Dumb sub question….

@Herr: @creeping-deth87: chances are you’re going to lose the battleship you took to the channel in the opening attacks, which leaves your Baltic fleet pretty thin You can also use the battleship for the SZ 111 attack and retreat it after one round. The British are then typically left with a damaged battleship that can’t escape because SZ 111 has no harbor. That is usually where I send the German battleship, SZ 111. My attack on the Channel is all planes and maybe a couple of subs. Although, it has backfired on me when the fighter in Scotland doesn’t scramble and I get very good hits as Germany and end up sinking all the UK ships. Then my poor battleship is stuck all alone in SZ 111. A good part of that scenario is it gives UK another target, but they have to commit planes to sink it (usually at least 2). That’s less UK planes bothering me somewhere else.

@Playing-Kid Indeed that link points to an unrelated old document referring to the 1999 edition. When on the AH-site better visit this place for the latest rules and FAQ: https://avalonhill.wizards.com/rules You will find the correct link to the 1940 2nd ed. FAQ there: http://media.wizards.com/2015/downloads/ah/aaeurope1940_2ndedition_faq.pdf (Still not the latest version, that should be of November 2014, but you can go with it.)

@Arthur: TUV primarily applies to TripleA where the computer can easily add up the value of units on each side, and also runs simulations of battles thousands of time to see if you are killing more valuable units than you have lost yourself.  The Allies start with a 573 TUV advantage and also are out-earning the Axis by a 2:1 advantage.  Obviously the Axis is in a much better starting position than the Allies so the advantage rapidly disappears during the first 5-10 rounds. There is no magic TUV number for the Axis to obtain, but certainly closing the unit advantage gap from 573 down to 300 is a good sign that you have done lots of good battles and improved your economy.  I personally don’t look at the TUV gap and instead focus on the major objectives for each side: capturing Moscow for the European theater and getting India or Australia for the Axis.  Obtain your goals on just one side of the map and you are in good shape regardless of TUV numbers. 1 note to the tripleA thingy. It does count bases and factories as well so many islands in the pacific and some places in the atlantic have a pretty high value that nobody really uses.

3 spaces left to land, it’s only 1 when you’re defending.

@Omega: When one scramble for defense, can you decide to back after one round of fire? (as the defender_ Urgent, we stopped playing -.- Asked and answered in the FAQ thread. You cannot retreat as the defender for any reason.

@Caesar: @ShadowHAwk: @RedIndian: Ok here are another 3 USA : (US in first 3 rounds when not at war) Beside the “No-China-Rule” Are any ships and airplanes of the US allowed to go through seazones which are adjacent to Japan controlled islands? Yes, aren’t they? Unless they don’t park there/ end the movment adjacent to a Japan controlled island or territory, right? I found this a bit weird rule as it also bars US from staging ships near singapore which is a major naval base for the UK. But the rules are the rules It is clear the US cannot attack before turn 4 without being attack is G40’s attempted to get AnA closer to historical actions. US was big about Monroe Doctrine. The bigger question is why USSR cannot attack before Turn 4. I know it’s about the pact between Stalin and Hitler but anyone with a brain knew Stalin was going to attack eventually. I don’t know why you focus on that now but I will give you an answer. Stalin’s plan was to wait until all the other powers have weaken each other, so that the USSR is able to conquer the world easily. (he said this on a party meeting of the communism in the 20’s) Anyone who still says the USSR was nearly or ready to attack the Germans by 1941 is a liar! The Russians weren’t ready (just had their “great purge”) at all. And as I said, they wanted to wait until there would be a chance later on! So to me the rule does make sense. It makes it more historical. And if Germany invades & conquers UK, you have the chance to declare war. (this covers Stalin’s plan to wait, although no one know what happened if…) For the Pacific, the USSR was interested in getting their territories back they had lost years ago against Japan. But they weren’t strong enough at this time to do this without any help. The navy of the Russians in the Pacific wasn’t strong enough to face the Japanese. Since 1932 there were several boarder conflicts between USSR and Japan in the north of Mandchuko. Finally in April 1941 both countries signed the  “Soviet�Japanese Neutrality Pact”. Although many Allied partners of those both countries tried to push them into war with eachother (US the USSR against Japan / Germany Japan against Russia), they never came into war. (Russia needed the troops for Europe, Japan against China, US and all the other pacific campaigns) Ok at the very last days Russia took some territories but only after all other combats in Europe were done! So as a German I can give you the advice, be careful what you’re saying. This argument pushed by other nations until 1980s / 1990s justified the attack of the Germans in June, 22 1941. As some of the German Veterans say. Those people were told this, just to make this attack a right and justified one. They (Nazis) even said, this was a defending attack, although it was planned by Hitler for other purposes. Anything else is “Propaganda” or in Trump’s days “fake news” Historians from different nations proofed this. So no, Stalin doesn’t want to attack Germany that early! Maybe later, but there are no concrete hints for that in comparison to the Nazis.

Right, Holland is treated as an already vanquished non-playable ally, like France. On that note, French territories after Paris falls should be treated in the same way, at least the UK could grab some extra income in West Africa, Madagascar & Syria. Would also encourage Germany to take Normandy. I guess the implication of ‘activating’ friendly neutrals is having to wait for them to fully mobilize. Also not sure why you’d need a combat unit, why can’t an AAA do it? It has a built in support staff and troops.

Hi guys, here are some of my thoughts: 1. Making subs invincible by killing all DDs is a good idea, I played that opener myself back then 2. Buying 5 subs G1 is not the best idea, simply because Germans need ground units against Russia Plus: I Germans leaves 110 untouched then I think it is an appropriate reaction by UK to skip taranto, buy an air base UK1 and put a strong fleet into 92. If played properly that fleet can hammer the Italian fleet earlier or later. Next to that UK should stay calm with the Egypt units an avoid losing Egypt.