Multiple rule questions

@Witt

Clear, thanks!

@Driel310 what a great question.
I don’t know .
But Air units and Scout Cars don’t need Supply to defend , so they would remain behind and defend Cairo , by rolling dice.
I have understood that the retreating (have no supply , so must retreat) ground units can be taken as casualties . This would leave the Scout Cars and any Air to shoot back and possibly eliminate the Axis attackers .
Cairo could still be held , therefore .

Not sure if the other Allied combat units that were not Round 1 casualties would be automatically eliminated though .
You would imagine so, if there is no legitimate retreat available (as you have rightly pointed out ).

I am looking forward to the answer .

Lesson of the story: keep Cairo supplied!

@Driel310 If defenders can’t fire and can’t retreat, then they are all destroyed at the end of the current round of combat. If some defending units are self-sufficient, they can stand and fight while the others are destroyed. And those soon-to-be-dead units can be used as casualties in that round of combat only, as they will all be dead when it’s time to retreat and they cannot.
Page 22: “Each <retreating> unit may move to a different territory, but if no eligible territory is available to retreat to, it is destroyed.”

So those Self-Sufficient units can stay alive into another round of combat if there are enough casualties among the retreaters. The Axis might need only 2 rounds of supply to win in this example. But if there are a couple of Scout Cars and Air Units, Cairo might survive only 1-2 attackers.

Many thanks for the clarification.

Cool, glad you got some clarity on the rules!

Can air units attack scout cars in the Sahara Desert?!bolded text

@Jonny5tyle No. Page 32 of the rulebook says that air units “can enter any space, except for impassable and Sahara Desert territories.” Which means they cannot attack them.

@Matt-Hyra thank you for the response and its pretty cool to get it straight from the lead designer!

I just listend to your interivew on Board Game Nation and you actually answered it there so I was just a bit early in my question. It makes sense that a plane finding a small scout car in the middle of desert would be diffcult. You mentioned that would be the case in the interveiw when you visited Morocco and traveled in the Sahara Desert.

My 13-year-old son and I play Axis and Allies and we have all the board games for A&A, except Anniversary. I’ll get that one eventually. We are loving North Africa A&A, so far. It’s really dynamic. Please keep the A&A theater campaigns coming!

Side note, my grandfather fought on the US side in North Africa and Italy.

@Jonny5tyle Thanks for the questions. Glad you like the game. Yes, more to come…

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Can airplanes attack conveys of an opponent that doesn’t have anything to defend with? For example, can an American bomber attack a German convey with only infantry and tanks?

@Jonny5tyle Absolutely.

@Witt So do the two units escape after each round of combat? In other words, the planes roll their dice and after the round of combat two units escape just like in a navy battle?

@Jonny5tyle Yes, if there are any units left in the convoy after the first (and subsequent) round(s) of combat two units escape from the convoy.
This also applies when there is still a normal sea/air battle in progress. Every round that this combat lasts two convoy units escape. But as long as the defender still has combat units left, the units in the convoy cannot be taken as casuality.