@panzerbaguette I’m with Delaja , a status of war between countries prior to the current Japanese turn nullifies the Japanese surprise strike ability between those nations. That’s how our group plays it and I feel it should be played. The surprise strike is meant to be an out of nowhere we were previously at peace but not we are being attack by great surprise !
Attacking Madrid
-
Because this is a mountain and city territory, what units get what modifiers?
-
Attacking Infantry (sans Mtn Inf) get a -1 to attack.
All defending Infantry get a +1 to attack and target selection on vehicles @ 1. I don’t believe defending mountain infantry get 2 +1s as bonuses of the same type don’t stack.
-
This example is covered in the « Dual Terrains » rule 1.24 (v.3). The city gives +1 only to the defenders, but the attacking units still suffer a -1 penalty (unless they are Mountain infantry).
This is why, in our games, most of our lend-lease to Spain consists of Mountain infantry, as almost all of Spain is mountain terrain.