International Force Crap

@Krieghund Thanks! (For completeness, I should have been more clear in that Germany controlled Persia at the beginning of its turn in this example. i.e. there was/is a legal landing zone for the fighter)

@coachdcj Player 2 is correct. From the Official Rules Clarifications document (page 4):

You can never give an ally anything: units, territories or I.P.C.'s.

@The_Good_Captain
Thanks Cap

@Panther WILD BILL
less than a minute ago

Thanks Panther, for pointing out the rule’s clarification doc.

@burmaboi The rules consistently use the term “into” when referencing the ending space of a unit’s move and “through” when referencing spaces passed through along the way. So, an air unit must conduct combat if it moves “into” an enemy-occupied space, but not “through” one (other than being fired upon by AA guns). Also, on page 14, the rules mention AA guns in “flown over” territories, which indicates that enemy-occupied territories may be moved through, and the Official Rules Clarifications make the same reference on page 2 in point 6 regarding AA guns.

@krieghund Tks !

Try using tanks first to exploit this weakness of the IPM as the Allies then move on to planes b/c doing it with planes takes a great deal of skill and game knowledge and there is not a great deal of margin of error in terms of purchasing.  If you buy too many planes too quickly you can get in trouble and if you buy a few over a very long period this unique ploy might be made irrelevent.  With tanks you have more options and its easier for a lower skilled player to enact it adequately.  If you are worried about losing Africa dont.  If the Brits slide their tanks into Cauc they can shield SEuro from the Japanese and delay a full takeover by them.  Also when the Japs move a large fleet into FICSz to threaten Africa you can take Turkey with the armor in order to threaten a retake.  In essence you defend Africa with but a few guys, I go as small as 2-3 or even 1.  Japan is too weak to afford a press on Russia and a lurch for Africa and if Britain can reatake it immediately then it does no good.  Of course British steel in Cauc and still hit EEuro and Novo, but if the Japs have gone “all in” to FICSz then you know they have to “crap or get off the pot” meaning they either have to go back to Japan on the next turn or go to Africa.  If they go to Africa you make sure you have enough tanks to overwhelm(Japan shouldn’t be able to go with much more than 16inf so 3inf 20arm some air should be able to take with ~17arm, enough to withstand most counterattacks.  That is unless Japan backs off troops f/Sink to India for just this, but in that situation Japan is costing them not 1 but 2 turns of reinforcements to Siberia so Russia should be able to push Japan back quite a ways there and the British steel can help.

“Multi-National Force” & “Commander-in-Chief” rules were both scrapped for the 2nd-Edition. Forces of multiple nations in the same land territory or seazone may still defend together, but may no longer attack together.

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