The FAQ Thread

[VonDox]

@noneshallpass I have to agree with this. Sometimes you just have to let years of A&A gaming kick in and even though the rules say you can’t… it clearly does not say you CAN. I sort of rationalize these attrition attacks to a prepared position that has ample artillery ammunition and supplies to sustain what would have been a tremendous expenditure of ammunition. Now, you are asking for those artillery units to move an entire land zone, with the ammunition and then conduct a barrage. I think it’s either or., if you have SP artillery you can move 2 and then enter into combat with the other ground/air units. OR you can you sit in the land zone you are in and conduct an attrition attack on the adjacent land zone. Just my thinking… I don’t think the game creators had a vision of SP artillery or mobile infantry towed artillery moving 2 land zones and THEN attacking a land zone ( 3 land zones now ) from their original position? Do you?

[Trig]

@HBG-GW-Enthusiast
The FAQ is up on two questions:

Q: Are the Bering sea and Hudson Bay sea zones adjacent?

A: No

Q: Do Island Nations (Great Britain and Japan) count as blocaded if their remaining naval facilities are damaged?

A: No.

[HBG GW Enthusiast]

@trig said in The FAQ Thread:

Q: Do Island Nations (Great Britain and Japan) count as blockaded if their remaining naval facilities are damaged?

A: No.

This is an important clarification!

[TheVeteran]

@trig regarding the militia question: from the FAQ -
"can you place the two militia from a successful recruitment roll in two different land zones?
A. yes

[insaneHoshi]

During German Lightning War, can they strategic rail move twice?

[HBG GW Enthusiast]

@insanehoshi said in The FAQ Thread:

During German Lightning War, can they strategic rail move twice?

Page 46, 10.4 Strategic Rail Movement, “Regions of the map have different rail capacity defined as the number of units each player can strategic rail move each turn.”

I would say no, because the limits on strategic rail moves are not per phase, but per turn. The tricky question is, could you strategic rail move on the first non-combat phase? Looking over the rules, I guess you could!

[Trig]

@hbg-gw-enthusiast
@insaneHoshi
I would say yes, as it is a noncombat move, and you do noncombat movement phase twice. Most “per turn” stuff goes out the window with lightning war.

[insaneHoshi]

Island Nations and Blockade Loophole:

Japan and Great Britain are Island Nations and can not loose IPP to convoy raiding when their island is blocaded.

A blockade is defined in 8.11 is

If you have three or more surface warships in a sea zone, they blockade all enemy naval facilities in that sea zone…

And example of combat movement is blockading.

So the loophole is as follows: Say Britain is blockaded at the start of the german turn. Can Germany:

• Move a ship out of that zone in combat movement, thus unblockading GB, raid their convoy lines, and then non-combat move back into the zone to reactivate the blockade?
• Move a ship out of that zone in combat movement, thus unblockading GB, and then declare a combat move with another ship into the zone, raid their convoy lines, and then resolve the combat move back into the zone to reactivate the blockade?

An obvious answer may be that blocading is a combat move, which causes the blockade to engage in the combat movement phase. But this begs the question: Do you specifically need to declare a combat move to blockade and can the ships involved participate in any other combat movement? I think if you say that blocading is specifically a combat movement action, one would think that if those ships are participating in any other sort of combat, they cant blockade. Would this also mean that a nation would only have too eliminate the blockading fleet (well reduce them to < 3 ships) even if there was another enemy fleet present in that zone (which did something else in its combat move)?

[HBG GW Enthusiast]

@insanehoshi You are an evil monster, Hoshi! I never want to play against you!!!

[TheVeteran]

@hbg-gw-enthusiast yea I think he really wants to rub it in when he is winning!

[HBG GW Enthusiast]

@theveteran said in The FAQ Thread:

@hbg-gw-enthusiast yea I think he really wants to rub it in when he is winning!

He’s got you pinned down with his foot on your throat, but then he starts talking about your sister…

and your mom…

and your Grandma!!!

[HBG GW Enthusiast]

@hbg-gw-enthusiast Hoshi’s will to win: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UceGF3M56bE

[TheVeteran]

@hbg-gw-enthusiast that’s rough

[HBG GW Enthusiast]

[insaneHoshi]

Burma Road Opening.

When does the burma road open. I have always been a bit confused by the wording:

The Burma Road opens July 1938 or later if Japan is at war with KMT. If not at war with Japan by July 1938 it opens at the start of the next calendar turn KMT and Japan are at war

Im kinda confused what the 2nd sentence is supposed to be saying.

[insaneHoshi]

@theveteran

When ahead, get more ahead.

[gnomegrabbin]

The earliest it can open is July '38, but it requires a state of war between Japan and KMT. If Japan and KMT are not at war in July '38, then the next turn in which they arw at war the Burma Road will open.

[Noneshallpass]

Really bad wording for this rule.

If Japan and KMT are at war, Burma road opens in July 1938.

If they are not yet at war in July 1938, then the road will open on the very next turn after there is a state of war between them.

In practice, it is usually July 1938 as Japan will not wait that long to expand in China. Economic cooperation sphere and all…

[insaneHoshi]

@noneshallpass i find it weird why they needed to even have the second sentence there. The “or later” seems to render the other half superfluous.

[insaneHoshi]

When Lend Leasing to a controlled minor, what territories can you deliver to? Minors dont have a home country, so for nations like the Dutch, can they recieve LL anywhere?