Blitzkrieg?

[MG Horya]

Now here is the interesting part… Every line in the rule book that describes Blitzing says the second territory that you blitz into can be friendly or hostile.

Hello all.

Does this mean you can take an unoccupied territory with a tank, and then ‘blitz’ your tank back off the front line? Possibly back into the territory it came from? My friends and I have always played that all blitzing must be into hostile territories….which now seems wrong…

[ChocolatePancake]

@MG:

Hello all.

Does this mean you can take an unoccupied territory with a tank, and then ‘blitz’ your tank back off the front line? Possibly back into the territory it came from? My friends and I have always played that all blitzing must be into hostile territories….which now seems wrong…

Well, as Krieghund said, when you attack a neutral territory, it becomes hostile, so you can blitz them.

[Witt]

@MG:

Now here is the interesting part… Every line in the rule book that describes Blitzing says the second territory that you blitz into can be friendly or hostile.

Hello all.

Does this mean you can take an unoccupied territory with a tank, and then ‘blitz’ your tank back off the front line? Possibly back into the territory it came from? My friends and I have always played that all blitzing must be into hostile territories….which now seems wrong…
Morning MGHorya. Yes, you have always been able to move back into the original territory from a Blitzed one.
An example being: UK moves its Tank from Egypt to an empty Italian Tobruk and back to UK controlled Egypt. Usually you would do it to grab a territory for the income. That territory might then be taken back by the other side in its turn.

[Young Grasshopper]

So Germany can Blitz through a strict neutral like Spain and capture Gibraltar with a single tank from Normandy, all within one combat movement?

[Witt]

You could not do YG, as Spain has Inf protecting it. Germany would have to stop and fight them. You can only blitz an empty territory. There are a few neutrals which do not have any Inf to mobilise( NW Persia being one).

[Young Grasshopper]

And to think that I’ve been racing a Brit infantry there every game so the Russians can take Iraq in one move  :roll:

[ChocolatePancake]

Well, you still have to do that, because NW Persia is Pro-Allies, meaning that Russia can’t blitz through it. They would still have to take control of it during non-combat.
Germany could blitz through it because NW Persia would be considered hostile, thus they would take it during combat movement.

[Cow]

You may not blitz through neutrals even if it is empty. Sorry dude.

[WILD BILL]

@Cow:

You may not blitz through neutrals even if it is empty. Sorry dude.

Need to go back and read through the first page Cow.  Krieghund already clarified this and you can blitz through an unoccupied “true” neutral, or an unoccupied “pro the other side” neutral (as in Germany blitzing a tank through an unoccupied pro allied NW Persia, then moving again in the combat phase).

[munchie19]

All these responses clear any up any confusion, thanks guys.

[cyanight]

Here is the blitz rule MG Horya

EUROPE P.29, Blit z: Tanks can “blitz” by moving through an unoccupied
hostile territory as the first part of a 2-space move that
can end in a friendly or hostile territory. This complete
move must occur during the Combat Move phase. By
blitzing, the tank establishes control of the first territory
before it moves to the next. The second territory can be
friendly or hostile, or even the space the tank came from.
A tank may not blitz through a territory that contains
an enemy unit, even if the unit is an AAA (antiaircraft
artillery), industrial complex, air base, or naval base.

[MG Horya]

Thanks for the clarification guys.