Posts made by leebear

@vonlettowvorbeck1915 A couple of Chinese territories in the original version have dual Japanese and Chinese markers printed on them too.

@axis_roll Or the optional escorts and interceptors rule.

@eisenhower I’m a year late but never mind! Are these game boards that HBG sells actually the out of the box ones or a print on vinyl/plastic?

I should also add that in my opinion, sparsity of components aside, this is a really, really good edition. Other editions have more pieces, more territories, more income, more of everything. This is nice and all but it leads to a long, long, drawn out battle of attrition which ebbs and flows back and forwards interminably. Now, if you are a decades long Axis and Allies devotee, then this may be just what you’re after (it clearly is) and good luck to you but this one is a really neat little take on the game. Because material is so hard to replace, you tend only to attack when you have overwhelming local superiority, which leads to some cat and mouse manoeuvres which are a lot of fun.

Both of the currently fielded destroyers are also away from the deployment area so chips won’t help either.

Well, firstly I happen to love this edition but that’s because I have added 3 times the pieces the game comes with and painted them.
As to your question, lets put it this way; a perfectly reasonable first turn buy for Japan would be a destroyer to bolster its navy but it already fields 2 and that is all the game comes with, so…

@panther
Interesting. Thank you.

If I have a fighter on a carrier and the fighter moves 2 spaces away to attack something and then 2 spaces back to land on the carrier during the non combat movement phase, it has then used all 4 of its movement points. Can that carrier then also move 2 spaces carrying the spent fighter as part of the carriers non combat movement phase?

@panther said in A question about capital taking.:

@leebear Welcome to the forum :slightly_smiling_face:

@leebear said in A question about capital taking.:

If, for example I was playing as Russia and I lost my capital to Germany, I would hand all my IPC’s to Germany and be unable to receive income or build any troops until my capital was liberated.

That is correct.

@leebear said in A question about capital taking.:

If during this time I then somehow managed to use my remaining Russian troops to conquer Berlin (lets assume Germany had bled itself dry taking Moscow) then Germany would have to hand me its IPC’s, which I could not spend? Is that right?

Yes, you are correct, see the rulebook, page 18:

“… For example, if Germany captures Moscow while the Soviet Union’s player is holding 6 IPCs, those IPCs are immediately transferred to Germany’s player. You collect these IPCs even if your own capital is in enemy hands.”

Thanks for the response. I guess they are handy to get you started again if your own capital is liberated.

Hello everyone, I’m new here.
If, for example I was playing as Russia and I lost my capital to Germany, I would hand all my IPC’s to Germany and be unable to receive income or build any troops until my capital was liberated. If during this time I then somehow managed to use my remaining Russian troops to conquer Berlin (lets assume Germany had bled itself dry taking Moscow) then Germany would have to hand me its IPC’s, which I could not spend? Is that right?