@robson

I’m a relatively newbie too, but here’s my take:

1. The text of the CCP reference sheet is “. . . If the roll is less than or equal to the total number of land zones the CCP Possesses, all remaining land zones and military units of that warlord align with CCP immediately.” That indicates that all the zones (plural) belonging to that warlord join the CCP.

2. Do you mean ‘peacetime income’? If so then the UK income level is immediately adjusted on the tracking chart, but they don’t actually receive any cash in hand yet.

3. Unless I’m missing a nuance the answer is the same as above. The ‘(once)’ on the reference sheet is merely to differentiate a Germany declaration of war against France (an event that can only happen once), vs something like Japan building a battleship (an event than happen multiple time and which will each earn an income increase for the US)

4. My understanding is that they are separate combats (but could kinda go hand in hand). During your combat movement phase you would move your carpet bombers in to to the targeted zone. Additionally you could move in invading ground and air units. Two separate combats are in play. . . but the attacker gets to decide which one takes place first. (rules section 9.1 “The Attacking player decides in which order the declared combats are resolved.”) Theoretically you could do the carpet bombing AFTER the invasion, but that would be pretty silly.

@robson

I’m a relatively newbie too, but here’s my take:

1. The text of the CCP reference sheet is “. . . If the roll is less than or equal to the total number of land zones the CCP Possesses, all remaining land zones and military units of that warlord align with CCP immediately.” That indicates that all the zones (plural) belonging to that warlord join the CCP.

2. Do you mean ‘peacetime income’? If so then the UK income level is immediately adjusted on the tracking chart, but they don’t actually receive any cash in hand yet.

3. Unless I’m missing a nuance the answer is the same as above. The ‘(once)’ on the reference sheet is merely to differentiate a Germany declaration of war against France (an event that can only happen once), vs something like Japan building a battleship (an event than happen multiple time and which will each earn an income increase for the US)

4. My understanding is that they are separate combats (but could kinda go hand in hand). During your combat movement phase you would move your carpet bombers in to to the targeted zone. Additionally you could move in invading ground and air units. Two separate combats are in play. . . but the attacker gets to decide which one takes place first. (rules section 9.1 “The Attacking player decides in which order the declared combats are resolved.”) Theoretically you could do the carpet bombing AFTER the invasion, but that would be pretty silly.

@delaja I like your idea! But I’m going to propose a slight modification to the players of my current game. It should be impassible during winter turns and treated as marsh during the summer turns. We’ll see how that works.

@trig Thanks for you input. Yeah, we wanted to go ‘all in’ on the optional rules this time, but it definitely feels like the tundra rules could use more polish.

I did double-check the German Operations Expansion and we are looking at the v.3 rules. I’m guessing that maybe that slipped through the updating.

The Iceland thing isn’t likely to be too important for our game, but I think its important we figure something out for Alaska. I think we’ll have a little chat this evening for figure out acceptable house rules for this.

We are playing a game using all the optional terrain rules as well as the German Special Operations expansion and we’ve run into a couple situations where we need to understand how tundra works. There isn’t much in the rules. As far as I can tell the only relevant text is

“1.13 Tundra/Ice [Optional Rule]:
Some northern land zones have tundra and ice.
These land zones are impassable and cannot be
moved into by land units. Air units can fly over this
terrain but cannot end their movement there.”

1. Is there a difference between ice and tundra? This seems to suggest that, despite a visual difference on the map, there is no functional difference between the two.

2. Greenland’s coast appears to be non-ice mountain terrain. Am I seeing that wrong? Can ground troops be stationed on Greenland?

3. Iceland, however, appears to be entirely tundra. Does that mean that an amphibious invasion in impossible? If so, then we are confounded by section 1.4 of the German Special Operations expansion which indicates the possibility of invading Iceland.

“Seelöwe. Operation Sealion was Germany’s code name for the invasion of the United Kingdom. The following supplemental plans were intended to reinforce the main landing. Must conduct a landing in England and at least one of Iceland, Ireland, or Scotland.”

4. The northern coastal borders of USSR and Canada, as well as the northern and western border of Alaska are tundra. Does that mean that those territories are immune from amphibious invasion across those coastlines?

5. Are troops prevented from being non-combat moved from those territories to naval transport in the sea (because they’d have to move across the tundra border?).
   a. Specifically In the case of Alaska I want to ultimately move US troops into Russian territory. Can I rail deploy them along the river that empties into the sea as I load them into the transport?

6. Can a facility be built in a tundra zone?
   a. The rules state that air units can’t land there. This would eliminate the useful of an airfield there. . . unless an airfield overrides that prohibition.
   b. A port could conceivably be useful. Some expansion allow for facilities in Antarctica (base 221, sub base, etc.) but I’m not sure that that is allowed ONLY for those expansion of if a sub base could be built there without the expansion. Also, Antarctica isn’t tundra so it isn’t quite an apple-to-apples comparison.

Thanks for any help guys!