AAG40 FAQ

@wilk7011:

Here is the scenerio U.S. want to invade German coastal territory A. The sea zone the U.S. is invading from is touching both territory A and territory B. Territory B has an airbase with fighters on it. Can Germany scramble fighters from territory B even though the attack is on territory A?

Does the attacker have to assign where everything is going before the defender decides to scramble? Meaning you better have enough protection at sea if you send everything inland for an invasion.

Only planes from A can scramble unless the US is also invading B.(This is for Alpha + 0.1)

Yes, Germany decides how much to scramble after the US moves its units; thus, you better have enough forces to win against all those planes whether they go into the sea zone or stay on land.

@wilk7011:

Here is the scenerio U.S. want to invade German coastal territory A. The sea zone the U.S. is invading from is touching both territory A and territory B. Territory B has an airbase with fighters on it. Can Germany scramble fighters from territory B even though the attack is on territory A?

OOB - Yes.
Alpha+.1  - Only if there is a sea battle before the assault.

@Krieghund:

@wilk7011:

Here is the scenerio U.S. want to invade German coastal territory A. The sea zone the U.S. is invading from is touching both territory A and territory B. Territory B has an airbase with fighters on it. Can Germany scramble fighters from territory B even though the attack is on territory A?

OOB - Yes.
Alpha+.1  - Only if there is a sea battle before the assault.

OOB is only yes if B is an island.

True.

A mech wants to blitz from A through B into C. A tank accompanies the mech by moving from D through B into C. Is this allowed? I  don’t think so, since I’m sure that the tank must accompany the mech for its entire move, but I wanted to be sure.

You’re right, it’s not allowed.

So I guess this rule was Larry’s intent?  It doesn’t explicitly say this in the rules.  It just indicates the mech inf must “move along” with the blitzing tank.  There is no passage (that I can find) that suggests that they must originate in the same territory.

“Move along with” means exactly that.  They must start and end their moves together.

Is China in control of the lone fighter on their territories or does it belong to the US since it is represented by them?

It belongs to China

How do people keep it straight?

@wilk7011:

How do people keep it straight?

US fighters usually don’t end up in China before Japan kills the Chinese plane. if you can’t keep track of it, put a Chinese roundel under it.

@wilk7011:

How do people keep it straight?

we use a US fighter from an older A&A version

Just wanted to clarify as there are two conflicting answers to this question:

@wilk7011:

Here is the scenerio U.S. want to invade German coastal territory A. The sea zone the U.S. is invading from is touching both territory A and territory B. Territory B has an airbase with fighters on it. Can Germany scramble fighters from territory B even though the attack is on territory A?

@calvinandhobbesliker:

Only planes from A can scramble unless the US is also invading B.(This is for Alpha + 0.1)

@Krieghund:

OOB - Yes.
Alpha+.1  - Only if there is a sea battle before the assault.

Krieghund is right in this case. Here’s the explanation from Larry:

In situations where a sea zone is served by more than one airbase, Korea and Japan into sea zone 6 for example, each of the territories (or both in this case) can scramble up to 3 fighters and/or tactical bombers. On the other hand, if Korea is specifically being attacked by an amphibious force, and there is no sea battle occurring, only the aircraft in Korea can participate in the scramble.

To sum it up: If there is a sea battle, involving an amphibious assault or not, all neighboring aircraft that meet the scramble requirements can participate in the sea battle. If there is only an amphibious assault and there is no sea battle, only the territory be attacked from the sea can scramble up to 3 aircraft.

Explanation from here: http://harrisgamedesign.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=40&t=4060

Couple questions:

First, a repost since I got a couple differet answers.  Can Japan build an IC on mainland China, on Kiansu for example, and if so minor or major.  Same basic question for other countries, can other build IC’s on land that is not theirs?  USA on Russia for example.  The rules seem to read no.

Second, SZ 6 has USA fleet in it surrounding Japan.  A)  Can I take planes off Japan, pass through SZ 6 to another to sink undefended transports, or do they enter battle in SZ 6.  B)  Can I bring planes from the mainland back to Japan, through SZ 6 on Non Combat Movement without a battle?

Japan can only build minors on Chinese territory, as can any nation on foreign tt.

A-You can fly over the ships in Z6
B-Yes
Planes in both combat move and noncombat move can treat hostile zones as friendly

Quick question on amphibious assaults.  UK enters sz 109 with trn dd fig.  German sub is present.  dd and fig miss.  sub hits.  does the trn retreat from the amphibious assault or is it destroyed by the sub.  Thanks!

@majikforce:

Quick question on amphibious assaults.  UK enters sz 109 with trn dd fig.  German sub is present.  dd and fig miss.  sub hits.  does the trn retreat from the amphibious assault or is it destroyed by the sub.  Thanks!

The transport can retreat(and should)

Thanks Calvin that’s how we played it.  For future reference can the transport unload after it retreats from an attempted amphibious assault?