Posts made by Adalwolf

@kmtnt Try attacking the Japs with the French fleet.

@caesar-seriona said in DAK house rule:

@adalwolf Are you looking for gameplay or historical value here? Both, but gameplay would trump.

If you want to get historical, you must use Italian transports and German transport aircraft as that is how DAK got to Africa. (I like this idea of using Italian transports)

I would go as far as to make sure DAK incorporates Italian units as DAK wasn’t exclusively German. This would help balance out the fact that the Axis don’t have any rules about attacking together unlike the Allies and Comintern.

If each division equals a single unit, you can copy this:

Under German Command:
DAK June 41: 2 German Medium tanks. 1 Italian Motor Infantry ( I would change this to 1 German light tank, 1 artillery, 1 Italian motor)
DAK Jan 42: 2 German Medium Tanks. 1 German and 1 Italian Infantry (I would change to 1 German artillery/1 light tank and 1 medium tank, 1 German and 1 Italian infantry)
DAK July 42: 2 German Medium tanks. 1 German Infantry (I would change to 1 German artillery / 1 light tank and 1 medium tank, 1 German infantry, 1 Italian Infantry)
(The thought of having 6 mediums tanks in Africa is too overpowered)

Under Italian Command
DAK Jan 43: 2 German Medium tanks. 2 Italian Light tanks. (1 German medium tank, 2 Italian light tanks)

Air force units are harder to judge because from my understanding. DAK itself wasn’t equip with an air force, more like the German air units were there as an overall supporting force.

What I gave you is if you want to take a pure historical view of DAK.

As for simple gameplay, I’ve seen 1 infantry, 1 medium tank, 1 artillery, and 1 AA gun be used as DAK.

Let me know what you think.

Can you non-combat your ships after doing a naval blockade providing your ship have not moved during the turn in combat movement?

Example: 3 USA surface warships are blockading San Francisco. Japan owns SF. During combat USA defeats Japan in SF and now wants to move its fleet to Hawaii during non combat.

It really comes down to the question is blockading considered a combat move. The rules do not specifically state.

Thanks.

@theveteran

Q: Can Defender scramble into a land zone attacked in a blitz?

A: Yes. If the planes have not participated in any other combat this turn.
The reason the rules in 8.6 specify that it happens after the Attackers combat movement is that an Attacker can not demand the Defender to specify if he wants to scramble or not in the middle of the Attacker’s turn (e.g. “this is my first combat move: Do you want to scramble?”). The Defender has the choice if/where he wants to scramble, when he knows all his opponent’s combat moves. As the Attacker is not required to specify any blitzing move before it takes place, it is up to the Defender if he wants to risk waiting or not.

For what it is worth, here is my index I have been using for version 3.

GW 36 version 3 Index.pdf

Please provide any feedback for some key commanders. Some of this is to add a more historical flavor to the game while adding an advantage to those that have the commander in play. This is not to discuss Commanders themselves on how they move retreat, etc, but just their deployment and abilities.

John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort
Great Britain

Deployment:
Turn: July 1939. Commander-in-Chief of the BEF. If Germany has NOT declared war on France, deploy Vereker along with up to 2 infantry, 1 artillery and 1 light tank from London to Picardy to form the British Expeditionary Force (BEF). The BEF cannot move once in France from Picardy.
If Germany has declared war, deploy Vereker to London.

Special ability:
Evacuate: Vereker may retreat as the defender from any land battle or an amphibious invasion to an adjacent land zone or sea zone by transport or Narrow Crossing. Vereker is only allowed to retreat with Infantry Class units present, including those of a nation allied with the British Commonwealth. Vereker may do this only on the first round of combat, after the attacker rolls, forfeiting all defensive rolls for the units retreating.

General Francisco Franco
Spain - Nationalists

Deployment:
Turn: July 1936, Command of the Spanish Army of Africa if playing with the Spanish Civil War Admiral expansion. If not, deploy to Spanish Morocco.

Special ability:
Dictator: Franco adds +2 to Nationalist Spanish recruitment die rolls. Units recruited this way must be place in the same land zone as Franco.

FAQ is posted on HBGs website to officially answer this question.

Posting this for any feedback. Trying to implement a DAK rule into GW36.

Prerequisite: Italy and Germany must be at war with an Allied Major Power.

The DAK receives units from the following:
3 Infantry
1 Motorized Infantry
2 Artillery class units, limited to 1 self propelled artillery
1 Light and 1 Medium or 2 light armor
Cost to implement: 1 IPP per unit, maximum 5 IPP to spend

**DAK can be reinforced one time in a future turn paying full price for the unit from the remaining units not selected from the first deployment **

Transfer to originally Italian-possessed North African land zone via supply Path. If the Allies have combat aircraft on Malta or warships in the Mediterranean, each DAK unit is subject to an interdiction roll.

1-4: Transport ships are sunk and unit is lost at sea
5-12: Unit lands safely in North Africa

Can be repatriated back to Italian Home Country with the same interdiction rules.

DAK units not subject to Desert rules.

@linkler I don’t think you can scramble into a territory where there is a blitz occurring because you would need to designate your scramble moves after the combat movement phase, before combat.

If your playing this different, please state in the rules how your able to scramble during a blitz move.

This is a critical question because it usually involves blitzing around Paris.

Thanks.

@rellhaiser I would say on a 10-12 All Calvary are forced to retreat during a battle, both attacker and defender, but no limit on purchases. They are not limited to 2. This gives them a little risk bringing them into battle.

Can you scramble fighters into a territory that your opponent is blitzing into? I believe scrambling has to occur at the end of the combat movement phase, before combat, and blitzing occurs after the combat movement phase, after combat.

@theveteran Unless you are privy to information that is not made public or know personally he is not, GHG is either part of the design team or a contributor to V3. I cannot speak for him directly, but he is credited in the official rulebook published by HBG under the section Acknowledgements.

I believe it stays as a medium factory. That is the way all the YouTube GW 36 games are being played with some of the designers playing in them.

@aftertaste I think it would be cool that a country with the radar tech and a radar station would have more advantages. Not necessarily for the ships, but for land based aircraft. Perhaps the unlimited scramble does not change but now when you have the physical radar station in the same land zone or adjacent they get first strike. I would like to use all these cool radar stations HBG has out now.

@trig I like to be more historical as well and I think this serves that well.

@aftertaste what about adding a rule for radar stations positioned on the coastline that allows for scramble or added bonuses for ships in the adjacent sea zones?

Does anyone have an official ruling from HBG/designer if this factory when Annexed by Germany reverts to a minor or stays a medium?

@broken-mortar Always China first or you will regret it late game. Then with the SNLF’s you use in China, you can land them in the DEI midgame, then on to Malaya and the FEC.

@captainnapalm FEC and ANZAC follow the UK into war. Once the UK reaches wartime income, the other two do as well, including Canada if playing with them. The rules are vague on this, but I asked the same question a while back and GHG answered it.

In the Spring Offensive, Italy moved it’s fleet into the Black sea with Turkey being neutral. Turkey (while neutral) closes the straits to any nation at war with a major nation. In this case Italy was a war with Russia. Anybody know how this is allowed?