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Question: Alpha 2 or 3

If UK takes Marianas Islands on turn 2, can a neutral US move to that sea zone on turn 3 since it is no longer a Japanese held island?

Sorry for this question on this thread – I am not sure where the appropriate thread is for this question, but help is appreciated.

I’ve just opened Abattlemap, 0.79 version, and the unit tray is missing. The unit tray is the little box with all the units, control markers and facilities that allows players to add more units to the game board.

Does anyone know how to get it back? Tough to make moves without it!

Thanks!

Cheers

@Jmite:

Sorry for this question on this thread – I am not sure where the appropriate thread is for this question, but help is appreciated.

I’ve just opened Abattlemap, 0.79 version, and the unit tray is missing. The unit tray is the little box with all the units, control markers and facilities that allows players to add more units to the game board.

Does anyone know how to get it back? Tough to make moves without it!

Thanks!

Cheers

I copied this from a friends private message to me when I started Abattlemap:

_A quick tutorial on using ABattleMap:

• Navigating is done by holding down the right mouse button and moving the mouse.
• Placing new units in a territory is done by left clicking on the desired unit in the ToolBar window, and then left clicking in the desired territory. To place 5 units at a time, hold SHIFT. To place 10 units at a time, hold CTRL.
• Deleting units is done by clicking the middle mouse button on the desired unit, or by changing the mouse function to delete by clicking “DEL” in the upper right corner of the ABattleMap window. To delete 5 units at a time, hold SHIFT. To delete 10 units at a time, hold CTRL. To get back to the default mouse function, click “ESC” in the upper right corner of the ABattleMap window.
• Moving units from from a territory to another is done by dragging them with the left mouse button. To drag 5 units at a time, hold SHIFT. To drag 10 units at a time, hold CTRL. To drag a whole stack of units, hold CTRL+SHIFT.
• Undoing a recent action is done by clicking “UNDO” in the upper right corner of the ABattleMap window.
• Zooming in is done by pressing “+” on the numpad. Zooming out is done by pressing “-” on the numpad.
  *** Recovering the InfoView and ToolBar window after they mysteriously disappeared is done by removing the “ABattleMap.ini” file from your ABattleMap folder (default: C:\Program Files\ABattleMap).**_

@JamesAleman:

@Jmite:

Sorry for this question on this thread – I am not sure where the appropriate thread is for this question, but help is appreciated.

I’ve just opened Abattlemap, 0.79 version, and the unit tray is missing. The unit tray is the little box with all the units, control markers and facilities that allows players to add more units to the game board.

Does anyone know how to get it back? Tough to make moves without it!

Thanks!

Cheers

I copied this from a friends private message to me when I started Abattlemap:

_A quick tutorial on using ABattleMap:

• Navigating is done by holding down the right mouse button and moving the mouse.
• Placing new units in a territory is done by left clicking on the desired unit in the ToolBar window, and then left clicking in the desired territory. To place 5 units at a time, hold SHIFT. To place 10 units at a time, hold CTRL.
• Deleting units is done by clicking the middle mouse button on the desired unit, or by changing the mouse function to delete by clicking “DEL” in the upper right corner of the ABattleMap window. To delete 5 units at a time, hold SHIFT. To delete 10 units at a time, hold CTRL. To get back to the default mouse function, click “ESC” in the upper right corner of the ABattleMap window.
• Moving units from from a territory to another is done by dragging them with the left mouse button. To drag 5 units at a time, hold SHIFT. To drag 10 units at a time, hold CTRL. To drag a whole stack of units, hold CTRL+SHIFT.
• Undoing a recent action is done by clicking “UNDO” in the upper right corner of the ABattleMap window.
• Zooming in is done by pressing “+” on the numpad. Zooming out is done by pressing “-” on the numpad.
  *** Recovering the InfoView and ToolBar window after they mysteriously disappeared is done by removing the “ABattleMap.ini” file from your ABattleMap folder (default: C:\Program Files\ABattleMap).**_

This used to be a HUGE problem back in classic and it was discovered that the trays had a higher chance of disappearing if you put them on the edge of the map.  I prefer the Indian Ocean for mine now, used to be Brazil, but, as I said, edge of the map = problems. (No, I dont know if they fixed it, but I doubt it given the question.)

Question which may have been asked before, not sure. Suppose my fighter is on a friendly carrier. If that friendly carrier moves 2 spaces in its turn, can I still move my fighter 4 spaces in my turn? The same goed for the other way around. When I land my fighter on a friendly carrier after moving 4 spaces, can the carrier move 2 more in its own turn? This would imply my fighter has moved 6 spaces before my next turn. Thanks

@Admiral:

Question which may have been asked before, not sure. Suppose my fighter is on a friendly carrier. If that friendly carrier moves 2 spaces in its turn, can I still move my fighter 4 spaces in my turn? The same goed for the other way around. When I land my fighter on a friendly carrier after moving 4 spaces, can the carrier move 2 more in its own turn? This would imply my fighter has moved 6 spaces before my next turn. Thanks

Yes.  your unit movement does not affect other players movement.

