@andrewhollinger:

Thanks for all the help. It’s really helped out.

I’m still a little confused about my first question.

Is this scenario legal:

I’m Germany. I’ve purchased my units. Now my combat move. I decide to attack a UK territory. I roll the dice and we battle. (Whether I win or not is irrelevant.)

Now I’m stoked. I attack Russia now, for the victory city of Leningrad. We go through dice rolls. I may win or not.

NOW I move on to my non-combat moves, mobilization, etc.

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Is it legal for Germany to attack TWO DIFFERENT territories in ONE turn?

I do understand that I can “Press Attack” or “Retreat” in a single battle. But can I skirmish more than once in a turn? Just curious.

Thanks.

Andrew

You can attack many territories, but not in the way you describe.  You must conduct ALL your combat moves at once, before beginning to perform any of the actual battles.  If you’re Germany on turn 1, you will often see players counter-attack the russians in karelia and either belorussia or Ukraine, they will hit the british BB in the western Med, the destroyer in the eastern med, and at the same time make an amphibious assault on Egypt with troops from southern Europe joining the ones from Libya and a plane or two (and in answer to your question, even if only one unit in the original assault comes in on an amphib landing, all ground troops are committed to fight without retreat, even if most of them came in overland.  Planes, however, can disengage after the first round of combat if you wish.)

The trick is, you have to commit to ALL of these combat moves before you start ANY of the battles.  You can’t do one and see how your doing before deciding whether to move into other territories.

There is still value at times in carefully choosing the order you conduct your battles as results in one may make you more or less likely to retreat in another territory, but you must commit to at least one round of battle in all those territories.

That’s exactly it! Remember there might be some strategy in which battle you choose to resolve first…

I agree with Bean.

For instance, if Russia attacks Ukraine and W. Russia, I find it wiser to do W. Russia first, to see how badly beat up my army is before rolling Ukraine.  No matter what,you have to roll at least one round of all declared battles, but if you got beat hard in W. Russia you may decide to retreat in Ukraine to conserve forces, if you did insanely well, you may take more risks in Ukraine. (Apply this to any set of battles.  Not just Ukraine/ W. Russia.)

:-)
  One clarification, once you begin a battle, you must finish it. Win, lose, or withdraw after the completion of one or more rounds of combat, (attackers choice).
  Then you can move on to the next declared battle of your choice.
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No matter what,you have to roll at least one round of all declared battles

Does this apply to subs too or can i use opening fire and then retreat before the first attacking round provided there isn’t an enemy destroyer present?

It applies to SUBs also.

Once you declare combat movement to engage the enemy, you must complete at least ONE FULL CYCLE of combat.

thanks but one more noob question. Can a Battleship bombard to aid any attack or only during amphibious landings?

You must land at least 1 unit to a land territory from a transport in the same sea zone as the Battleship in order to fire the single bombard attack.