Is Germany at war with China? and vice versa?

  • Official Q&A

    Germany would get it.


  • WOW!   So someone really dropped the ball then when they painted those Chinese territories yellow instead of leaving them chinese and putting Japanese roundels on the territory’s at setup.  This ruling confims it if Germany can’t liberate those territories for Japan.  I sure hope in a year or two when the rules are finalized Larry lets current game owners buy a new copy of the board with updated information at a reduced cost.  That’s one of the things that is hard for us to create on our own, the little models and the big board.

  • Official Q&A

    The colors indicate which power controls a territory at the beginning of the game.  The emblems indicate who the original controller of the territory is for all purposes where original ownership is relevant.  If a territory is your color, but doesn’t have your emblem, put one of your control markers on it at the start of the game.  The colors are relevant only during setup.

    Confusing?  Maybe.  However, it is consistent.

  • Liaison TripleA '11 '10

    So even though German and China were -allies- during the war,  they can only be at war or neutral during the game?  And China can’t be coerced as an independant player to thwart a SOVIET invasion?

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    http://www.uglychinesecanadian.com/?p=3309  Here’s the PRESIDENT of China’s son, in uniform during training.

    Instead of an “awkward” peace deal for Russia and Japan, it should be a peace deal between China and Japan ! :D :D :D


  • @Gargantua:

    So even though German and China were -allies- during the war,  they can only be at war or neutral during the game?  And China can’t be coerced as an independant player to thwart a SOVIET invasion?

    :(

    :(

    :(

    http://www.uglychinesecanadian.com/?p=3309  Here’s the PRESIDENT of China’s son, in uniform during training.

    Instead of an “awkward” peace deal for Russia and Japan, it should be a peace deal between China and Japan ! :D :D :D

    Germany and China weren’t allies.  And any agreements that did exist were superseded politically by the agreement with Japan.  (Of course, German and Japan weren’t the closest of allies, either, but that’s a separate issue.)

  • Liaison TripleA '11 '10

    This is a game of alternate history, shouldn’t you be able to do whatever you want, where the rules don’t clarify any agrements?  Much like Russia and Japan? :D :D :D :D


  • @Gargantua:

    This is a game of alternate history, shouldn’t you be able to do whatever you want, where the rules don’t clarify any agrements?  Much like Russia and Japan? :D :D :D :D

    It’s a game of alternate history based on the historical situation of WWII.  It tries to be historically plausible.  And Germany choosing China as an ally over Japan isn’t plausible at all.


  • What I dont understand is that if China and Germany start the game neutral and neither power declares war on the other, then why are they considered on oppsites sides of a conflict instead of just neutral?

    I thought that the game needed an express declaration of war from one power to another in order for them to be at war, which was either spoken between the 2 powers or demonstrated through an attack by one power against the other, is this not correct?

  • Official Q&A

    Neither China nor Germany starts the game neutral.  A neutral power is one which is at war with no one.  China is at war with Japan, and Germany is at war with UK/ANZAC and France.

    Because of these situations, China is on the Allies side, and Germany is on the Axis side.  Even though China and Germany are not at war with each other, they are still on opposite sides of the conflict because China is at war with Germany’s ally and Germany is at war with China’s allies.


  • @Krieghund:

    Neither China nor Germany starts the game neutral.  A neutral power is one which is at war with no one.  China is at war with Japan, and Germany is at war with UK/ANZAC and France.

    Because of these situations, China is on the Allies side, and Germany is on the Axis side.  Even though China and Germany are not at war with each other, they are still on opposite sides of the conflict because China is at war with Germany’s ally and Germany is at war with China’s allies.

    THWOKK

    Nailed it!

    Still think the DOW system needs to be rethought and more streamlined.

  • Liaison TripleA '11 '10

    well this is why the game “Should” have been - Axis / Allies / Comintern

    That would have solved all the balance problem, and diplomacy would have been just as important as war. :P


  • I am so glad I brought this thread back up.  :mrgreen:

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