Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: Centuur

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ORIGINAL: Extraneous

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ORIGINAL: paulderynck

...about N/D 40

How would you build an Amph face-up without having one in the Construction Pool?

Using the 24.4.7 The Global war: Sep/Oct 1939 ~ Jul/Aug 1945 scenario he could have started an AMPH early in the war.


But before I could sign off on this plan I would have to know how the CW is doing at sea, what is the Axis doing, and what is the Axis OOB is in Occupied France.

Due to its small army and air force early in the war the CW is not usually prone to an aggressive stance and chooses to build up its forces.

More or less the CW chooses to react to aggression rather than act aggressively.


If the invasion of Brest is successful do you plan to try and hold it or is this just a raid (an in and out)?

You need to know what the Axis OOB is in Occupied France if you plan the Invasion of Europe.

If this is just a raid is it just to keep the Axis off balance or what?


(brian brian you've got our attention you are now in the hot seat continue with your plan.)

A threath towards something is usually a good idea to make sure the Euroaxis keeps more forces to guard ports in France. To actually execute an invasion into Europe by the CW alone is something totally different. If it succeeds, the question is: how do the Euroaxis respond here. If they are capable of sending a large force against you, I would suggest to leave.
If you got time as the CW (because of Axis units being transported by rail and not able to attack this turn), I would try to replace those expensive units with MIL and INF and see what happens next.

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ORIGINAL: brian brian

So I have been thinking about Steve's idea that my idea of a raid on Brest might not appeal to the AI because the Germans can generally squash the CW on the Continent in 41 and probably 42 as well.

When you are playing World in Flames as the Allies, I think you have to command the pieces quite a bit differently than the real western Allies did, and more like the Russians were more willing to do. Military commanders have to order people to most likely die. I am sure it is a very difficult thing to do in real life. But this is a game.

So I know the AI will look at combat value of units together with BP concerns and a way to value any given hex. But the AI will also have to place a value on time itself, perhaps more specifically by a value on enemy action limits. Sure, the Germans can reinforce western France and crush whatever the British Army lands there. But what does this cost them? How valuable is that to the Russians? Perhaps quite a bit more than the cost of a few MIL and INF. German rail moves into France, possibly an HQ returning there, possibly units that would otherwise be going east, maybe even tanks....all this is more than 5 or 10 BP expense for the CW. Maybe von Leeb, a Mech division, and a fast MOT are already hanging around the mouth of the Loire river for just this possibility, and those BP might be better spent on the convoy line to Murmansk. But if those German units aren't there...

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ORIGINAL: brian brian

running the saw today I started thinking about this, and some past games. if you mean opening a land campaign in the Balkans via the Eastern Mediterrranean, then I say yes this is a good strategy. It is particularly effective in a game being played the way the game is designed best - in a multi-player game where the players are going for an individual victory.

So if the British invade the Balkans and gobble up Athens and Belgrade, with a few more choice objectives on the near-horizon, the Germans get very stretched with a 3 front war. This is good for the forward progress of all of the Allies ... except the Russians, who won't be able to get as many objective hexes at the end. But it does work well. The Americans handle landing in NW Europe and the British continue on with all the resources they have built up in the Med through the whole game.

Same thing works via a British campaign into Norway and then the Baltic, but without being able to take as much from the Russians.

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2x TERR in Egypt or Palestine: Egypt TERR (2-4), Egypt TERR (3-2), and Palestine TERR (1-3).
Note: these TERR are also listed as being able to be selected under "on the Europe or Africa Maps".

Is this true?

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My Notes:
If the all Major powers on 'the first side' pass on their first impulse and a 2 or less is rolled it ends the Action Stage. 'The second side' would not get an Action Stage for that turn.

Imagine what happens when the side that has the initiative chooses to be 'the second side' on one turn and on the next turn retains the initiative and chooses to be 'the first side'.

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Example: Impulse 1 Nov/Dec 1939 the weather roll is a 6 the weather would be:
Artic: Snow (2+1)
North Temperate: Storm (2+1)
Mediterranean: Rain (2+1)
Northern Monsoon: Fair (2+1)
Southern Monsoon: Rain (2+1)
Southern Temperate: Fair (2+1)

What the (2+1) means is:
The next Impulse would be calculated as Impulse 1 + 2 = Impulse 3.
The next weather roll has 1 added to it.

