@johnny5 Yes, they could.
France/Anzac Questions In North Africa
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Can France move? Shouldn’t they have a supply truck instead of a tank? Are they important, do they change the impact of the game? Shouldn’t there be free forces in Egypt? Is Anzac in the game?
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- Free french can, but not Vichy units.
- Maybe, but they for some reason don’t need supplies at all, so they don’t really need trucks.
- They might be the critical margin for Allied victory. If they weren’t and the game was already balanced they wouldn’t be here (or more likely the Allies would be weaker).
- Too small to represent I guess?
- I don’t think so.
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@SuperbattleshipYamato I feel Egypt should have 2 French Infantry, and 4 Anzac with a Anzac Jeep or Truck.
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Maybe you can house rule it with Global 1940 units and painted ANZAC units.
I think it’s fine though since ANZAC units in the West basically fought under the same command as British troops. It was only in the Pacific, where forces were larger, did they have more autonomy (of sorts).
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@SuperbattleshipYamato Or maybe some of the UK reinforcements are Anzac.
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Exactly.
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@FranceNeedsMorePower Anzac are actually represented with one of the optional rules from the back of the rulebook. pp 38 “ANZAC Reinforcements: The United Kingdom player may deploy one UK infantry each turn from the Reinforcements Zone directly to the Indian Ocean convoy sea zone.”
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The Vichy French units are basically static until turn 7, then they defend against the Allied landings and either switch to Free French or are eliminated. The Free French units then activate at the same time as the USA forces, and the USA player can produce new ones in Oran within limits. No French trucks are needed or provided in the normal piece limit, the French use supply moved by USA trucks or don’t use any at all when their “self-sufficient” characteristic is in effect. The “extra” bag of pieces has some to use for player variants.
I think the ANZAC and Free French forces fighting with the 8th Army are all abstracted out as UK forces which is fine by me. There were certainly political considerations with those forces in real life, but for game purposes they were all under a unified command.
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Nice. If you really wanted to you could just replace those pieces with ANZAC pieces from Global 1940 and have them operate under British command.
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@SuperbattleshipYamato I definitely would if I had 1940!
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