Posts made by Krieghund

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@oysteilo and @surfer are correct. Per pages and 39 of the Europe Rulebook, when the Mongolian territories become Soviet in this way, they are treated in the same way as taking control of a friendly neutral territory.

@yazoinkergrapft Yes, the United States is allowed to declare war. If it does, the sea zone immediately becomes hostile, as there are enemy surface warships in it. However, since the United States is not declaring war until the Collect Income phase, during the Combat Move, Conduct Combat, and Noncombat Move phases the sea zone is still friendly, so the United States can still occupy it freely. On Japan’s next turn, its units in the sea zone will be starting the turn in an enemy-occupied sea zone, so the normal rules for that situation apply (those units must either move away in combat movement or attack).

@Suppressmeajumma They cannot do so in combat movement, but they can in noncombat movement.

@Overkill All of the above are different. The 1941 board has fewer territories and industrial complexes, and the IPC values are generally lower.

As far as buying 1941, it’s not very expensive, and it has several sculpts that are different from the other games. If you’re into that sort of thing, you may want to consider picking it up.

@Suppressmeajumma Air units may overfly a formerly strict or unfriendly neutral territory in the Noncombat Move phase of the same turn in which it was attacked, as it is no longer neutral at that point.

@gamerman01 I think you may have misunderstood the question. Germany is doing the combat movement, so Rostov (being controlled by UK) is a hostile territory, and it is a blitzing move.

@simon33 The answer is no. As mechanized infantry can blitz only when they are paired with a tank for their entire movement (see page 29 of the Rulebook), the ones in Ukraine and Bryansk must stop in Rostov and may not continue on to Caucasus.

@vodot Added.

Updated for Stalingrad.

@gamerman01 They do not. Per page 20 of both the Europe and Pacific Rulebooks, “If you capture an air base or naval base, you can’t use the added flight or sea movement or receive repairs until your next turn.”

@Stucifer said in League General Discussion Thread:

I do think G42 which is unofficially Larry Harris 1940 Global 3rd edition is very interesting to play especially given the constraints of live tournament play.

As it changes the start date, it is actually a variant, not a separate edition.

@Screamer Yes, it’s possible. The only way the fighters could get out would be through Persia (if not still neutral), as they can’t fly over a neutral territory.

@oysteilo No, they are not adjacent to each other. Per page 8 of the Europe Rulebook, “Spaces that meet only at a point (such as United Kingdom and sea zone 111) are not adjacent to one another, as they do not share a common border.”

@thecabal The effect it would have is that the player taking casualties would know the results of all of the dice rolls before deciding on casualties. Using the actual rules, they have to choose casualties from each column’s results without knowing what the results of the remaining columns will be.

@thecabal Using Hit Dice does not change the rules of the game. In Classic, you still need to roll the dice one column at a time.

@DoManMacgee There is always playtester (and staff) turnover between projects. That is not the reason for this issue. I can’t comment on what the reason was, other than to say it was not the playtesters, and I’m saying this much only because I don’t like to see them unjustly criticized.

@DoManMacgee said in Axis & Allies Stalingrad: Early Review and Balance Impressions:

From what I understand, playtesting pre-Renegade was done by some combination of Larry, his private staff/team (most of whom went on to form Nightingale Games and are now working on War Room, Imperial Borders, etc.) and internal Hasbro/WotC staff. I don’t know the names or skill levels of any of those people, or how the names/faces changed over the years, but I think that may be part of why you saw games like 42SE, G40 and 1914 (which all seem balanced enough at a low level but becomes lopsided once you start playing more seriously) come out over the latter part of that era of A&A.

There were also external playtesters, many of whom were very skilled, beginning with Revised in 2004. This was no different than it is now, other than perhaps not quite so wide a net being cast, as the communication among the community was not as well organized as it is today.

The philosophy was that the games should be balanced at a low level, as that’s where most of the players are. Doing otherwise would present a barrier to new players that would turn them off to the game. Players at a high level, of which there are fewer, tend to participate in the online community and can obviously use mechanisms such as bidding to balance the game at that level.

@cond1024 It is the same situation that would exist if Leningrad were recaptured by the Allies while Moscow is in Axis hands. If USSR does the recapturing, it cannot collect the income, but if another Allied power does the recapturing that power can collect the income. The only difference is that UK’s territories’ administration is divided between two regional capitals.

@captainwalker The UK Europe economy can never collect IPCs from territories under the UK Pacific economy, and vice versa, even if the regional capital of that economy is held by the Axis. See page 35 of the Europe Rulebook.

@Screamer 1a ) They must leave Russian or shared territories by the end of their next turn or be removed from the board. There are no special restrictions on where they may go (shared territories are not contested), so they may move into enemy or contested territories.

1b ) Yes.

2 ) Correct, it is not.

@crockett36 No, it is not. In the case of Germany and Italy, Germany is at war with UK and France, so it is not neutral (even though it is not at war with the Soviet Union), which allows it to move into territories controlled by Italy. In contrast, in this case the Soviet Union is under the restrictions of a neutral power on the Pacific map, so it cannot move into territories controlled by any other power. The situation is similar, but different.