- They might be the critical margin for Allied victory. If they weren’t and the game was already balanced they wouldn’t be here (or more likely the Allies would be weaker).
- Too small to represent I guess?
- I don’t think so.
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@SuperbattleshipYamato I feel Egypt should have 2 French Infantry, and 4 Anzac with a Anzac Jeep or Truck.
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Maybe you can house rule it with Global 1940 units and painted ANZAC units.
I think it’s fine though since ANZAC units in the West basically fought under the same command as British troops. It was only in the Pacific, where forces were larger, did they have more autonomy (of sorts).
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@SuperbattleshipYamato Or maybe some of the UK reinforcements are Anzac.
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Exactly.
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@FranceNeedsMorePower Anzac are actually represented with one of the optional rules from the back of the rulebook. pp 38 “ANZAC Reinforcements: The United Kingdom player may deploy one UK infantry each turn from the Reinforcements Zone directly to the Indian Ocean convoy sea zone.”
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The Vichy French units are basically static until turn 7, then they defend against the Allied landings and either switch to Free French or are eliminated. The Free French units then activate at the same time as the USA forces, and the USA player can produce new ones in Oran within limits. No French trucks are needed or provided in the normal piece limit, the French use supply moved by USA trucks or don’t use any at all when their “self-sufficient” characteristic is in effect. The “extra” bag of pieces has some to use for player variants.
I think the ANZAC and Free French forces fighting with the 8th Army are all abstracted out as UK forces which is fine by me. There were certainly political considerations with those forces in real life, but for game purposes they were all under a unified command.
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Nice. If you really wanted to you could just replace those pieces with ANZAC pieces from Global 1940 and have them operate under British command.
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@SuperbattleshipYamato I definitely would if I had 1940!
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@SuperbattleshipYamato said in France/Anzac Questions In North Africa:
Maybe you can house rule it with Global 1940 units and painted ANZAC units.
I think it’s fine though since ANZAC units in the West basically fought under the same command as British troops. It was only in the Pacific, where forces were larger, did they have more autonomy (of sorts).
I am fairly certain that ANZAC forces (those that remain anyway, as most are now gone to the Pacific) are already built into the British “force pool.” Adding more units is an advantage for the UK player that doesn’t make sense. For that matter, the ANZAC optional rule is pretty ahistorical. Let me be clear. There is no historical precedent for there to be any additional ANZAC ground forces (certainly not enough amount to one or more infantry units at this scale) coming to the European Theatre, All but one division, the 9th, will be gone shortly after the game begins, and the 9th will begin redeploying to the Pacific before the game ends. If anything the UK should be losing troops. In game terms probably not actually removing any units because they’re more or less being replaced buy other British and Commonwealth units.
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