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Activity limits:
All Major powers (including the units of their aligned minor countries) during their impulse
Unlimited Declarations of war
Unlimited Naval air interception missions
Unlimited Shore bombardment
Unlimited Ground support missions
Unlimited Headquarters reorganization
Unlimited TRS re-supply

These missions occur during every air mission except re-base, naval air and naval air interception
-- Unlimited Combat air patrol missions
-- Unlimited Escorting aircraft missions
-- Unlimited Intercepting aircraft missions


All Major powers (including the units of their aligned minor countries) during an enemy impulse
Unlimited Combat air patrol missions
Unlimited Escorting aircraft missions
Unlimited Intercepting aircraft missions
Unlimited Naval movement only when a unit’s base is overrun (see 11.11.6 Overruns).
Unlimited Naval interception missions
Unlimited Naval combat only in sea areas your opponent moved a unit into, and only if they did not try to initiate combat there.
Unlimited Naval air interception missions
Unlimited Shore bombardment if you are playing with defensive shore bombardment - see 11.16.2 Shore bombardment.
Unlimited Ground support missions
Unlimited Re-base aircraft missions only when a unit’s base is overrun (see 11.11.6 Overruns).

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12. Impulse Track
Impulse #. The Die roll or less necessary to end the Action Stage of the turn.
Impulse 1. N/A
Impulse 2. N/A
Impulse 3. N/A
Impulse 4. N/A
Impulse 5. -1
Impulse 6. 0
Impulse 7. 1
Impulse 8. 2
Impulse 9. 3
Impulse 10. 4
Impulse 11. 5
Impulse 12. 6
Impulse 13. 7
Impulse 14. 8

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Commonwealth activity limits:
All Major powers (including the units of their aligned minor countries) during their impulse
Unlimited Declarations of war
Unlimited Naval air interception missions
Unlimited Shore bombardment
Unlimited Ground support missions
Unlimited Headquarters reorganization
Unlimited TRS re-supply

These missions occur during every air mission except re-base, naval air and naval air interception
-- Unlimited Combat air patrol missions
-- Unlimited Escorting aircraft missions
-- Unlimited Intercepting aircraft missions


All Major powers (including the units of their aligned minor countries) during an enemy impulse
Unlimited Combat air patrol missions
Unlimited Escorting aircraft missions
Unlimited Intercepting aircraft missions
Unlimited Naval movement only when a unit’s base is overrun (see 11.11.6 Overruns).
Unlimited Naval interception missions
Unlimited Naval combat only in sea areas your opponent moved a unit into, and only if they did not try to initiate combat there.
Unlimited Naval air interception missions
Unlimited Shore bombardment if you are playing with defensive shore bombardment - see 11.16.2 Shore bombardment.
Unlimited Ground support missions
Unlimited Re-base aircraft missions only when a unit’s base is overrun (see 11.11.6 Overruns).

Naval action
No Rail movement
Unlimited Naval movements (a naval movement is the movement of 1 task force - see 11.4 Naval movement)
-- Naval moves
-- Naval Embarkation
-- Naval transport
-- Naval combats
No Land movements
-- Land moves
-- Paradrop
-- Unlimited Debarkation (units transported directly into port debark with no land movement cost)
No Land attacks
-- Land attack
-- Invasions
-- Paradrop
3x Air missions (an air mission is the flight of 1 aircraft unit)
-- Port attacks
-- Naval air missions
-- Strategic bombardment missions
-- Ground strike missions
-- Paradrop this is only possible if your ATRs are carrying units of a co-operating major power that chose a land or combined action.
-- Air transport missions
-- Re-base aircraft missions
-- Air re-supply missions

