@LT04:
1) “Passing the Initiative” Let’s take the first turn for example. Axis go first. They conduct all the battles they would like to conduct. Initiative gets passed to the Allies. Allies conduct all the battles they would like. So here’s where I get stuck. Does the Initiative get passed back to the Axis and so on and so on until no one has any supply tokins or just doesn’t want to attack?
Initiative is passed after each hex’s attacks are resolved. The Axis conducts one or more attacks from a single hex, then the Allies conduct one or more attacks from a single hex, and so on. This goes on until all eligible (and desired) hexes have been activated for attack once, then the phase is over. If one player either no longer wants to or can’t attack, the other just finishes all of his/her attacks.
On the first turn, the Allies can’t attack, so the Axis just activates each of its hexes to attack one after the other until all of the desired and eligible hexes have attacked once each.
@LT04:
- Assigning Hits… Lets say the Hex I’m attacking has 3 INF, 1 ARM, no ART no supplies no trucks. I have to roll a 1-6 to make a hit. Say I roll 3@1, 0@2, 0@3, 0@4, 2@5 and 2@6.
The way I understand it is the 1st INF is creamed. 1 INF has to retreat. No more hits are made to the INF. No hits are made to the ARM. Here’s where I get stuck on this one. since 5 and six are also hits but there are only 4 defending units will
a) 5 = 1 and 6 = 2?
b) 5 = 2 since 1 was already killed and 6 = 3?
c) do those hits get waisted?
The hits wrap around the strips, so 5 = 1 and 6 = 2. The result is that the first infantry got hit five times (three 1s and two 5s) and the second got hit two times (two 6s), and both were eliminated. Additional hits beyond two on the same unit are wasted.
@LT04:
- After the killed defending units are selected do the defending units get to counter like in the main-stream A&A or is that taken care of in the passing of the Initiative?
No, there is no defensive fire. The surviving units will attack when their hex is activated. That’s why initiative is so important and where to attack first is such a strategic decision.