Why do we need colours on the map at all? Everything is marked with roundels already
Im not arguing that colours should be removed, i just fail to see the point in the above suggestion. The V3 map is pretty good already in this aspect.
on magnetizing the board if you are gluing magnets to your pieces anyway couldn’t you put the map on a piece of sheet metal or custom sized white board?
This is true, however it would be cool to have an option for the map to be printed on this material.
@imperious-leader That may not be the best idea as piece colour for each players piece are not consistent.
@fdr said in Combat movement question?:
do they have the ability to leave that sea zone without any combat occurring or does England stop them in combat?
Yes, as per .5
Or is there a way that Germany with the intention of war, can avoid that navy yet strike with that same force on the same turn?
Apparently You combat move out of the zone, then declare war.
Any improvement that puts information you have to look up on the board in some out of the way fashion has my support.
But other then the aforementioned ones, i cant think of any other reasonable ideas. ( If we wish to include unreasonable ones, how about a map that is made out of a magnetized material?)
My 2 cents:
The eastern european territories part of the Buffer Zone Objective never can count towards Global Communism Objective ; These territories are always “scored” towards the Buffer Zone, just in one case they are scored and provide one VP or in the other they are scored and provide 0 VPs (because not all were conquered.).
Curious, how did you reconcile setup for areas where there are territories that didn’t exist before?
Fortunately, v3 only added territories, so we didn’t have to worry about merging multiple setup units into one.
And most of the new territories are easily distinct, even without lines (which we went in and marked up later).
The most annoying part of it were the facilities, you’ll need enough tokens for facilities to mark up the map, i used 1cmx1cm glass mosaic squares that I stamped letters on. We also assumed that every territory has a minor port, because ill be dammed if i have to set all those up.
How did you reconcile the new terrain features? Do you even use them, since they’re technically optional rules?
I think most of the terrain features are there in v2. I think we skipped on jungles and desert however as they are missing IIRC.
To me that doesn’t mean adding territories on the map. But it might mean that for others.
I think it might include minor things like
As someone who plays v3 on a v2 map, i fully imagine that minor map changes (if we take that at face value) will be not enough to significantly impact playing v4 on a v3 map.
@gen-manstein Because you could “Stun Lock” planes from moving away from a land zone by bombing their airfields. And if you want to get realistic, its easy for a plane to take off, the hard part is landing it in one piece.
Ok this is starting to make sense to me now.
I have one last stickler, though. If the British fleet is in SZ 82, and you have to declare your intent when before entering a zone, doesn’t that mean, the italians cant attack the fleet in SZ82. The moment they are entering 82 from 81, they declare their intent and the Suez closes?
@trig I’m still going to have to disagree. I don’t think movement is done in discrete steps, ie one zone after another, but it’s done all at once (save screening forces). 8.2 states that “A player moves all units that are conducting combat,” you can’t be conducting combat until you are at war with a nation. You are either at war with a nation or you are not; there isnt a middle ground where you a pseudo at war (ie at the end of a combat move but not the beginning). You did say before that escorting is a combat move, and this is true, however in 83 there is no Italian line to escort.
Furthermore an Italian Navy can not combat move into 81, or 82 as no combat is taking place in that zone, those are non-combat moves.
Finally your example breaks down at 3) because according to 0.5 Sharing Zones:
(b) Major Powers that are not at war with each other may freely share sea zones and do not affect each other. There are instances when units that are at war might share a sea zone such as
- When naval units of Major Powers that are not at war suddenly come to war.
In these cases, units do not participate in combat until one power makes a new combat move during combat movement phase against the other units in that zone.
In your example after they move into SZ83, it is too late to declare war and conduct combat as, due to 0.5 they are allowed to share sea zones despite being at war.
As @Didier_de_Dax pointed out “The Attacking player must always announce his intention first”, saying im going to attack that fleet over there is a Declaration of War.
Italy can chose the declare war on the the UK after they move through the canal
After they non-combat move through the canal correct? Italy cant make a combat move through the suez against the UK before declaring war.
Also if they non-combat move into a SZ with a British fleet, they don’t then fight combat, they share sea zones as per .7
A couple of more
Unlike traditional board games, GW36 doesnt come as a self contained set. It comes with just the map, and then you have to assemble the playing pieces yourself, which is recommended by cannibalizing Global40 and building the new GW36 units buy makeing further purchases from HBG, Iwillnevergrowup, shapeways etc.
Here is a link to their “top level” of global war 36: https://www.historicalboardgaming.com/Global-War-1936v3_c_1293.html
Have you looked at any youtube guides on how to build the game, they explain it better than i do.
@hbg-gw-enthusiast said in Lightning War Question:
Question 2: If you are using optional rule 10.2, then yes.
Doesnt there need to be an airbase there?
One thing you can do is for the preceding turns, save your income. Then once they declare war, you have a fat wad of cash to buy cheap militia and cheap infantry to blunt their momentum…
Home depot has some good options, I was able to get this HDX 65-Compartment 5-in-1 Small Parts Organizer for 7 bucks on sale. I should have gotten more.
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If Russia attacks a neutral Finland, without signing the Molotov-Ribentrop pact, Finland aligns to Germany, or becomes controlled by Germany, depending on whether Germany and Russia are at war.
Because it easier to deal with and conquer a controlled Finland (when Germany is busy on the western front) and then a German attack, then both at the same time.
@jan-aerts I too don’t see the value in signing the pact. It doesn’t really benefit the USSR too much comparatively, sure signing it gives the USSR 6 IPP and a free tech roll (which IMO they dont really need), however it does give German 5 IPP per turn and itll give them 5 infantry in Finland (which is worth another 15 IPP) and a Coastal Def Ship; this also opens up another front. Not signing it also give the following upsides:
However it may be of benefit if it looks like Germany is going in another direction, if he is trying to go for a sealion.