Air action
2x Rail movement (You can only rail aircraft units) it costs 1-4 rail moves to move 1 unit depending on the distance moved, see 11.10 Rail movement.
No Naval movements (a naval movement is the movement of 1 task force - see 11.4 Naval movement)
-- Naval moves
-- Unlimited Embarkation only if a co-operating major power (that chose a naval or combined action) embarks your unit.
-- Naval transport
-- Unlimited Naval combats
No Land movements
-- Land moves
-- Invasions
-- Paradrop
-- Debarkation
No Land attacks
-- Land attack
-- Invasions
-- Paradrop
Unlimited Air missions (an air mission is the flight of 1 aircraft unit)
-- Port attacks
-- Naval air missions
-- Strategic bombardment missions
-- Ground strike missions
-- Paradrop this is only possible if your ATRs are carrying units of a co-operating major power that chose a land or combined action.
-- Air transport missions
-- Re-base aircraft missions
-- Air re-supply missions

Land action
2x Rail movement (You can only rail land units or factories) it costs 1-4 rail moves to move 1 unit depending on the distance moved, see 11.10 Rail movement.
No Naval movements (a naval movement is the movement of 1 task force - see 11.4 Naval movement)
-- Naval moves
-- Unlimited Embarkation only if a co-operating major power (that chose a naval or combined action) embarks your unit.
-- Naval transport
-- Naval combat (this does not deny your naval units that stayed at sea from a previous impulse the ability to make enemy naval units fight their through)
Unlimited Land movement
-- Land moves (a land move is the movement of 1 land unit - see 11.11 Land movement)
-- Invasions (each Invasion counts as 1x Land movement)
-- Paradrop (each Paradrop counts as 1x Land movement)
-- Debarkation
Unlimited Land attacks (a land attack is an attack against 1 enemy stack by any number of units - see 11.16 Land combat).
-- Land attack
-- Invasions (each Invasion counts as 1x Land Attack)
-- Paradrop (each Paradrop counts as 1x Land Attack)
2x Air missions (an air mission is the flight of 1 aircraft unit)
-- Port attacks
-- Naval air missions
-- Strategic bombardment missions
-- Ground strike missions
-- Paradrop (each unit that Paradrops counts as 1x Air mission)
-- Air transport missions
-- Re-base aircraft missions
-- Air re-supply missions

Combined action
1x Rail movement (You can rail land units, factories, or aircraft units) it costs 1-4 rail moves to move 1 unit depending on the distance moved, see 11.10 Rail movement.
2x Naval movements (a naval movement is the movement of 1 task force - see 11.4 Naval movement)
-- Naval moves
-- Unlimited Embarkation
-- Unlimited Naval transport
-- Unlimited Naval combat
3x Land movement
-- Land moves (a land move is the movement of 1 land unit - see 11.11 Land movement)
-- Invasions (each Invasion counts as 1x Land movement)
-- Paradrop (each unit that Paradrops counts as 1x Land movement)
-- Debarkation
1x Land attack (a land attack is an attack against 1 enemy stack by any number of units - see 11.16 Land combat)
-- Land attack
-- Invasions (each Invasion counts as 1x Land Attack)
-- Paradrop (each Paradrop counts as 1x Land Attack)
5x Air missions (an air mission is the flight of 1 aircraft unit)
-- Port attacks
-- Naval air missions
-- Strategic bombardment missions
-- Ground strike missions
-- Paradrop (each unit that Paradrops counts as 1x Air mission)
-- Air transport missions
-- Re-base aircraft missions
-- Air re-supply missions

Each unit that Paradrops counts as 1x Air mission and 1x Land movement.
Each Paradrop counts as 1x Land attack.

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ORIGINAL: Extraneous

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2x TERR in Egypt or Palestine: Egypt TERR (2-4), Egypt TERR (3-2), and Palestine TERR (1-3).
Note: these TERR are also listed as being able to be selected under "on the Europe or Africa Maps".

Is this true?

Asia or the Pacific Maps

Aircraft HMS Carrier Formidable (1,5,3,0,2 Orange,5-3)
Aircraft HMS Carrier Victorious (1,5,3,0,2 Orange,5-3)
Battleship HMS King George V (7,2,2,3,0,5-3)
Battleship HMS Prince of Wales (7,2,2,2,0,5-3)
Light Cruiser HMS Dido (1,8,1,1,0,6-3)

England expects that every man will do his duty. Horatio Nelson October 1805

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ORIGINAL: Extraneous

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2x TERR in Egypt or Palestine: Egypt TERR (2-4), Egypt TERR (3-2), and Palestine TERR (1-3).
Note: these TERR are also listed as being able to be selected under "on the Europe or Africa Maps".

