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@christophfromgermany Excellent post, Christoph! You should join us on Discord!
https://discord.gg/a7bPbWgk

@zone56 Happy to help! Let use know what your experience was like. Do you know about ABGB’s discord for Global War '36?
https://discord.gg/fKBcDUXG

There is a lot of activity there, whereas this site is not as active for GW36.

Here is my list of websites selling A&A miniatures. Respond to add to this list!

Alternate Ending Games (High Quality, Slightly Higher Price, Scalable): https://www.alternateendinggames.com/

A&A Boardgaming (High Quality, Painted, Expensive): https://www.axisandalliesboardgaming.com/

Combat Miniatures (Excellent): https://combatminiatures.org/collections/all

EBard Models on Shapeways (Excellent): https://www.shapeways.com/shops/ebardmodels

Field Marshal Games (note: I only use this website to purchase HBG Battle Piece “Sets”): https://fieldmarshalgames.com/category/battle-pieces/

Historical Board Gaming (The Gold Standard): https://www.historicalboardgaming.com/

I Will Never Grow Up (Lower Quality, Lower Price): https://iwillnevergrowup.com/product-category/minis/minis-ww2/

XP Forge (Difficult Website to Navigate, Great Selection, Scalable): https://xpforge.com/shop

@mike141500 Most people have migrated to the Discord server for questions regarding the rules. A wonderful player who is very dedicated to the community, A Board Gaming Bro, created the discord channel: https://discord.gg/G5gYY58b
There is a section on rules questions. Also, check out A Board Gaming Bro’s youtube channel for awesome tutorials on how the game is played! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXjncqQ9mzU
Welcome to the community! You have selected an incredible game!

@mike141500 I’m braindead! 8 ) Ok, now what specific peacetime income are you talking about? Are you wondering if CCP DoW’s Japan, does Japan attacking into land zones on a turn lower their oil trade income? It does. Are you wondering if France’s peacetime income increases +1 for this, it does not because the +1 is triggered here for Japan DoWing China, not the reverse.

@mike141500 said in The FAQ Thread:

Does the CCP declaring war on Japan first, mean Japan can attack China without triggering any peacetime income?

If you review the China CCP National Reference Sheet, you will see that in order for the CCP to declare war, they must have evolved to a Major Power. Are you referring to a situation where the CCP has evolved to a Major Power, or does that answer your question?

@insanehoshi InsaneHoshi is the best! He’s much better at explaining than I am! :smile:

@plasticknight Yes. In the second scenario, if the Home Fleet moves into Sea Zone 11, then the German player will cower and not scramble any fighters because the Home Fleet would annihilate them. So then, the MAP+DD pair would get their single rolls to hit any German subs. If they got a hit, the hit submarine could fire back, attempting to kill the Destroyer. If they missed, the submarines would submerge.

@plasticknight It is my understanding that with your first scenario, the German player could scramble the fighters to support the submarines. The restriction on the MAP+DD pairing is limiting to the attacking player in this scenario, not the defending player.

My take on how the situation would work with your second question is:

1. The attacking player moves multiple attacking ships moving into SZ11. Following Page 37, “Clarifying Ordering Effect”, the attacking player announces his intention.
2. The defending player announces what he wants to do with his submarines - intercept the moving units, or allow them to continue moving. Let’s say the defending player does not intercept.
3. The attacking player completes all combat movements.
4. The defending player now gets to decide if he wants to scramble fighters from Western Germany. Let’s say he does so.
5. The attacking player rolls for all his units, but tracks separately if his MAP and DD get hits.
6. The defending player will select his casualties. If he wants, he can pick submarines to be killed by non-MAP+DD pair, but if he doesn’t want that, he would take all the non-MAP+DD pair hits on fighters, then take any left over MAP+DD pair hits on the submarines.
7. At this point, the defending player can decide if he wants his submarines to submerge, or roll. He can even decide that if he wants a submarine that is going to die shoot back before dying.

