FORGET any other A&A games you’ve played when playing D-Day, Bulge or Guadalcanal.
As I’ve discovered. But I really like this particular game… :-D
Thanks for the help guys. The answer was what I expected, just wasn’t sure. And as luck would have it, this situation occurred in a game just two nights ago!
Okay,… a question about casualties in unusual situations. What if a sea battle takes place between ONLY AIRCRAFT and ONLY SEA UNITS?
If I understand the rules correctly, in a sea battle, casualties are ONLY SEA UNITS (and in fact, in every type of battle this is case – AIR battles = AIR casulaties, LAND battles = LAND casualties, or airfields). So what if there are no sea units on one side? What if a guy decided to take an entire wing of aircraft (say, 15 ftr, 5 bmb) against a combined force of air/sea units? After the air battle is over, say he still has 12 Ftr, 1 Bmb left and he wiped out CAP cover for the fleet.
Did I miss something (likely)?
Hey Krieghund, you had the answers before. Got a couple more…
Are sea units that are damaged during sea combat IMMEDIATELY moved to the base card - before land battles take place? This would negate their bombardment capability in a land battle.
If a destroyer is damaged during sea combat (but not destroyed), what happens to a land unit being transported by the destroyer? The next step is “unload”… does the destroyer go to the base card BEFORE unloading, or after? Is the land unit lost?
Unclear on the sequence of WHEN damaged boats are removed, and what becomes of cargo on a damaged destroyer. Thanks…
Oh,… and I forgot these two.
Submarine movement and attack - does first player move AND attack before the second player moves his submarines? Or do both sides move their submarines and then both attack dice are rolled for both? It’s a little unclear, although the phase indicates “move submarines and attack”.
If a player puts multiple AA guns on an island, does EACH AA gun add 3 dice to the air attack? Or can only 1 AA gun fire, even if there are multiple guns present? So,… if you had 3 AA guns on Guadalcanal and the Japanese attacked, would you get 9 dice from the AA guns in the air attack phase? Or only 3? (This is where A&AR habits cause me not to think things through…)
Thanks Admiral.
Question regarding combat.
Must opposing units (air, sea or land) attack if they are in the same zone after movement phase is complete?
For example:
After movement phase, Japanese (first player) have sizeable fleet and air contingent in a sea zone that is also occupied by American (second player) fleet and air cover. Does the Japanese player HAVE to attack in air and on sea? If Japanese player is not forced to attack (i.e., he simply “passes” and doesn’t roll combat dice), can American player (as second player) engage and attack? Or is only the first player able to decide whether there will be combat?
I’ve only played a few games, but in all instances we have played that enemy units occupying the same sea, air or land zone at the end of the movement phase must roll combat. If first player decides not to attack, does second player have a choice? I don’t see any advantage in not attacking. If you choose not to attack because you’re outnumbered, won’t your opponent have the same option, and wouldn’t he attack if he had an advantage?
And now I see what you guys do BETWEEN A&A moves …
'Tider
Question has to do with the use of an ally’s transport for “bridging” troops…
Say U.S. has a transport in SZ7 (English channel). Can British troops in England use the transport to cross the channel in one turn and amphibiously assault Western Europe? Or would the troops have to board on one NCM, and offload on the next turn during Combat, even though the transport does not move out of the sea zone?
Inclination is to believe that the “bridging” would take 2 turns, since even though the transport does not change sea zones, it technically is “transporting” troops across a body of water.
Comments?
Oh, one other clarification …
Rules say that the sea zone and a group of islands within that sea zone are considered one space. Use Borneo for example … If a plane is flying TO Borneo, if it reaches SZ37 with its final movement point, can it land on Borneo, or does it take 1 more movement point to actually land on the island?
Need clarification on aircraft movement … can a fighter exhaust it’s entire movement alotment (4 spaces) to get to a sea zone for a sea battle as long as there is a carrier in the same sea zone, e.g., a fighter takes off from French Indo-China, flies to SZ30 (4 spaces) to participate in a battle. A carrier moves into the sea zone to fight in the battle also. Legal?
Like, uh …
Rolling 10 6-sided dice:
3, 6, 5, 2, 6, 5, 1, 3, 1, 6
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Switch,
If you wouldn’t mind thrashing a relative newcomer, I’d enjoy an on-line game. I’ll drop you an e-mail with my return address in the next day or two and we can set things up. Sound okay?
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'Tider
That’s an interesting observation, 88… dictating the pace is obviously something Russia would WANT to do, but it is also something that is largely out of the hands of Joe Stalin. Since Germany has considerably more production capability at the beginning of the game, Russia can only control W Russia for so long … and only if the German player lets him. But your caveat is the key: if the other allies are doing what they’re supposed to be doing (i.e., arriving in waves from the west within 2 or 3 game turns), then Russia can give Germany all it wants, and then some.
Happy hunting!
Octo is right on …
Keeping the Germans at bay is a tricky task, but with sufficient assistance from UK/US, the Russians can be a bear! If the German player goes full-force for Moscow, usually the British and Americans are landing in Western Europe within 3 or 4 turns and her warmacht goes scrambling westward. Forcing the Germans to stretch themselves to the East leaves them vulnerable. They are infantry-starved, and it’s a long ways from Germany to W Russian and Ukraine one step at a time.
My success as Russia has been to follow Octo’s general advice … build mostly infantry and counter-punch when it is economically to my advantage, e.g., when Russia can kill more units than it loses. On many occasions a short-sighted German or Japanese player has stepped within a space of Russia only to have 45 infantry and half dozen artillery step out and swat them like a fly. My favorite tactic is to “strafe” these wayward souls … bring enough firepower to kill all but one or two units, and then retreat back to Moscow. Most of our games are low-luck, and this makes it particularly easy to kill ALMOST all the enemy units and still be able to retreat. In a dice-rolling game, this can backfire if you “accidentially” kill all the enemy units and get stuck in Novosobirsk or West Russia and the enemy can slipped past you.
Bo
Fellas,
Back to the topic at hand … “what would you change”… some good ideas re: subs. A couple of others we’ve play tested for a while now …
A few others we really like …
Bo