Rules for subs in AAP40

Thanks everyone. :)

@TrumpTrain16:

1. Must the US go to war at the beginning of its third turn or can it wait till whenever it wants to declare war if not already done so?

2. When nations are not at war (such as the US) can they share spaces on the board with other nations such as szs w/ Japan?

These were not clarified in the rules and I was just wondering.

Actually it is in the rules:

1.
@rulebook:

However, if the United States is still not at war with
Japan by the Collect Income phase of its third turn, it may
declare war on Japan at the beginning of that phase.

So they don’t have to declare war.

@rulebook:

Sea Units:
A sea unit can move through any friendly sea
zone. It can’t move into or through a hostile sea zone.

Unlike other sea units, submarines can move through and
even into hostile sea zones in the Noncombat Move phase.
However, a submarine must end its movement when it enters
a sea zone containing one or more enemy destroyers.
…

So they can share seazones, as the seazone is friendly when the US is not at war.
Only allied nations can share land territories.

HTH :-)

Thanks for the quick response molinar13.

Yea I made a banking program for my ti-83 graphing calc. All I need to do is enter the numbers for spent Ipcs and collected ipcs. It will even keep track of the total ipcs spent and recieved. If I had a USB to calc cable I would post here but I don’t.

Our group was wondering the same thing and came to the same conclusion.  In the new 1942 game I had a massive multinational allied fleet in SZ 12 including 3 russian subs of all things.  Facing it was a fleet in SZ 14 consisting of a Jap and german battleship/loaded carrier combo along with 6 u-boats.  It was in interesting situation, neither could attack the combined enemy with a divided attack force.  From SZ 14 the axis could hit Moscow  landing on an occupied eastern province with air power or SZ 17,18, 11, 9, 8 with the assumption the fighter(s) would land on a victorious carrier that single handedly destroyed a fleet of 4 CV, 8 FTR, 4 DD, 6 SS, 1 BB and  2 CC.  It meant using a fair bit of capital ship resources to escort straggling/special mission transport fleets or hoping in vain he would trade a ftr and cv for 1 or 2 transports.

I could have used the Yanks earlier to clear the enemy in SZ 14 but early I required a long shuck train starting on the US seaboard, Canada, algeria and across the top of Africa into persia to guarantee control of africa and to overwhelm the 2 german transport shuck operation into Africa.  I had enough fleet to defend, the Japs were trapped and would have put my america to africa shuck out of position.

The transport must be accompanied by a surface warship for its entire move.

Its this kind of developer support to the fans that will keep me with A&A year after year. If only other game companies would take the time to do something as simple as a statement like this then table top gaming would be in such a better place. Thank you for taking the time to be so candid and considerate to your fans Larry.

Paint me orange? :x