‘Initiative’ bonuses go toward the dice roll at the beginning of each turn that determines who goes first.

By definition, ‘each player adds the best initiative bonus of any Commander in his or her army’.  I’m guessing that irrespective of type of unit (foot soldier, cavalry or armor unit), the highest initiative bonus (assuming  you have more than one commander) is added to the dice rolls at the beginning of each turn.

Hope this helps

additional questions on fighters:

1  Do fighters benefit from a cover roll when attacked by units in a clearing (this would assume low flight by the aircraft)
    or do cover rolls not apply to aircraft at all?

2  Are ‘disrupted’ aircraft removed until next casualty phase (assuming they can still fly for repairs) or do they remain
  for a full turn like other units

Thanks for the help. Just started playing the starter set and wasn’t sure on these

bummer. I live in Chillicothe, else I’d join in  :|

you have any miniatures left over?

I have French AAM’s for trade if you’re still interested. See my post dated today.

I have the following AA miniatures for trade:

French - MAS 7.5mm Rifle, soldier
            Samua S-35, tank

Polish - commander, soldier

Finnish - Infantry soldier

South Africa - Infantry soldier

Germany - Panzerjager 1, tank
              Panzerfaust 30 soldier

USA - bazooka soldier

Hungary - soldier (8mm Huzagol, 35M)

all have info cards in mint condition.  I registered on this site today so don’t have many posts at the moment.