Blockhouse Questions

@The_Good_Captain Also, from page 9:

Axis & Allies: D-Day is played in a series of turns. A turn consists of one pass through the sixteen order cards, and then a check for victory.

Since victory is checked at the end of each turn, the Allies must hold the required zones until the end of turn 10.

@Krieghund

Thank you! Okay, so I did interpret it correctly the first time.

@Krieghund

Agreed. That’s how I always play it.

I would say of all the D&D variants we’ve played, the guys and I have almost no arguments or conflicts about rules etc with D-Day.

Cheers,
Starlight Sniper

thanx again, i played a very nice game yesterday  :mrgreen:

In land combat, they can fire on any enemy units that are in the same zone.  It doesn’t matter where they came from.

I’m a bit behind on my more thought out response to this.  :oops:

First off I think you can play in your home games any way you want. House rule anything you want.

Second I think that for simple ease targets do not need to be declared before hand for either Bombers or blockhouses. For simplicity sake I think that is easiest. Page 15 of the rulebook supports pick roll a die and pick again “the same blockhouse can be chosen more than once.”

As to the bombers again on page 15 “Each hit removes one land unit of th Allies player’s choice from play.” So if you have two  bombers in the same zone you would roll for your hits and pick the units to remove. Although the word target on the order card suggests pick before you roll but for consistency there is no reason not to do it the same as blockhouses and this is how I have usually played.

This is also along the same lines of the  blockhouses fire to sea order which targets and page 16 says “each blockhouse can fire on a different target. Roll dice one at a time.”

So for consistency I would go with target-roll-repeat till out of dice.

I think the pick all targets and then roll is more to the Axis favor than the Allies favor. I have never lost as Axis and tend to think the target-roll-repeat is a better way to go.

Target all first is probably more real for Aircraft (harder to change course midstream and end up on a dime) than for blockhouses. If you are sighting visually on a landing craft you will be able to see if it has been hit from somewhere else and can change the target.

Sorry for the tardy reply.  :oops:

According to the FAQ from Avalon Hill you must declare your moves before the units are strafed and the move must be legal assuming no loses to strafing.

We have always played that the city has to be clear of the Axis at the begining and end of the turn. Moving a unit in during the turn doesn’t change control. Control is in step five of combat. The Axis move is after the Allies move. The Axis would move into the Allied controlled city. Combat would occur and if there are no Axis units left control would stay with the Allies. That isn’t in the FAQ.

http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=ah/faqs/axisdday

Hope that helps.