If a plane that was landed on a carrier at the beginning of a turn moved one to a fight. The carrier was lost in the fight. Does the plane have 3 left or 1?
@Cmdr:
You cannot kill them all, if you do, how will you gloat?
Oh yeah. You have to leave some of them alive so you can point and say “Nyah, nyah, we beat you.”
Regarding the Chinese territories controlled by Japan at the start of the game, I place Japan control markers on those territories when I set the board up. It’s a big help for me when one of those is liberated and the Japan marker removed as, later on, I quickly know who controls it at a glance. If Japan re-captures it, I place the marker back.
@taamvan:
It certainly isn’t useless, because it forces your opponent to consider what could happen when you use them, which leads him to leave his carriers behind, which during sea battles, are awesome for soaking up free hits. Its also “piling on” since japan doesn’t usually need the kami to defend the homeland (it can do it fine the conventional sea/land way up until the climatic battle) but it still gets it.
I said next to useless, in a huge naval engagement sure you get 3 extra hits before combat but that isnt as game changing as the dice are in these situations.
For defence well the allied player just sends air + transports and it can non combat the fleet later, and if you put a big enough fleet there then its just a big naval battle with 3 hits before combat ( if your lucky )
It can be usefull if you have a sub in SZ6 as then you can kami the destroyers and then suddenly the transport isnt escored anymore and cannot unload ( but no combat so no retreat either )
You’re right. Partial retreats are not allowed. The only exception is in amphibious assaults, where air units and land units that arrived by land may retreat, leaving the amphibious units to fight on alone.