Disadvantage 1a) If your ally attacks with with his carrier and it gets damaged while your fighter/tac is on it as cargo, your fighter/tac is stuck on board until the carrier gets repaired.

On page 9 of the 1940 Pacific manual:1st sentence, second paragraph under Political Situation on the bottom left side of the page: it states that UK/Anzac may take possession of Dutch territories and French Indo China….is that true in Global? I never noticed before last night that you can grab FIC also.

@JamesAleman:

On page 9 of the 1940 Pacific manual:1st sentence, second paragraph under Political Situation on the bottom left side of the page: it states that UK/Anzac may take possession of Dutch territories and French Indo China….is that true in Global? I never noticed before last night that you can grab FIC also.

They cannot take control of FIC unless Japan seizes the territory first.  Otherwise it will remain French.

The Political Situation rules in the Pacific Rulebook have been entirely replaced with those in the Pacific FAQ.

@Ruanek:

@garett:

Can you move 2 (with mech or tanks) onto a transport?

Can you move 2 (with mech or tanks) off of a transport?

I’m not really sure what your question is.

A transport can hold 1 of any land unit, plus one (non-mechanized) infantry.  So it can have a tank/mech. infantry/artillery/AA gun/infantry and an infantry.  It can’t hold both a tank and a mechanized infantry.  If they’re being loaded in the same turn, it has to be in the same phase (both during the combat phase or both during the non-combat phase) and they have to be offloaded in the same phase as well.  If they’re being loaded and offloaded in the same turn it has to be within the same phase (you can’t load in the combat phase and offload in that turn’s non-combat phase).

Edit: It seems that your post may be better answered below, depending on what exactly the question was.

Does this mean that a transport can hold 2 artillery? or is it 1 infantry and 1 tank/artillery/mech./AA gun/infantry?

@Juhlius:

@Ruanek:

@garett:

Can you move 2 (with mech or tanks) onto a transport?

Can you move 2 (with mech or tanks) off of a transport?

I’m not really sure what your question is.

A transport can hold 1 of any land unit, plus one (non-mechanized) infantry.  So it can have a tank/mech. infantry/artillery/AA gun/infantry and an infantry.  It can’t hold both a tank and a mechanized infantry.  If they’re being loaded in the same turn, it has to be in the same phase (both during the combat phase or both during the non-combat phase) and they have to be offloaded in the same phase as well.  If they’re being loaded and offloaded in the same turn it has to be within the same phase (you can’t load in the combat phase and offload in that turn’s non-combat phase).

Edit: It seems that your post may be better answered below, depending on what exactly the question was.

Does this mean that a transport can hold 2 artillery? or is it 1 infantry and 1 tank/artillery/mech./AA gun/infantry?

No.  It can hold one unit of any type plus one infantry.  So it could have 2 infantry, an infantry or an artillery, an infantry and a mech. infantry, an infantry and a tank, or an infantry and an AA gun.

It is proper use of a transport to do the following:

Load a German on an italian Tnp, then on the Italian turn, the Italian loads in the combat move and unleads in the same combat move with the same tnp, leaving the German on the tnp?

In other words, is a tnp with a friendly on it able to participate in amphibious combat activity so long as it leaves the friendly on board as cargo?

I have a question.  On the turn that Japan declares war on UK/Anzac, can they move through zones that have UK or Anzac or US destroyers during the combat movement phase, or do those zones turn hostile the moment the DOW occurs and before the combat move phase?

Cheers

@LuckyLindy:

I have a question.  On the turn that Japan declares war on UK/Anzac, can they move through zones that have UK or Anzac or US destroyers during the combat movement phase, or do those zones turn hostile the moment the DOW occurs and before the combat move phase?

Cheers

Seazones occupied by UK/ANZAC turn hostile the moment the DOW occurs, which is before any move is made.  Thus, Japan cannot move through any seazone that includes any UK/ANZAC surface warship (destroyers, but also carriers, cruisers, and battleships).  US ships remain neutral and are ignored in combat or treated as nonhostile in seazones, and thus do not block movement until a state of war exists between US and Japan (which does not yet exist in your specific example as you only specified declaring war on UK/ANZAC and that does not immediately trigger the US).

@LuckyLindy:

I have a question.  On the turn that Japan declares war on UK/Anzac, can they move through zones that have UK or Anzac or US destroyers during the combat movement phase, or do those zones turn hostile the moment the DOW occurs and before the combat move phase?

Cheers

You may move out of sea zones that become hostile upon declaring war. You may load transports in said sea zones on the first round in which you have declared war and use them for amphibious assaults elsewhere, you may attack the enemy in the newly minted hostile Sea Zone.

You may not move through enemy sea zones for any reason.

Japan may declare war on any specific powers it chooses to do so, and, treat all other nations they have not declared war upon (or had war declared on them from) as neutral.  Thus, if you never invaded the FIC, and never specifically declared war on France, you might be able to fool your opponent into thinking the French Destroyer is blocking your attack, when it is not.  I’ve done this once in the past.  It works, because the French destroyer is neutral.