• What exactly are the rules for this chunk of land?

    It has no name - is it considered part of the UK and connected to the UK?


  • @Der:

    It has no name - is it considered part of the UK and connected to the UK?

    Yes to both questions.  You can find the same kind of geographically questionable situation elsewhere in A&A; in Global 1940, for example, the physical island of Newfoundland is unnamed and is considered part of “New Brunswick / Nova Scotia”, which is wrong on multiple levels.  Global 1940 obfuscates the issue of whether Northern Ireland (if it had a name on the map, which it doesn’t) is physically connected to Scotland (which it isn’t in real life) by sticking a British roundel on top of the straight between the two land areas.


  • So does this mean I could invade London without transports if I had land units on Eire? Same with G40? It is all considered one space even though actually separated by water?


  • From the 1942.2 rulebook:  “An island or island group is a single territory surrounded entirely by one or more sea zones. A sea zone can contain at most one group of islands, which is considered one territory. It is not possible to split up land-based units so that they are on different islands in the same group.”  The illustration for the rule shows the Japanese home island group, which consists of one large island labeled Japan and three smaller islands with no names.  According to the rule, these must be treated as a single territory, regardless of the fact that they are separated by water.

    In 1942, the large territory labeled United Kingdon and the unnamed territory north of Eire have the same relationship as the large island labeled Japan and three smaller islands with no names: they must be treated as a single territory, regardless of the fact that they are separated by water.  It’s unrealistic, but that’s what the rules say.  So yes, you could invade London without transports if you had land units on Eire – but remember that the “without transports” concept in this case is not a pure no-transport situation because you would have needed transports to get them to Eire in the first place.

    A similar example from the 1940.2 rulebook: “Central America, containing the Panama Canal, is one territory, so
    no land movement is required to cross the canal within Central America.”

    In 1940, the territory that “Northern Ireland” is considered to be a part of is Scotland, not the part of the UK in which London is situated.  So in 1940, an Eire-to-London invasion would be via Scotland, not a direct invasion.


  • Ah…OK thanks!

  • Official Q&A

    The “chunk of land” in question has no name, and is therefore not a game space.  If it were connected to United Kingdom (which it isn’t), the rules for islands wouldn’t apply, as United Kingdom would not then be “a single territory surrounded entirely by one or more sea zones” (Eire would keep it from being so).  In any case, it’s a moot point, as neutral territories may not be entered in this game, and there are no sea zones that touch the unnamed land mass that don’t also touch United Kingdom.

    In 1940, the same land mass is connected to Scotland by virtue of the UK emblem straddling (and obscuring) the sea between them, as CWO Marc pointed out.  In this case, land units can move between Eire and Scotland without the use of transports, and it is relevant, as neutral territories are not off-limits in that game.

    Hope this helps.

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