Is this true?

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AfA option 10: Territorial units must be set up in their home country. When randomly choosing a territorial to be placed on a map, you must pick a territorial that can set up on that map (e.g. Australians on the Pacific map). If you are playing with the Africa map (AfA/AsA option 1), “Europe” includes the African map.

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ORIGINAL: warspite1

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ORIGINAL: Extraneous

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2x TERR in Egypt or Palestine: Egypt TERR (2-4), Egypt TERR (3-2), and Palestine TERR (1-3).
Note: these TERR are also listed as being able to be selected under "on the Europe or Africa Maps".

Is this true?

Asia or the Pacific Maps

Aircraft HMS Carrier Formidable (1,5,3,0,2 Orange,5-3)
Aircraft HMS Carrier Victorious (1,5,3,0,2 Orange,5-3)
Battleship HMS King George V (7,2,2,3,0,5-3)
Battleship HMS Prince of Wales (7,2,2,2,0,5-3)
Light Cruiser HMS Dido (1,8,1,1,0,6-3)

warspite1

Why are these units starting on the Asia Pacific map?

They should be in the Construction Pool surely??

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ORIGINAL: composer99

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ORIGINAL: Extraneous

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2x TERR in Egypt or Palestine: Egypt TERR (2-4), Egypt TERR (3-2), and Palestine TERR (1-3).
Note: these TERR are also listed as being able to be selected under "on the Europe or Africa Maps".

Is this true?

Yes.

The pertinent rule from the RAW scenario booklet (§24.1.6 Setting up under the sub-heading What units to set up) is:

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AfA option 10: Territorial units must be set up in their home country. When randomly choosing a territorial to be placed on a map, you must pick a territorial that can set up on that map (e.g. Australians on the Pacific map). If you are playing with the Africa map (AfA/AsA option 1), “Europe” includes the African map.

So when you are drawing territorials for the Europe map entry, you can draw any territorial for a home country (or territory, for a handful of territorials) that is either on the Europe maps as drawn for the tabletop WiF game or on the Africa map as drawn. I would expect MWiF to follow a similar rule, subject to clarifications resulting from the unified map scale and the lack of distinct map sections as exist in the game.

There is no rule excluding Egypt & Palestine from this general rule; only a line item in the set-up chart specifying that you must draw two of the three to set up in either home country (leaving the third eligible to be drawn when you draw territorials for the Europe map generally).

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ORIGINAL: paulderynck

After the draw for Egypt/Palestine, there's one of those Territoritorials left to draw, and two opportunities to get it. One is the draw for "Europe" (which includes Africa) and the other is the draw for "Any Map".

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ORIGINAL: Graf Zeppelin


The correct CWIF default setup looks like this:
Bay of Biscay: 15cp.
Faeroes Gap: 1cp.
North Atlantic: 8cp.
US East coast: 10cp.
Caribbean Sea: 4cp.
Cape st. Vincent: 8cp.
Cape verde Basin: 1cp.
Mouths of the Amazon: 1cp.
W. Med: 7cp.
E. Med: 7cp.
Red Sea: 5cp.
Arabian Sea: 5cp.
Bay of Bengal 4cp.
E. Indian Ocean: 2cp.
Cape Naturaliste: 2cp.
South China sea: 1cp.
Convoy Points in total: 81.
Food in flames and tankers are not implemented in CWIF, at least not my version.
This setup comes when you instead of seting up by yourself and you choose "load".

Andi.

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Active Trade Agreements
A neutral Hungary must supply Germany with its resource each turn (exception: see 19.6.2 Rumania).

A neutral Iraq must supply France with 1 of its oil resources each turn. If France is conquered, or if a Vichy government has been installed (see 17.1 Creation), Iraq instead provides the oil to whichever major power or minor country controls Syria. A Vichy-controlled Syria will pass it on to the major power that installed a Vichy Government.

