@M36 Yeah you’re right. Thanks. Maybe that was a house rule that we let people choose, but definitely in 1940 you can’t choose…

@Panther Thank you! That’s what I was missing. Much appreciated.

@M36

“They can’t participate in any other battles during that turn, including a battle in the territory from which they were scrambled.” From the 2nd Edition rulebook.

That makes sense, but still doesn’t EXPLICITLY state they have to fight in the sea. There’s also this:

They are treated as normal defending units in their sea zones

1. An Amphibious Assault has two parts
2. Scrambled plane can defend against an Amphibious Assault
3. A scrambled plane can NOT fight on the land after fighting at the sea.

But nowhere that I can find does it explicitly state that the defender has to choose to have the planes defend in the sea battle, so couldn’t they choose to fight in the land battle.

I’m not sure when this would occur anyway, because if the scramblers win then the attacking transports are sunk so there is no land battle,

Well, the example we had UK was landing with 2 cruisers and one transport in Denmark.

Germany scrambled a plane from Western Germany. The cruiser had a choice of being in the sea battle and fighting the scrambled planes, or sending a barrage into the land battle.

If they chose not to defend the transports, then the scrambled plane could easily destroy the transports, so they had to choose to defend the transports instead of sending a barrage.

The scrambled plane probably couldn’t take out two cruisers, and the land assault half of the amphibious assault was pretty week, so Germany wanted to scramble the plans to repel the land half of the amphibious assault, which would have allowed them to easily hold Denmark (1 plane and 2 infantry defending against 1 tank and 1 infantry).

We ruled that while the amphibious assault rules are not specific they certainly imply that the scrambled planes can ONLY fight in the nautical engagement, not on the second half of the amphibious assault.

p16:

These air units can be scrambled to help friendly units in adjacent sea zones that have come under attack. They can also be scrambled to resist amphibious assaults from adjacent sea zones, whether or not the territory being assaulted is the territory containing the air base. They may defend against the enemy ships conducting the amphibious assault even if friendly ships are not present.

There’s no glossary but here’s the best definition I could find of Amphibious Assault (p14):

An amphibious assault takes place when you attack a coastal territory or island group from a sea zone by offloading land units from transports into that target territory (or make a joint attack with both seaborne units that are offloading and other units from one or more neighboring territories).

Based on this definition the “amphibious assault” includes BOTH the sea battle AND the land battle. So, if air units can be scrambled to “resist amphibious assaults from adjacent sea zones”, it stands to follow that those planes be used for the land battle OR the sea battle?

We’ve been playing such that the planes can ONLY be used in the naval battle, but the way the rules are written seems to allow those planes to fight in the costal land battle if they choose.

Thoughts?

LMK when it actually releases pls.

@siredblood Sorry one more question. What is OOB? I’m thinking “original … something … board?”

@Sarge The rules for Global, as well as setup changes are listed in the back of 1940 Pacific. (You need second edition).

If you’re playing 1942 the setups are here:
http://headlesshorseman2.com/spring-gathering.html

I also think these work for 1940 and 1942 global setups. I haven’t confirmed though.

https://www.axisandallies.org/forums/topic/32646/tjoek-s-global-1940-setup-charts-updated-jan-31st

@siredblood is it possible to download vector versions of these maps? Also is it $20 for all of them? If so, where do I pay?

We play 1942 Global, is the map correct to that?

@Mondueo In order to play 1942 Global you need to buy 1940 Pacific and 1940 Europe (second edition of both) and put them together, and then modify them using these rules: http://headlesshorseman2.com/spring-gathering.html

Which looks like this… which is fine, but countries are in alphabetical order (which makes them hard to find), and because you’re starting with the 1940 map, and modifying it for 1942 you need to put a lot of control markers and such down. I was just trying to save space and when we set up we found that putting the control markers and bases down first makes sense, so having icons means you can just blitz through them, and then add actual units…

@Mondueo Nice! I’m doing cards for 1942 Global… they’re not pretty like yours, but they’re much easier than the current sheet. I still have to proof them to make sure there are no errors, but we’ve been using them to set up for 1942 Global for a few games and it’s much easier than the core setup list…

Axis and Allies.03.jm.pages.pdf