AAG40 FAQ

No.  Either let them pass or don’t.

Is the optional rule in Europe allowing German subs to disrupt convoys for 3 IPC instead of 2 IPC allowed to be used in Global? Also, does the Super Sub tech allow subs to disrupt convoys at 3 IPC instead of 2 IPC?

I’ve often wondered this, and it has come up in our games. With regards to air units attacking a target and needing a place to land legally in order to make the attack, you cannot just send them on a suicide run to kill something and let the survivors just die at end of combat.

But, if one has a single aircraft carrier as a legal landing spot, can one then attack with more air units than can legally land on the carrier? Say, four fighters but only 2 can land, but since there is a legal landing zone at the start of combat is the move legal?

Air units moving in the Combat move phase must have a valid landing spot available for each plane. This means with 1 carrier, you can move 2 planes (not 4) and count that carrier as there landing space providing the carrier and planes will have enough movement to meet. It is possible to send 4 air units into a battle because of 1 carrier if the ones that start on the carrier can land elsewhere to make room for up to 2 more planes.

The way I understand it, you can count the carrier being able to meet the planes even if enemy ships have to be attacked first to clear a path. I understand that the attack to clear must occur and regardless of the odds, you can then allocate planes to attack somewhere and use the carrier’s “future” position as a landing spot. If the naval battles to clear a path fail, then any planes that need to land on a carrier that can’t meet them will crash.

With regard to carrier designated planes, if they are all destroyed in combat, the carrier that was going to move to give them a landing spot in Non combat no longer has to move to provide a landing spot since the planes are gone. This is helpful when UK wants to destroy the Italian fleet at sz95 and then moves the carrier elsewhere if they lose the planes in combat.

Nice explanation, James.  The only thing I’d add is that the carrier must move to pick up any surviving planes if it is able and the planes have no other place to land.

@dadler12:

Is the optional rule in Europe allowing German subs to disrupt convoys for 3 IPC instead of 2 IPC allowed to be used in Global?

Yes.

@dadler12:

Also, does the Super Sub tech allow subs to disrupt convoys at 3 IPC instead of 2 IPC?

No.

One more thing about planes & carriers:
A newly built carrier can also give your planes a legal landing spot.

@WILD:

One more thing about planes & carriers:
A newly built carrier can also give your planes a legal landing spot.

Yes. Is this a question or an answer to someone else?

Let’s say you declare an Amphibious Assault that requires sea combat in the Sea Zone adjacent to the Territory where the combat will take place.  Two questions:

1. Can the attacker retreat from the sea battle if it gets dicey?

2. If yes to 1, and the sea zone the attacker retreat to is adjacent to a friendly territory, can the attacker unload the land units in the transports onto the friendly territory during the non-combat phase?

Thanks!  I apologize if this is clarified elsewhere, but I could not find it.

Rock on.  Thanks.

Do you happen to have a reference for that?  I have a Japanese player that won’t be happy about that.

Reference regarding Amphibious Assault: AAE40 page 15 Section: Transports, second and third paragraph:

"A transport can land units while in any friendly sea zone along its route, including the sea zone it started in. If a transport loads land units during the Combat Move phase, it must offload those units to attack a hostile territory as part of an amphibious assault during the Conduct Combat phase, or it must retreat during the sea combat step of the amphibious assault sequence while attempting to do so. A transport that is part of an amphibious assault must end its movement in a friendly sea zone (or one that could become friendly as result of sea combat) from which it can conduct the assault.

Any land units aboard a transport are considered cargo until they offload. Cargo can’t take part in sea combat and is destroyed if the transport is destroyed."

Based on the above text, loading the transport during combat means the units must be unloaded during combat, and if not unloaded during combat are treated as cargo since unloading a transport is part of the transport’s move and the transport’s move has ended during the combat phase as a result of the amphibious assault. Also, it clearly states that units loaded during combat must be offloaded in a hostile territory and a friendly territory after the retreat would not be a hostile territory for unloading.

Furthermore, with the exception of air units, no sea or land unit moves in both Combat and Non Combat phases, therefor it is logical to assume they are stuck on a retreated transport until their next turn, in which they may be moved during either phase as normal.

Well, that is my best guess anyway. I am not affiliated with the game so this is not an official answer. I hope this helps.

Sounds good to me.  I’ll add this from page 30: “If a transport retreats, it can’t offload that turn.”

Is the US allowed to move trough sea zones touching Europe into a sea zone that doesn’t(eg. from Z118-Z124) when not at war?

No.

Any IPCs spend on research is it lost if the attemp isn’t successfull?

Thanks Gamerman.

@WILD:

Now that’s classic!!

I can see a troll at the booth now, $5 buddy, and answer 3 questions.

Three questions? Here we go (Monty P style):
-what is your name
*admiral so and so
-what is your quest
*to sink german navy
-what is your favorite color
*red

OK u can pass :-D

I played my first game this weekend.  I am not the owner of the games, so I don’t have the rules or board to look at and I am going off memory for this question….

In our game, UK Pacific started to march troops west to get the troops and income in pro-Allied Persia. Persia is located on the European board though.  Who gets this income?  Also, a question on the UK NO’s.  While it didn’t state it in the rule book, we agreed that the NO regarding all German subs cleared from the board should go to UK Europe.  How about the other NO.  It requires the UK (and I think ANZAC) to own all original territories.  Is it my choice to split that NO income as I see fit?  This can matter since UK Europe and UK Pacific income is kept separate.  If I can choose, could I split it, say, three ipc to Europe and two to Pacific?

Thanks for replying in advance.

@13thguardsriflediv:

@WILD:

Now that’s classic!!

I can see a troll at the booth now, $5 buddy, and answer 3 questions.

Three questions? Here we go (Monty P style):
-what is your name
*admiral so and so
-what is your quest
*to sink german navy
-what is your favorite color
*red

OK u can pass :-D

That"s what I had in mind  :-D