The Netherlands must supply Japan with 2 oil resources a turn. This continues until Japan is at war with either the Netherlands or the Commonwealth, or the US embargoes oil sales to Japan (see 13.3.2 US entry options, entry option 31 Oil embargo). A neutral Netherlands must supply the CW with all its remaining oil.

A neutral Persia must supply the Commonwealth with 1 of its oil resources each turn.

While neutral, Rumania supplies Germany with 2 oil resources and its other oil resource to Italy, each turn.

A neutral Sweden must supply Germany with 3 resources each turn.

A neutral Turkey must supply Germany with 1 resource each turn, until Italy is conquered.

A neutral Venezuela must supply the CW with half its oil and the USA with its remaining oil each turn.

The USA and Japan start the game with an agreement in place. The USA has to send 4 resources each turn (two of them must be oil resources) to Japan. Japan has to send a build point to the USA.

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Some of the differences between a Neutral Major power and a Active Major power
Each major power (exception: Vichy France, see 17.3 Units) has reserve units that you can call out when it goes to war with another major power.

A major power is a ‘Neutral major power’ if it is not at war with any other major power. If it is at war with at least 1 major power, it’s called an ‘Active major power’.

Units controlled by a neutral major power can only enter hexes controlled by that major power, by a minor country aligned with it, or by a minor country it is at war with. They can also go to sea.

A neutral major power can’t co-operate with any other major power (see 18. Co-operation)

Neutral major powers must always pick either a pass or a combined action (exception Germany in 1939 ~ see 10.1 Action types). Each naval unit a neutral major power moves (rather than each task force) counts as 1 naval move - every 5 convoy points counts as a naval unit (SiF option 9: every 2 convoy points (or any spare point) is a naval unit).

Active major powers may contribute to the convoy chain of any other major power on the same side. Neutral major powers can only contribute to convoy chains with other major powers if the rules specifically allow it (see 5.1. Trade agreements and 13.3.2 US entry options, option 9 Resources to China). Neutral major powers’ convoys can not transport resources or build points to other major powers unless the rules specifically allow it (see 5.1. Trade agreements Japan-USA, 13.3.2 US entry options, options 9 Resources to China, 15 Resources to western Allies, 17 Lend lease to China, 19 Resources to USSR, 27 Lend lease to western Allies and 30 Lend lease to USSR).

Each Active major power can use only 1 offensive chit per impulse. Neutral major powers cannot use an offensive chit.

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ASW Using 22.4.6 Light Cruisers (CLiF option 75) and 22.4.19 Convoys in Flames (CoiF option 76)
+1 ASW point for each air-to-sea factor included (including those on CVs that aren’t damaged) during fine, rain or snow;
+2 ASW points for each SCS (each BB and CV add 0)
+2 ASW for each ASW
+1 ASW for each ASW-CV (it must have a Carrier plane unit to get this add) (plus the air-to-sea factor of its Carrier plane unit)

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ASW units have a pre-fire attack but only against included enemy Submarines. In all other combats they have a value of zero.

In some ways, ASW units are treated like convoy points, specifically:
When ending their move in a sea area they must be placed in the 0 box,
At the end of the turn, they do not need to return to base,
They may not attempt to intercept nor initiate a search; and
If included during submarine combat, they count as an “Enemy Ship” and the owner may choose to take losses on ASW units or convoys (unless the other side spends 3 surprise points to select an enemy target of course).

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Germany
9.3 Compulsory declarations
Germany must declare war on Poland in the first impulse of any game that starts in Sep/Oct 1939.
Germany is now an Active Major power and has a surprise impulse against Poland.
No other Axis Major power may make any other declaration of war in this impulse.

20. The Axis declares war on: (if Japan declares war place USA entry chit in the USA (Ja) entry pool else place it in the USA (Ge/It) entry pool)
Poland, Spain, Turkey or any American country (1 USA entry chit and a 20% chance of another will be added to the USA entry pool)
Belgium, Finland, Rumania, Sweden or Switzerland (There is a 80% chance of a USA entry chit will be added to the USA entry pool)
Other minor countries (There is a 30% chance of a USA entry chit will be added to the USA entry pool),

The Commonwealth must align Poland or it automatically surrenders.
Poland should be aligned with the Commonwealth and its actions will count against Commonwealth Action Limits.

