@newpaintbrush:

@1SG:

Can anyone suggest methods of keeping track of movement points, most specifically for planes.  After multiple combat moves and a few rounds of combat, I found myself forgetting what territories some aircraft came from and how many remaining moves they had.

Also, any suggestions for stacking transports and cargo?  Do you just use the supplied marshaling cards?

When you put the planes down, you put the ones with 3 movement points on top, 2 movement points in the middle, and 1 movement point on bottom.  Then you take as casualties the ones that have the least movement points left.  Works for me.  (Bombers have more movement, but you can do the same for them, or just remember).  If you like, you could even put some of those aircraft movement markers down to remember how many movement points you have, and put the fighters on top of those.

Darn good idea, I’m going to definetely do that.

Can anyone suggest methods of keeping track of movement points, most specifically for planes.  After multiple combat moves and a few rounds of combat, I found myself forgetting what territories some aircraft came from and how many remaining moves they had.

Also, any suggestions for stacking transports and cargo?  Do you just use the supplied marshaling cards?

Well, I just read the tournament rules and they’re definitely clearer.  It specifically states that AA and Battleships are returned to the game board, and that only subs get to fire again during opening fire.

I guess I’ll burn a copy of the tournament rules.

Can’t wait to get back to playing!

Thanks for the responses.

I guess what’s confusing is on page 16 of the rules under ‘step 7:  press the attack’.  It says, “As long as combat continues, repeat steps 2-6.”  Step 2 is ‘conduct opening fire’.  That led me to believe that there’s an opening fire step at the beginning of every combat round.

It does say that AA guns are returned to the game board, so I can see where AA only get one round of opening fire.

• Do battleships still get to do shore bombardment?

  Do subs still get to sneak attack if they didn’t submerge in the previous round?

To me it doesn’t make sense that either of those would happen, so I can’t see any reason for repeating step 2 again after the first round of combat.

Hi all, a couple sure to be easy questions for the pros.

1)  When aircraft attack a region with ant-aircraft (AA) guns, do the AA guns get only one round of attack which is during opening fire?  The rulebook says ‘return them to the game board’, but if the attacker chooses to press the attack, do the AA guns come back out in combat round 2 for another crack at ‘opening fire’.?

2)  On the heels of (1) above, the battle board shows anti-aircraft defending at 1.  Does that only happen if the AA didn’t fire in the opening fire phase, or do they get to take part in the ground defense as well?

3)  The rulebook says carriers have the special ability ‘fighter defense’ and can choose fighters as casualties instead of the carrier.  Are the fighters considered part of the defense too with the ability to use their defense factor of 4 during ‘defending units fire’?

Maybe I’m just reading too much into the rules and making this harder than it should be.  :?

Thanks in advance for any responses!