Air defense in Suez canal

@cernel That’s quite a loophole you’ve discovered. It’s things like this that made LHTR necessary. You are correct about point 1. Regarding point 2, I see nothing in the rules that would disallow attacking an unoccupied enemy-controlled territory with only air units.

Aircrafts withdraw from battle remaining in the territories where the battle is fought, in this case Norway.
In the non combat move they have to land in the same way you do if you had won the battle. So they may come back to England, land on AC or in any other legal space they can reach.

@kiyosa:

Second is more complex:  When an Aircraft  Carrier is defending, are fighters on it simply considered cargo, or do they get to defense dice just the the rest of the units in the seazone?  Do friendly powers’ fighters on a Carrier get to defend at a 3 as well?

I ask because the rules specifically state that Aircraft Carriers have ‘Fighter Defense’ and that a fighter can “take the hit” for the carrier.  If the fighters are active defense units, the statement seems kind of redundant (other than to specify that friendly powers’ fighters can do this).

From a defensive perspective, this statement can seem redunant.  However, I believe the statement is made because from an attacking perspective it is different.  Friendly fighters on a carrier ARE considered only cargo: they can not join the attack nor be taken as a hit.

You guys are the best! Next game will be alot better as we will actually know what we’re doing with air units, especially with Japan and the US, as battles around the Pacific were the main confusion point, thanks switch and paintbrush…
Cheers

@General_D.Fox:

@newpaintbrush:

@mateooo:

Im sure this has been discussed and resolved a million times over, and as far as I know it is true, but I would like a clarification for a game I am in.
In order to use the suez canal, you must have control of both sides (EGY and TRJ) at the beginning of your turn.
Is this true?
Thanks
Mateo

Right, right.  Since the BEGINNING of your turn, so if you take control of one of those territories from an enemy power during combat, you cannot move through it durning noncombat.

If you are playing the Axis and Allies Drinking Game, you must also hum a tune that another player on your team must identify, while drinking either a beer or a shot (depending on the version of the game you’re playing).  This happens while you are physically moving the units from one side of the Suez Canal to the other.

So how does humming a tune help while crossing the canal, bird man? Do you plan to walk across using your 8th and 16th notes as a land bridge?

Most of the territory you are marching through (barring the canal) is desert.  Therefore, it will be parched.  Therefore, singing and whistling will waste moisture.  Since soldiers need something to do while they’re marching, and they might as well do something as long as they have those nice percussion instruments (boots on the ground), they should hum.  That is how humming helps you cross a canal.  It passes the time.

Writing, editing, and adding to the rules for the drinking game is what the fat bastards with all the stars do while they’re riding in the jeeps watching you poor schmoes do your “exercise”.  You don’t think we became generals just because we got Purple Hearts, do ya?

Besides, we’re technically working when we’re doing it.  I think the unofficial designation is something like “Practicing for justifying budget expenditure”; it’s how the military justifies those billion dollar military budgets.  The OFFICIAL designation, of course, is something like “Filling out paperwork for determinance of optimal cost-effectiveness free-form tactical maneuvers”, which looks damn good on those stupid papers we have to send in, and has the added bonus of making anyone that reads it fall asleep by the time they finish the sentence, so they never CAN track down all those expenditures anyways, which is precisely the point.

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I’m not really a general, you know.  Unless it’s “general-ly looking at girls”

Concur with Sankt here  (who is becoming a very high grade “go to” person for answers on LHTR)

when i was starting to play a&a a while ago, i had the same question about movement…

i went to the official site and it was a FAQ there…
they said something like:
“you can move 4 spaces in total. the possible ways are: 0 combat/4 non-combat; 1 combat/3 non-combat; 2 combat/2 non-combat; 3 combat/1 non-combat”
notice that you can only move 4 spaces in combat if you are attacking a seazone AND you have a carrier there to make a save landing (either the carrier was attacking, too, or the carrier moved there in your non-combat)

Thanx for the information, and quick response!