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Japan
On this or any following Axis impulse Japan may choose to align Siam.
19. An Axis player aligns a minor country ~ Siam or other minor
(There is a 30% chance of a USA entry chit will be added to the USA (Ja) entry pool for Siam)
(There is a 30% chance of a USA entry chit will be added to the USA (Ge/It) entry pool for Argentina, Bulgaria, Finland, Hungary, Iraq, Persia, Rumania, Spain, Turkey, or Yugoslavia)
This occurs when the minor country aligns with a major power (see 9.8 Aligning minors). A minor that joins a side because a major power declares war on it doesn’t count.

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9.8 Aligning minors
You can only declare one minor aligned with your major power in each friendly impulse. If a neutral minor can align with your major power (see 19.6 Soviet border rectification, 19.7 Axis minor countries and 19.8 Allied minor countries), you can declare that it is aligning with you. You can only declare one minor aligned with your major power in each friendly impulse.

Your major power controls a minor that aligns with it exactly as if another major power had declared war on it.

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(see rules: 11.18.1 Air supply, 11.18.2 HQ reorganization, and 11.18.3 TRS supply)
Each un-flipped ATR air unit (option 35: or an aircraft unit with a white range circle) can fly a air supply missions that gives you 1 reorganization point to turn a unit face-up in any land hex.
Each un-flipped Headquarters unit can reorganize units that are in range. The range of the headquarters is the middle number this is also the number of reorganization points it has.
Each un-flipped unloaded TRS has 1 reorganization point to reorganize a unit on a coastal hex in the same sea area.

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11.18.4 Reorganizing
You can only reorganize a unit that started the step face-down. This means you can’t reorganize an ATR that flew an air supply mission in this step.

It costs 1 reorganization point to reorganize a land unit in a land action, an aircraft unit in an air action, or a naval unit in a naval action. In all other cases it costs 2 points to reorganize each unit.

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9.3 Compulsory declarations
The Commonwealth and France must declare war on Germany on their first impulse after Germany has declared war on Poland.
The Commonwealth and France are now an Active Major powers and have a surprise impulse against Germany.
No other Allied major power may make any other declarations of war in this impulse.

25. The CW or France or both declare war on Germany (There is a 80% chance a USA entry chit will be added to the USA (Ge/It) entry pool)
If the CW and France don't declare war on Germany in the same impulse this done separately for both the CW and France.

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The USSR
If the Commonwealth wants the Polish Pilots the USSR needs to wait and do this on the Second Allied impulse. Otherwise the Polish Pilots in Eastern Poland will only become available to the Commonwealth after Germany and the USSR go to war.

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19.5.1 Eastern Poland
The USSR can exercise its Nazi-Soviet Pact rights to occupy eastern Poland during any Allied land movement step. However, it can only exercise those rights if Poland has not been conquered.

You exercise those rights by moving a land unit into any hex of Eastern Poland.

Once you exercise those rights, the part of Poland to the east of the partition line becomes conquered by the Soviets. Move any Axis units there to the nearest Axis controlled hex they can stack in. Any Allied (except Soviet) units there are destroyed. They are removed from the game (internment) until Germany and the USSR are at war, at which point they may be added to the Commonwealth force pool if the Commonwealth player so desires.

26. The USSR controls Eastern Poland (There is a 70% chance a USA entry chit will be removed from the USA (Ge/It) entry pool)
The USSR can exercise its Nazi-Soviet Pact rights to occupy eastern Poland during any Allied land movement step. However, it can only exercise those rights if Poland has not been conquered (see 19.5.1 Eastern Poland). This will not make the USSR a Active Major power.

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Germany
Germany should declare war on Denmark (Other minor) to jeep Allied naval units from using the Baltic Sea.
Germany may want to declare war on the Netherlands (Other minor) to be better positioned to invade Belgium and then France.

