Posts made by insaneHoshi

Russia can just buy and rail an AAA gun and attack with that.

@noneshallpass

Catan

To be fair, catan is widely considered a flawed game due to how the outcome of the came is entirely dependent on randomness.

OT it might just be easier to have a 2d6 roll instead of 1d12 roll for income increases. You already have some nations rolling d6s anyways.

Can you bomb the channel ports in Picardy and Belgium and disable their use?

@delaja I think, simply put, resolving retreats after all combat is finished would resolve those issues. If you try to retreat to a zone that is not occupied, the retreat fails and those units are eliminated. Adds a bit of counterplay to this rule.

Thanks for you post, but i wanted to clear something up

@noneshallpass said in The FAQ Thread:

if the British plane in the Sea zone is on Maritime Air Patrol (MAP), then it will be ignored since MAP only engages enemy naval units (Rule 8.7).

I dont think thats true, aircraft on MAP has the option to engage enemy naval units. They are engaged by air units as normal.

Complicated question ahead.

Aircraft must save enough movement points to return to a friendly land zone or carrier during non-combat movement phase

Is the determination of if there is “enough” movement points remaining calculated during the state of the game during combat movement, or a future state where blockers may not exist. Can an air transport take a circuitous route (since the direct route is blocked by an enemy fighter) and say they are taking the direct route back assuming the blocking fighter is destroyed.

For example, If there was a German Medium Bomber in Paris (with an airbase), and an hostile british fighter in the english channel, can the German Bomber bomb the factory in London by moving Paris ->Normandy->SZ26->Midlands-> London and say it would return by london->english channel->Normandy for a total of six movement with the assumption the fighter would be killed in a separate battle. OR can they not make that move because there is no guarentee that fighter will be killed.

If you want to houserule something you could probably do something like

Defending units may, on any combat round, forgo rolling to retreat to an adjacent land zone. This move occurs once all combat is resolved. If there is no available land zone, these units are eliminated.

@linkler I think the way it works is that you cant non-combat move through a zone with a submarine except in the case of you have forced the submarine to submerge using MAP, if you did that, your transport can non combat move through since you can share sea zones with a submerged sub as per 0.5.

Also i think any movement that may result in combat, is combat movement.

@jon-b said in Declaration or war during an opponent’s non-combat movement:

Would the British fleet have to stop in the sea zone with the Italian ships when the declaration of war is made?

Nope it could freely move out

Another thought, if the British are making a combat move through the sea zone of the neutral Italians, but the Italians end up declaring war, wouldn’t the move of the British into that sea zone now be considered a combat move since the ships are entering a hostile sea zone?

I dont think they would, since a “new combat move” needs to be made for the units in that zone to fight. The only way the italians could fight the fleet is if they DOW before the combat move.

@jon-b I think the keyword is “New Combat Move,” so no it wouldn’t occur.

The only way i see it could force the British navy to fight, would be if there was a combat occuring in the zone the italian fleet is at.

Combat does not occur. See section 0.5. Nations are allowed to share sea zones when at war under certain conditions, the first being

“When naval units of Major Powers that are not at war suddenly come to be at war.”
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In these cases, units do not participate in combat until one power makes a new combat move during the combat movement phase against the other units in that zone. Either side can move out of the zone freely without triggering an attack.

@vondox Yes, that is true for majors but minors have no home country.

While we are talking about it, other LL questions.

• If LL is begun to a controlled minor power is at war, say france to Abyssinia, and then the abyssinians win the war, does the LL still get delivered?
• If two powers are sharing the same turn, say USA and KMT, and USA begins LL, then KMT takes a territory (that is their home country), can that LL be delivered to the conquered territory?

When Lend Leasing to a controlled minor, what territories can you deliver to? Minors dont have a home country, so for nations like the Dutch, can they recieve LL anywhere?

@noneshallpass i find it weird why they needed to even have the second sentence there. The “or later” seems to render the other half superfluous.

@linkler @Trig

But that first sentence must refer to just the pacific islands right? Otherwise would it not be saying the USA can not build facilities before 35 IPP?

@theveteran

When ahead, get more ahead.

Burma Road Opening.

When does the burma road open. I have always been a bit confused by the wording:

The Burma Road opens July 1938 or later if Japan is at war with KMT. If not at war with Japan by July 1938 it opens at the start of the next calendar turn KMT and Japan are at war

Im kinda confused what the 2nd sentence is supposed to be saying.

Island Nations and Blockade Loophole:

Japan and Great Britain are Island Nations and can not loose IPP to convoy raiding when their island is blocaded.

A blockade is defined in 8.11 is

If you have three or more surface warships in a sea zone, they blockade all enemy naval facilities in that sea zone…

And example of combat movement is blockading.

So the loophole is as follows: Say Britain is blockaded at the start of the german turn. Can Germany:

• Move a ship out of that zone in combat movement, thus unblockading GB, raid their convoy lines, and then non-combat move back into the zone to reactivate the blockade?
• Move a ship out of that zone in combat movement, thus unblockading GB, and then declare a combat move with another ship into the zone, raid their convoy lines, and then resolve the combat move back into the zone to reactivate the blockade?

An obvious answer may be that blocading is a combat move, which causes the blockade to engage in the combat movement phase. But this begs the question: Do you specifically need to declare a combat move to blockade and can the ships involved participate in any other combat movement? I think if you say that blocading is specifically a combat movement action, one would think that if those ships are participating in any other sort of combat, they cant blockade. Would this also mean that a nation would only have too eliminate the blockading fleet (well reduce them to < 3 ships) even if there was another enemy fleet present in that zone (which did something else in its combat move)?

It doesnt matter, that zone is a city and thus forts and coastal arty cover all adjacent zones

During German Lightning War, can they strategic rail move twice?