Rules Q&A

in essance, please explain……
1. Two hit units
2. Reparing carriers and battleships
3. planes and damaged carriers
3. ammount of Tac-bombers allowed on carriers

These are explained in the fact sheet:

both CV and BB take 2 hits
if they get a hit they do not automatically repair till they enter port ( repair is free)
Planes cannot land on damaged carriers
2 planes of any type can land on CV ( you can mix of match them as long as they aren’t bombers)

now somebody will tell you the same.

“enter port” my assumption is that that just means a seazone adjacent to a territory with a port…simple, but lame.

but planes can take off from damaged carriers? they just cant land…and can stay on and fight if its damaged?

I know whats in your summary IL, im asking whats in the rulebook…which unless you can bend space time im assuming you dont have yet. This thread is for 100% fact, not “fact/rumor summary”

This thread is for 100% fact, not "fact/rumor summary

The thread i mentioned is straight from larry. Posts are inventoried by the date he said it. I assume he was not lying about his games.

Sorry to bust the bubble sir.

oh noes you burst the bubble!

I guess that some people won’t believe any of the Larry said stuff until they actually see it in the official rule book. It’s too bad that those chimps didn’t release a copy of the rule book.

From the fact sheet:

Damaged carrier’s can’t land or launch aircraft when in a damaged state…

This is how I interpret it: If a carrier is damged in a battle where the fighters don’t participate, for example it is attacked by subs and the carrier is damaged with the fighters on-board, then those fighters are not destroyed and do not have to “retreat” to a friendly territory. They are stuck on the carrier until it is repaired and cannot particpate in other defensive or offensive battles.

I want to know something about the watermark convoy zones.  I heard they work differently than they did in the old AAP, but no one has given any specifics that I’m aware of.  Have you finished the rule book yet?  Ready for more info.

I want to know something about the watermark convoy zones.  I heard they work differently than they did in the old AAP, but no one has given any specifics that I’m aware of.  Have you finished the rule book yet?  Ready for more info.

I would like to hear more about this too…

djensen should post a copy of the rulebook.

Ill lump IL’s comments in with the now defunct “tac bombers select their casualty in sea combat”…among others

If he has the rule book…and we have questions…let him give the answers please

As i understand it, planes on aircraft carriers while attacked have always been considered defending in air thus they would never be sitting on an aircraft carrier when it gets damaged.

Ill lump IL’s comments in with the now defunct “tac bombers select their casualty in sea combat”…among others

And that was clearly delineated as an idea “left on the cutting room floor” and the actual one posted. I don’t know what was not clear about that.

IL you gave us a 90% overview of the new games…some mistakes have been corrected, some holes filled in

but i have a chance to ask questions almost directly to the rulebook, my concerns are particularly with “game mechanics”

Yes planes do launch to defend, but do they launch againsts subs? which they may not attack unless a destroyer is present

it’d be pretty bizzare if a sub and carrier trade hits…the carrier ends up damaged, and somehow 20-22 IPCs of planes just roll off the side

@Todd7912:

From the fact sheet:

Damaged carrier’s can’t land or launch aircraft when in a damaged state…

This is how I interpret it: If a carrier is damged in a battle where the fighters don’t participate, for example it is attacked by subs and the carrier is damaged with the fighters on-board, then those fighters are not destroyed and do not have to “retreat” to a friendly territory. They are stuck on the carrier until it is repaired and cannot particpate in other defensive or offensive battles.

If its damaged…and the planes are stuck…then how do you mark that…sideways the planes come off…when you come back to the pacific theatere on turn 3, 6 hours into the game…are you going to remember what happened just after you pulled off barrbarosa?

How does the United States get involved in the rules of Pacific 1940?  It says that they will need to be necessarily involved in all the other posts but I would like to know the method of how they actually get involved in the war.
In my opinion I think that is the biggest difference from all these games.  Id love to know, thanks.

I think if japan attacks UK, and definitely if they themselves get attacked.

How about we all just settle down and leave Mr. Jensen in peace so that he can write his preview?  I’m sure that many of your questions will be answered in it.

If you want to post specific questions on areas he should address, please feel free to do so.  However, arguing about these matters is pointless at this time.

@Craig:

@Brain:

As i understand it, planes on aircraft carriers while attacked have always been considered defending in air thus they would never be sitting on an aircraft carrier when it gets damaged.

I am not talking about defending CVs, I am talking about attacking ones.  CVs on which the friendly fighter is just cargo.

Defending CVs would have the friendly fighters defending in the air and those fighters would have to find another place to land.

Why would you attack someone and not use your fighters?

@Brain:

Why would you attack someone and not use your fighters?

Propably in a case where you dont want to kill all the enemy fleet, just weaken them, because they are in a deadzone, and after the first round of attack you want to retreat all your surviving ships to one specific sea-zone, and this can only be done in the combat move.