20. The Axis declares war on: (if Japan declares war place USA entry chit in the USA (Ja) entry pool else place it in the USA (Ge/It) entry pool)
Poland, Spain, Turkey or any American country (1 USA entry chit and a 20% chance of another will be added to the USA entry pool)
Belgium, Finland, Rumania, Sweden or Switzerland (There is a 80% chance of a USA entry chit will be added to the USA entry pool)
Other minor (There is a 30% chance of a USA entry chit will be added to the USA entry pool),

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Italy
Italy may want to declare war on:
1) The Commonwealth to keep them from being able perform a surprise port attack on their fleet.
2) France to assist Germany against France and force the Commonwealth to declare war on Italy.
3) On both the Commonwealth and France to keep the Commonwealth from being able perform a surprise port attack on their fleet and to assist Germany against France.
Declaring war on the Commonwealth, France, or both will make Italy an Active Major power. Italy would have a surprise impulse against any major power it declares war on.

7. Italy declares war on CW or France or both (70% chance a USA entry chit will be added to the USA (Ge/It) entry pool).

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Japan
Japan may occupy one or more Chinese cities on this or any following impulse.
10. Japan occupies Chinese city: (40% chance a USA entry chit will be added to the USA (Ja) entry pool)
Each time a Japanese controlled land unit occupies (or reoccupies) a Chinese controlled city in China, there is the possibility of an outrage like the rape of Nanking occurring, an atrocity that the USA public finds out about. You do not roll for cities controlled by the Japanese as a result of a Chinese surrender.


Japan may want to militarizes Marshalls sea area on this or any following impulse.
3. Japan militarizes Marshalls sea area (There is a 60% chance a USA entry chit will be added to the USA (Ja) entry pool)
This occurs as soon as Japan moves the first unit into any hex on the border of the Marshalls sea area.

Japan may want to declare war on the USSR on this or any following impulse. As long as the war is limited to the Asia maps this will not make the USSR a Active Major power.


9. Japan declares war on the USSR (There is a 50% chance a USA entry chit will be added to the USA (Ja) entry pool)

There is no reason to close the Burma Road at this time.
6. Japan forces closure of Burma Road (There is a 50% chance a USA entry chit will be added to the USA (Ja) entry pool)
The Burma Road is one way that the Allies can transport resources (see 13.3.2 US entry options, entry option 9. Resources to China) and build points (entry option 17. Lend lease to China) to China. The Axis can close it by physical occupation but Japan can also close it by diplomatic pressure on the Commonwealth.

If Japan does this, an Allied major power can’t transport resources or build points to China via the Burma Road or French Indo-China until it is at war with Japan or the USA chooses US entry option 24. Re-open Burma Road. China can still use the road to transport its own resources. You only have to roll a die for diplomatic closure of the Burma Road, not for physical closure.

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22. The CW or France or both declare war on Italy (1 USA entry chit and a 20% chance of another will be removed from the USA (Ge/It) entry pool).
If the CW and France don't declare war on the Italy in the same impulse this done separately for both the CW and France.

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Thorshavn, Faroes islands Notional
You can’t invade a hex in storm, snow, or blizzard. You can only invade from the 1,2,3, or 4 sea box.

The notional unit has 1 combat factor, modified by:
No (if it is a city hex +1);
No (if the hex is in the home country of the major power that controls the hex +1);
No (+1 if it is not stacked with a land unit, but is in the ZOC of a friendly corps or army +1));
Yes (+ the shore bombardment modifier for each invading unit);
Yes (if it cannot trace a basic supply path of any length -1); and
No (if surprised (see 15. Surprise) -1).

Denmark Strait sea zone (Arctic weather zone):
Sea box 0 (shore bombardment modifier none),
Sea box 1 (shore bombardment modifier 2),
Sea box 2 (shore bombardment modifier 1),
Sea box 3 (shore bombardment modifier 0),
Sea box 4 (shore bombardment modifier 0).

Add the notional unit’s combat factor to those of any land units in the hex. Then modify their total combat factors for terrain and weather.

Here the terrain has no effect on the strength of the notional unit.