• hello,

    i have one question regarding tanks and blitzing.

    is it possible for a tank to move as a combat-move into an empty territory one step and use the another step to go into a friendly territory in the non-combat-movement?

    (possible example: a russian tank from bessarabia goes into an unoccupied romania. after that in the ncm-phase to yugoslavia activating it.)

    thanx in advance

    rock`n roll (the dice!) :-D

  • Official Q&A

    No.  It may not move in both phases.


  • 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?


  • @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.

  • Official Q&A

    What he said.

    @vontysk:

    Why can’t it carry on to a Pro-Allies Neutral Yugoslvia?

    Because Yugoslavia is a friendly neutral territory, not a friendly territory.  Once claimed by an Allied power, it will become friendly, but not before.

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