@souL:
First, let me get 100% verification. In the 1942 setup, any territory under Japanese control at the start of the game aside from Kiangsu and Manchuria are considered valid for the purposes of collecting the UK national objective “control any territory originally under Japanese control.” right?
No. Only territories with a Japanese control marker printed on the board (excluding Manchuria and Kiangsu) apply to the NO. Per the FAQ, when the rules refer to the “original controller” of a territory, it means the controller printed on the map, not the controller at the start of the game (as P@nther pointed out).
@souL:
Well, at the start of either game kia and man are both Japanese controlled, though they’re considered chinese if they fall into allied hands. kwa, bur, sum, sol, brn, phi, ngu, wak, and mid are all clearly controlled by allied powers in the same fashion that kia and man are in 1942 are in every conceivable way yet they’re treated differently for the purposes of this NO. I guess I just want to know why.
They aren’t treated differently, as I noted above. If they were treated differently, both this NO and income derived from captured “original” territories would play differently in the two scenarios. For example, if the UK took the Philippines from Japan, they would be claimed by the UK in the '42 scenario and liberated to the US in the '41 scenario. However, since the original controller is the one printed on the map, the Philippines are liberated to the US in both scenarios.