The most effective russian players I’ve encountered are the ones that are able to build up a force that is able to threaten a counter on a german stack. If a good german player wants to go for Moscow they are able to get it, however I’ve seen plenty games where the UK/USA are putting enough pressure on the German player for him to stop just in front of Moscow. If the Russian player only has bought inf at this point there is not much of a threat for the German player to keep russia contained and slowly kill it economically. However if there is a stack of paired inf/art the pushback power is a lot bigger and thus Germany can be challenged and Russia may be able to break the German wall.
New major IC:s
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Hey have a question regarding building new major IC:s in the alpha rules.
I dont remeber where i read it but somewhere i think i read that new major IC:s only can be built on territories that originally belongs to you.
How does that works for the Japanese territories that originally belonged to China. “have a chinese symbol” but from start of game belong to Japan. Are they a legal target for building a new major IC?
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No, for Japan only those with the rising sun: Korea
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Major IC’s can be built in any territory that are worth 3 IPC’s or more. Doesn’t matter if it originally belonged to you or not. Now, if the territory has a major IC in it already, belonging to an enemy and you capture the territory. The major IC becomes a minor IC and you can’t upgrade the minor IC to a major IC. Only the original owner of the territory, if he recaptures the territory can upgrade the minor IC back to a major IC. That’s probably the rule you’re thinking of.
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So for instance, you could build a major IC in Kiangsu or Manchuria if you wanted to as Japan.
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You read correctly, Nightlord. You can only build major ICs for originally-owned territories, as per the Alpha +2 rules.
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So for instance, you could build a major IC in Kiangsu or Manchuria if you wanted to as Japan.
Kiangsu and Manchuria are Chinese territories. Japan may begin the game occupying those territories, but they are Chinese so Japan can NOT build a Major IC there, only a Minor IC. To build a Major IC, the territory has to be one of your original territories and worth 3 IPCs or more.
For example, Norway, which is worth 3 IPCs, is originally German territory so Germany could build a Major IC there. However, if the USA captured Norway, they could only build a Minor IC there. -
the 3 IPC value also applies to minor IC’s right?
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Minor ICs can be built on any territory you control worth 2 IPCs or more.
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