[House Rules] Keeping China Alive?

The rules as you state them are correct.  The only way you wouldn’t be able to load and then unload a transport on the same turn is when you load your units on to one of your allies transports then you must wait until the next turn to unload them.  I think if transports worked the way you wanted them to industrial complexes would become very popular in this game.

Have anyone played 1941-double blind (one vs one with a third person as a referee - only your own units and units in adjacent territories are visible. Referee will set up newly seen units when they come in range)?

If this has been tried already, then which rules have you used? We will let normal planes do recon missions instead of their attacks and if they pass fighters or aa-guns they risk being killed.

Ideally the fog of war should give the allies a small advantage to even out the normal bid.

Is there any great ideas out there?

Ghostglider

Oh wow I overlooked that :-o and will definitely remember that from now on.  My group and I never played it correctly then even though it probably would have only mattered like twice.  Usually we had allied units in originally controlled Russian territory then it was obvious.  Thanks for the heads up.

Absolutely correct, Battlingmaxo.  This concept is illustrated by the transport combat example in the FAQ.

I agree as Russia i’d prefer the axis to take the ‘northern’ path so to speak as there are fewer IPCs there for me to loose, it is further from Moscow, and most importantly, UK can liberate it for me.  The only bad thing is it keeps me from taking Finland.

Moscow is the goal, and Karelia is a distraction.  I’d rather counter Ukraine on R1 honestly.

I have no problem sending up to 5 infantry, 1 armor to China to stop Japan. (20 IPC) it only helps, however, if China can eek out at least one infantry a round themselves!

I do still find humorous the idea of sending 14 Russian Armor into China!  That would be a lark of epic proportions and I may actually do it one game just to see my opponent die of apoplectic shock at seeing the doors to Moscow open up to Germany by end round 3!