British convoys

Thanks for the clarification Krieghund.

Page 5 of the manual it is listed as starting income.

Once you take it, it’s yours until someone takes it from you.  You don’t have to leave units there.

Thanks a lot!

Its excatly how I have played the game so far, I just had my doubts because the rules aren’t very clear on this subject!

-Daniel

In fact, the key to this question has no matter with the location of the enemy ships. If you read p.22-23 of the rulebook about the section “Convoy Routes and Convoy Centers”, you should know that only the sovereignty of that sea zone matters.

If the seazone is controlled by your enemy, you can’t receive a penny from that territory even if that seazone is empty.

If the seazone is under your control, you can receive the IPC even an enemy ship stops in that seazone.

You just gotta move it in on the combat phase. It’s like taking an empty enemy terrotory.

Well, are you talking about Convoy centres or convoy routes? If you mean Convoy centres then they aren’t really Australian, they’re british and you divide the money between India and Australia how you see fit when you collect it. If you mean convoy routes then the income from the island or territory it is adjacent to is subtracted from the appropriate country’s income. You can learn all about both centres and routes on p. 22. happy playing.

Yes you’re right and that I guess is my problem. When you get right down to it the japanese were simply out of their minds . nevertheless the VP system is silly there has to be a better way to mimic historical goals. Japan did know it had to project enough power to make the U.S. (in their ninds) come to terms. The fact that we never would have done that is irrelevent though for Japan in history as in the game has a hard time doing much of anything but hang on in the face of U.S. industrial power.However the concept that china is worthless to the Japanese seems untrue to me . again I will close with a thought that through our new computer age you could easily create a scenario where all had the same map but had to discover for themselves where the enemy is making alliances all the more important etc. It better mirrors reality. What if we did not know what the other nation was producing necessarily or when and where? We all learned the rules before puberty when we played war in the woods, the key was not the most guys but the best, build good defenses and sneak up on the other guy find out what he’s doing and ambush him. Simple as this if you can’t ambush the outcome is solely tied to the card game war not real war strategy. Oh god I just ruined this damn game for myself AAAAGGGHHHHHH!!!