Regarding the Chinese territories controlled by Japan at the start of the game, I place Japan control markers on those territories when I set the board up. It’s a big help for me when one of those is liberated and the Japan marker removed as, later on, I quickly know who controls it at a glance. If Japan re-captures it, I place the marker back.
How much can be bled? Convoy disruption question.
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Scotland and London.
Sz109 services both Scotland and London and has a convoy zone marker - it can be bled 8 IPC’s if under convoy disruption.
Sz119 services Scotland and has a convoy zone marker - and it can be bled 2 IPC’s if under convoy disruption.
The question is, if I have 4 subs in Sz119 and 1 sub in Sz109, is Britain bled 10 IPC’s?
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No, only 8.
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8, although the rulebook seems not all water tight about it…
edit:
actually, might be 10…
“each disrupted convoy can’t lose more IPC’s than the total IPC value of controlled territories or islands adjacent to the sea zone”“zone”, not plural, so…
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Hmm…we’ve been playing it as 10. Could be wrong, though.
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Exactly my point…
LOL imagine collecting - IPC’s? That would be interesting… you LOSE that unit to pay your bills!
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UK can lose only 2 IPCs from sea zone 119, as it only touches Scotland. It can lose 8 IPCs from sea zone 109, as it touches both Scotland and United Kingdom.
4 subs in sea zone 119 and 1 sub in sea zone 109 will result in a reduction in income of 4 IPCs for UK. However, 4 subs in sea zone 109 and 1 sub in sea zone 119 would result in a reduction in income of 10 IPCs. In any case, income may not be reduced below zero.
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So in theory you can take 4 from Greece too, and 2 from Syria?
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Yes.
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Damnit, if only I had known that last game, I would have made England pay that much more!
EDIT*
No, only 8.
I am glad that this is not the official ruling, Having the ability to ultra-reduce a countries income with subs add’s more depth to strategic gameplay. Especially for Germany.
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what??
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don’t worry too much about this scenario actually fully happening.
Germany needs to buy plenty of subs for this bleeding operation (less IPC’s going to russia), and they know a sub fleet (in 109) can be taken with 1 DD + lots of aircraft (which can’t get hit, so Allies risk only a DD).But if there are no planes in UK, thàt is a whole different story
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But if there are no planes in UK, thàt is a whole different story
That’s part of the strategy :) And how can they build planes? When their income is sub 20.
And who said the Germans would be the only ones with subs out there?
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italian subs? kinky!
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Tasty is a better description :)
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how the hell can you bock resources that are already blocked?
how can scotland be blocked for 4 IPC???
it’s madness i tell you…and i already thought there were far to many convoys in the game…
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Yes.
that can’t be possible
please put it in errata, or ask harry
but if you start to lose money in this game by taking territories (eg, Greece gets subtracted 4 IPC every round), than there’s something wrong…
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