Combined bombardment in AAR

Welcome to the forum, chaikov.

You read it correctly, in Revised OOB only land units can be hit by Shore Bombardment, that excludes airplanes.

Air units can be additionally hit starting from the Revised LHTR ruleset and in later games.

HTH :-)

This article can teach you a lot on playing Germany especially. http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?topic=14466.0

For the Axis to win, they need to break the Allied economic advantage. Japan should be snatching the easy territories in the Pacific and Africa and taking potshots with her battleships but the primary focus should always be Russia. For the Allies to win, they need to control Axis expansion and if they do that, they will eventually overwhelm the Axis.

My best advice is don’t make mistakes. Great strategy can be beaten with a silly oversight. Make smart purchases. Germany needs infantry early and Japan needs transports early. Look at what the Allies can do at least one round out every turn so that you won’t leave an opening for them. Use the turn order to anticipate their next move and to determine which units are already committed. Be aware of canopeners. US clears Novo/Kazakh and Russian tanks get Japan’s fighters in Sinkiang. UK liberates Karelia and US tanks from Norway support an amphibious assault on Eastern Europe.

ai. I’ve been playing it wrong. But I’m gonna change that tonight:)

thanks a lot Krieghund!

@Cmdr:

But this is AARe not LHTR.

Enhanced doesn’t alter the ability to move out of a contested sea zone as part of a combat movement.  Bean is correct.

Look at the Sequence of play as well.

Buy units
Combat movement
Resolve combat  <==  detection occurs here, AFTER combat movement.
non combat movement
etc

Hopefully you get the point.

@DarthMaximus:

Did you happen to have 2 battleships (Japan)?

In this case you could chose 1 bb to bom one place and the 2nd to bom another.

I’m not sure why TripleA would allow it.
But a singular BB can bombard only one territory, you can choose which one, but you shouldn’t be getting a singular shot in multiple battles.

Actually your right, I did have 2 Battleships, but now you got me thinking as to whether I allocated each Battleship to bombard separate territories. Given that this situation never crossed my mind uptil then, I may well have just clicked the default settings given to me without paying closer attention to how the Battleships were allocated…

But thanx either way for clearing this up for me  :-) (I’ll pay closer attention on triple-A next time… I might even try re-simulating the situation and see how the program handles it  :wink: )

Hey, I had to ask :-)

Would love to have you join in though :-)

Come on now and sign up!  See the posting in the “Events” thread under “Finding Players” and let’s get rolling!!  A&A Revised rocks, and this tournament will be a blast!

when asked what house rules he likes to use, larry harris himself proposed uk vs. japan with everyone else neutral. battle of the island nations or something…