@vontysk:
Not to question your wisdom, but in the rulebook it says tanks can "blitz by moving through an unoccupied hostile territory as the first part of a move that can end in a friendly or hostile territory.
So in the above situation it could go Bessarabia to Romania, then to USSR controlled Eastern Poland (ie going to a hostile territory, and then on to a friendly one.) Or it could go Bessarabia to Romania, then on to a UK controlled Yugoslavia, or on to a German contolled Yugoslavia. Why can’t it carry on to a Pro-Allies Neutral Yugoslvia?
Blitzing is fundamentally different from any other type of movement. Blitzing occurs ONLY as a combat move where a tank (or a tank & mech inf) moves into an unoccupied enemy territory and takes control of it before moving out of it to anywhere else during the same combat move.
Moving two spaces with a tank during noncombat is not called “blitzing”. That’s why a mech infantry can move two spaces by itself during noncombat, but into only one hostile space during combat (or 2, if accompanied by a tank, allowing it to “blitz”.)
So no, you cannot blitz a hostile territory and THEN take control of a friendly neutral, as you can
A) only move a unit in EITHER combat or noncombat, not both
B) blitz ONLY as a combat move
C) take control a friendly neutral ONLY during noncombat.