Combat movement question?

@trig It’s not really needed in my opinion. My thought on this originally was that it was to better track aircraft movement to prevent accidently cheating but as far as I can tell, I don’t see a good reason to not have com and non com go together.

HBG just posted a FAQ list :

Q: Are German SS Panzergrenadiers Infantry Class units?

A: No. (they are Vehicle class, like regular Mech. Infantry)

Regarding lend-lease, I do not think that it is explicitely stated in the v3 Rules, but some of the wording suggests that multiple lend-lease can be performed in the same turn, provided that it goes to eligible nations, according to each National Reference Sheet.

Specifically, Rule 7.9 mentions: “Major Powers may send lend-lease to other Major and Minor Powers. This can be either military units or IPPs.”

It also mentions in the “Production” subsection that you “Purchase the unit during the Production Phase and place in on the Production Chart with the receiving nations roundel underneath it.”

Finally, rule 11.4 mentions in the “Over Land Zones Delivery Process” that “The lend-lease stops in the first land zone in the receiving nations Home Country”.

The use of plural in all these rules suggests that there may be more than one receiving nation at a time.

I figured as much but thank u.

@GeneralHandGrenade Excellent! Thank you, GHG.

“In other words you could place 5 infantry AND 5 ships at a territory with a major shipyard and a major factory. The shipyard is a factory for ships but needs to be connected to the factory for supply purposes.”

Completely changed my understanding of shipyards!

Sounds good. We just didn’t know if the optional rule about capturing a territory with a capital ship being produced at a shipyard sort of trumped that specific rule. We have been using the rule you posted instead of the optional rule with france. Thanks!

@Caesar-Seriona I think you need to re-read the rule, it does not say you can only send to one nation. What the rule states is that, when you do Lend Lease to a nation, you can send that nation one unit or up to half that nations income. But you can do that same process multiple times.

Language from the book here:

7.8 Lend-Lease: During the Production Phase nations may lend money (IPPs) or military
equipment to other Major and Minor Powers.
Requirements: A nation can lend-lease to a nation under the following conditions:
(a) The receiving nation is at war with a Major Power or,
(b) A special circumstance (e.g. Spanish Civil War) allows a
nation to lend-lease.
A nation may not lend-lease to itself or to Aligned minors (since
they are technically also part of that nation). Britain cannot lendlease to the FEC or ANZAC.
Declaration: A player must announce his intention to lend-lease at
the start of the turn. You may lend either;
(a) Up to half the receiving nation’s current income in IPPs (not
counting bonus income), rounding fractions up. Or,
(b) One military unit. Such a unit must be produced at a factory in the Home Nation
specifically for the purpose of lending. You may not lend-lease units already on the
board.

It does not specify that you can only Lend Lease to a single nation. So that might help clear it up a bit. The USA can Lend Lease to China, USSR, UK, and Free France all in the same turn if it wants to, for example.

I guess I still don’t follow the logic on allowing Free France a free reign to take out Vichy though. I’m not saying the money from Vichy makes or breaks Germany winning, but it just doesn’t make any sense to allow the Allies to just take all the territory essentially for free while Germany can’t do anything about it. But we may have to just agree to disagree on that one. :grinning:

Ahhh thanks for this GHG. I’d always thought the rule meant that the Spanish Civil War kept playing out once the Germans and USSR were at war, but that once the war ended, the winning side would be automatically aligned.

Interesting, that definitely changes things in my thinking of the game! It probably behooves the Axis to keep the war going for as long as possible to have them automatically join later. Though the flip side is no victory points for winning the SCW.

Thanks for clarifying there!