I’m trying to figure out A&A 1941 and I ran into a couple of questions:
First, if (for example):
During the first combat move phase, Soviet Union wants to attack West Russia with Russia, and at the same time Germany wants to attack Russia with West Russia.
In other words, two opposing territories want to attack each other. In this case, when you start playing out the fight, how do you determine which side is the attacker and which side is the defender if each side wants to be the attacker?
Second, if (for example):
During a combat phase, Japanese transports move into Sea zone 43 to launch and amphibious attack on Midway. If the US player was not originally planning to defend against this, but he can, is he allowed to?
The second question boils down to this: All of the combat moves by all the different countries are supposed to happen at the same time. Therefore, if the US was originally planning to move southward but now he sees that it would be a better move to go northward to defend Midway, is he allowed to change his intended moves based on his knowledge of his opponent’s moves? If so, it seems like this favors the countries who move later because they essentially know exactly what their opponents are planning to do.