Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: brian brian

I've been wondering about resources received via Trade Agreement. Specifically, let's say the USA picks Entry Option 15, Resources to Western Allies, and the next turn loand an Oil point to France.

Could the USA simply deliver one of the Oil resources coming in from Venezuela to the French port of Martinique?

With it's CP?

With a CW CP?

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ORIGINAL: rkr1958

Here's the situation.
1. The allies are the phasing player.
2. The CW has taken a land and the French a combine.
3. CW (RN) only ships/subs in the West Med and Italian Coast.
4. CW (RN) and French ships and planes and Italian ships in the East Med.
5. The French initiate a successfully naval combat in the East Med that end with the surviving Italian ships having to abort.

The aborting Italian ships are able to return to base at La Speiza through either the Italian Coast or Western Med without the CW (i.e., RN) have a chance to intercept. Is this correct since the CW took a land and there's only RN ships in those two sea areas?

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ORIGINAL: Shannon V. OKeets

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ORIGINAL: rkr1958

Here's the situation.
1. The allies are the phasing player.
2. The CW has taken a land and the French a combine.
3. CW (RN) only ships/subs in the West Med and Italian Coast.
4. CW (RN) and French ships and planes and Italian ships in the East Med.
5. The French initiate a successfully naval combat in the East Med that end with the surviving Italian ships having to abort.

The aborting Italian ships are able to return to base at La Speiza through either the Italian Coast or Western Med without the CW (i.e., RN) have a chance to intercept. Is this correct since the CW took a land and there's only RN ships in those two sea areas?

As always, it depends.

If the aborting 'ships' are subs, then they cannot be intercepted.

If the Commonwealth and Italy are not at war, then they cannot be intercepted.

If the Commonwealth ships are in too low a section box (the weather affects this decision), such that they have zero probability of successfully intercepting, then the program skips the unnecessary die roll and treats it as if the Commonwealth cannot intercept.

If the aborting ships can get to base through one of the sea areas, then the program assumes that is what the Italy player will do and there is no interception attempt. Italy could choose to go through a sea area that could possibly intercept them by using Ctrl Left Click - that is up the the Italy player.

EDIT: also, units that are disorganized cannot initiate an interception.

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ORIGINAL: rkr1958

game turn attached, in case it's a bug.

Do I need to make a post in the tech forum to officially report this bug?

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ORIGINAL: jjdenver

I have another question. Do ground strikes affect air units in MWIF like they do in the boardgame? Or only land units?

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ORIGINAL: paulderynck

AFAICS from the rules - they do. However it is questionable as to whether their ZoC constitutes an "enemy" ZoC for the purpose of denying the placement of a partisan since an inactive Vichy is neutral.

I'd say their ZoC doesn't matter.

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ORIGINAL: rkr1958

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ORIGINAL: paulderynck

AFAICS from the rules - they do. However it is questionable as to whether their ZoC constitutes an "enemy" ZoC for the purpose of denying the placement of a partisan since an inactive Vichy is neutral.

I'd say their ZoC doesn't matter.

Do you know how MWiF plays it? For example, if I had an inactive Vichy unit adjacent to Bayonne, would MWiF let me place a French partisan there if one showed up?

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ORIGINAL: Shannon V. OKeets

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ORIGINAL: rkr1958

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ORIGINAL: paulderynck

AFAICS from the rules - they do. However it is questionable as to whether their ZoC constitutes an "enemy" ZoC for the purpose of denying the placement of a partisan since an inactive Vichy is neutral.

I'd say their ZoC doesn't matter.

Do you know how MWiF plays it? For example, if I had an inactive Vichy unit adjacent to Bayonne, would MWiF let me place a French partisan there if one showed up?

I just tested this using a saved game. The Vichy units in Vichy exert ZOCs into Occupied France for the purposes of denying partisans.

But note that in your case, you would still have to cover Bordeaux to prevent a partisan there. And I don't believe the Vichy unit's ZOC wouldn't add to the Notional unit if Bayonne were to be invaded.

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ORIGINAL: Orm

I am not sure if this qualifies as easy although it is definitely easier than opening a different game.

You can see it on the colour of the factory stack. So just remove all counters and look around. Green factories are railed in factories. And if the factory stack is an empty, white, stack then the factory has been railed out.

Several examples of railed out factories in the picture below. And the factory in Ufa is railed in.

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ORIGINAL: Courtenay

Is there any way to see if a side has already railed a unit across a straight this turn, aside from trying to rail a unit and being told that you can't do that move?

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ORIGINAL: rkr1958

The USA is neutral, but US entry option 11, US East Coast Escorts is in play. The USA elects for their CV, CA and CL to participate in the combat. This I knew. But what I didn't know was that by participating in the combat, US CP's in the sea area are now eligible to take losses. My question is is this correct?

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ORIGINAL: Joseignacio

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ORIGINAL: Courtenay

Is there any way to see if a side has already railed a unit across a straight this turn, aside from trying to rail a unit and being told that you can't do that move?

Is there a limit for this?

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ORIGINAL: Joseignacio

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ORIGINAL: rkr1958

The USA is neutral, but US entry option 11, US East Coast Escorts is in play. The USA elects for their CV, CA and CL to participate in the combat. This I knew. But what I didn't know was that by participating in the combat, US CP's in the sea area are now eligible to take losses. My question is is this correct?

Without looking at the rules, and by the logics of the game no ---> USA is not at war so his convoys cannot be fired upon, however the SCSs and CVs are escorting so they can join the fray.

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ORIGINAL: Joseignacio

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ORIGINAL: rkr1958

The USA is neutral, but US entry option 11, US East Coast Escorts is in play. The USA elects for their CV, CA and CL to participate in the combat. This I knew. But what I didn't know was that by participating in the combat, US CP's in the sea area are now eligible to take losses. My question is is this correct?

Without looking at the rules, and by the logics of the game no ---> USA is not at war so his convoys cannot be fired upon, however the SCSs and CVs are escorting so they can join the fray.

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ORIGINAL: paulderynck

No need to rush to judgement.