How is this battle scenario resolved?

@smallprint76 said in Is Northern Ireland considered connected to Sea Zone 9?:

@panther

Thanks for your response.

I was kind of coming to the conclusion that Northern Ireland was not connected to SS9 on my own but good to get clarification. Makes sense, due to the way the map is drawn and the fact that you can’t go through neutral territories (Ireland).

Yes, indeed.

Follow on question would then be are N.Ireland and UK considered same game space.

Yes

On board they look like they are almost touching. But assume you can take a ship through Irish straits.

Yes, sea zones 6 and 8 are adjacent.

So do you have to move troops to Northern Ireland using a transport?

No, Northern Ireland is not a separate territory.

And if someone attacked UK would NI units be considered part of battle?

Yes, Northern Ireland is not a separate territory.

@superbattleshipyamato

It’s a general concept of every A&A game (at least those on a Global scope, also 1940 Europe and 1940 Pacific).

@drice_new

I was confused by the rules for a while regarding that. I thought it was each group (all units that hit a 1, all units that hit at 2) roll for all the units.

When I moved on to Global 1940 and brought that mistake with me, it led to a problem where 12 US bombers (give or take) were unable to sink a Japanese fleet of 1 aircraft carrier, 1 destroyer, 2 fighters, and 1 battleship.

I figured it out later on, and I’ve been playing correctly for a year.

@leebear

Yeah, well, there’s nothing rose in terms of accuracy. I’m waiting on people’s responses on the accuracy of War Room and Global War before thinking about purchasing them.

Once you start unloading troops anywhere, the transport stops moving. You don’t have to unload everything on board, but anything you do offload must be placed in the same territory. The rules explicitly prohibit your intent to invade Japan and Manchuria at the same time.

Page 28, A&A '41 Rule Book: “Once a transport offloads, it cannot move again on that turn. If a transport retreats, it cannot offload that turn. A transport cannot offload units into two territories during a single turn, nor can it offload cargo onto another transport.”

If you have two transports, that would be different. One could offload in Manchuria while the other offloads in Japan.

Many players play with house rules. You and your group could have a house rule that 1 transport can offload onto 2 different territories. But that not be what the rules that came with the game tell you to do.

Does that help?

-Midnight_Reaper

Thanks for the help and thank you!

@Grumphrey:

Bonus: Why do each of the axis only get one Industrial Complex at the beginning compared to 2-3 for each ally?

Some belated thoughts on the above.

The UK could not possibly defend its global territories from London. So additional ICs are essential if the axis are to be resisted.

The US has to project its power across the Atlantic and/or the Pacific. This strategic choice is left open by having an IC on each coast, rather then the US’s focus being predetermined by IC placement. One of the interesting conundrums of the game is the balance of US deployment between its two spheres of activity, so hooray for both ICs!

Japan would benefit considerably from an Asian IC (in expanded versions of the game Japan is able to build such an IC). The lack of one forces Japan to maintain a fleet able to protect its transports and when possible capture India or Stalingrad. This also makes the US Pacific naval role more critical.

The Australia IC has never played a significant role for the UK or Japan in any of my games. A naval build there in the teeth of J’s superior fleet in unlikely, an air build will rarely be affordable and a land build will probably be stranded.

Russia’s Stalingrad IC is, however, more of an opportunity for Germany or Japan than a help for Russia. Stalingrad becomes a strategic focus for all sides as an axis build capability there ratchets up the threat to Moscow.

So - except for the Australia IC - I would say the allocation of ICs drives the game, creating threats and opportunities that make the game so multi-faceted. Well done to the designers! 8-)