@trig Right you are, Trig!

@jbuckbuddy No way could they declare war on KMT or Japan before July, 1939. Refer to the USSR National Reference Sheet for that.

If Japan declared war on USSR and USSR took back Japanese territory that was in China, then USSR could enter China before July, 1939.

If CCP were to possess Sinkiang, it is my understanding that the USSR could move into Sinkiang with the CCP.

@noneshallpass @Caesar-Seriona Thanks, guys! I’m glad the rule is this way, because it just felt wrong to send lend-lease to a newly captured territory!

If you capture a territory during the combat phase, could you lend-lease to that territory during the same turn?

Here’s a video describing the situation (start watching at 2:13):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6K1iOATBlk&lc=UgyER-cFH14vF3pK6zJ4AaABAg

@trig Well, by your logic that every port would have rail connected to it, every river, at some point in a territory, would have rail somewhere connected to it, no?

@trig Excellent! I looked over the map for jumps and totally missed all these! TY, sir!

@captainnapalm
Some Questions About Rail:

1. I was only able to see one “jumping” territory: Zuryenia (NE of Moscow). Say the Germans hold Gorky, Zuryenia, and Vyatka, but do not hold Ural or Sibir. In order to strategically rail from Gorky to Vyatka, the unit would have to “jump” rail. Do you see other “jumping” territories?

2) Let’s say FEC is lend-leasing an Infantry to Free France that was built at the factory in Calcutta. Japan is blockading Sea Zones 84 and 87, but Sea Zone 85 is clear. Can FEC rail the infantry to Southern India and use the minor port on Sea Zone 85 to send the lend-lease delivery? Note the rail does not connect to that particular minor port.

3) If you strategically bomb rail in a territory, are all rail lines in that territory damaged, or just one particular section? Let’s say you strategically bomb the rail in Belgium. Could you say you are only cutting the very first part of the rail as it enters from the Netherlands? So later, the rail would work from Picardy into Belgium, but not from the Netherlands to Belgium? Would you then have to bomb the Picardy Belgium border if you wanted to prevent that from working? I am beginning to think that strategic bombing rail should work like building rail - you put the damage marker on the border.

@linkler Good point! Ok, that’s helpful!

For most minor facilities, they are allowed to be built anywhere, but there are restrictions on medium and major facilities. Can railroad, fortifications, and coastal artillery be built anywhere?

First, I think facilities in general should only be allowed to be built in friendly land zones (otherwise the Allies could help with the defense of USSR via fortifications).

My second question is about the Commonwealth. Is the Commonwealth restricted to building facilities in only the territories that have their roundel? For example, could Great Britain pay 5/5 to build a fortification in Sydney, or must ANZAC bear the cost?

@delaja said in Peacetime Income Increases via D6+3 Instead of D12:

Sure it works well like this. Some people may want to play with less luck. Others want more randomness. Give the US player the choice which system he or she wants to use.

The interesting thing is the peacetime income increases become less and less impactful the later they are. A compromise position might be to do D6+3 for rolls before 1941, then go back to D12’s after that if people like the excitement.

@delaja said in Peacetime Income Increases via D6+3 Instead of D12:

The range is from 12 to 6 (not 11 to 5).
Sure it works well like this. Some people may want to play with less luck. Others want more randomness. Give the US player the choice which system he or she wants to use.

In mathematics, the definition of range is the difference between the highest and lowest possible values, and is a measure of dispersion. https://www.mathsisfun.com/definitions/range-statistics-.html

The high value is 12. The low value is 1. The difference is 11. And you can see the difference between 6 and 1 is 5. One way to find the average of a particular sided die is to take all the possible values (1+2+3+4+5+6=21) and then divide by the number of sides (21/6=3.5). But another possible way when the probability of each side is equal, is to take the range/2 and add that to the minimum value. So the average of a D6 is 5/2 + 1 = 3.5. The average of a D12 is 11/2 + 1 = 6.5.