Ozteas 1941 is well reviewed. If you’re comfortable with some players being at peace at the start, that is also worth a look. Starts like round 3 of 1940.
Although if you prefer the simplicity of everyone fighting right away, go to g42!
Yes, sure. Its just usually not a good idea (since tacs are poor defenders and are usually being lost without replacement, they need another source of fighters to shine).
Little more clarification on #4–when you liberate a capital (lets use Paris), all of the territory that the allies recaptured from the Axis immediately become French again, blowing off the other Allied markers and all going “blue” except for land that the Axis was holding. So if we say that the Axis owned Southern France and Syria upon liberation, France’s new income at the end of that turn would be 15, but there would be no building or placement of units until the next round (if they live that long).
As you probably read, the Allies can only “liberate” other Allied land if it has been taken by the Axis first. The only exception to this is the Dutch territory, and if you read the rules carefully, only ANZAC and UK can activate these, USA cannot. However, in another twist, all Allied planes can land on these whether they are activated or not.
In practice what this means is that taking Moscow or Paris back just tosses a ton of money back into Axis hands, while taking away the income from USA and UK (primarily) that they fought so hard to liberate. This creates a problem, because the Allies will actively avoid liberating capitals and handing so much cash to the Axis since in most cases, the Axis can easily recapture the key capital zones and control of it would just trade back and forth.
As a result, one sort of universally accepted house rule is to destroy the money rather than give it to the capturing player, after the first capture.
The Allies rarely benefit from capturing a capital, because the Italy economy is usually decimated before the Allies invade, and if you were able to capture Berlin or Tokyo, that’s usually endgame for the Axis if they don’t want to fight on.
An interesting variation on the point; but nothing got paired multiple times at once. Good call.
I refer to both TAC+FIG and ART+MAN as a “combat pair” (or if confusing, “air pair”) when I roll–but that pairing concept 1:1 is the key I think.
At the end of each power’s turn they check to see if there are any enemy warships in convoy zones that border territories controlled by the power in question. So, in your example, at the end of Italy’s turn, they would deduct up to 2 IPC from their income for the US sub present in z97. They cannot lose more income than the total value of territories that Italy controls that border z97. If Italy is under Allies control, the convoy disruption is irrelevant, because Italy does not collect income while it is enemy-controlled. And the new controller would not lose income to a friendly unit (the US sub).
Then, on Germany’s turn, they would lose up to 2 IPC income for the US sub in z97. Again, they can’t lose more than the total value of German controlled territories bordering z97.
So, essentially, the US sub is doing convoy disruption to BOTH Italy and Germany as long as they both control territories that border z97.
@cressman8064:
@Get:
can they build a Minor IC then upgrade it to a Major IC, since the rules do not state anything about upgrading it to a Major IC.
Upgrading a minor to major on foreign soil still counts as building a major, so with the new rules Korea is the only location Japan can build a major anywhere in the world.
Or Japan, assuming it falls and is retaken.
