Can French ships rebase to British ports?

If you conquer France, the whole fleet goes over to the Allies right? That seems like a big con. What are the pros?

<t> Activating with Italian subs doesn't do anything about the need to get them out to sea. If based in Germany they can't get far out and stay at sea with a decent chance of being effective, can they? Is the idea to base them in Brest or somewhere in Africa? If they stay at sea, then the CW knows ...

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Well, the USSR army at the beginning of the game is very small but the limit of combineds is really frustrating. However, they have units enough to crack the Rumanians which cannnot present a serious front, while the GE player is busy in ...

One of the big problems I had with WiF when I used to play it was that it didn't seem feasible for the Germans to bother with submarines. The cost of taking a naval impulse always seemed too great, especially once at war with Russia. Can someone describe how they make it work?

Ah, looked again in the new autosave folder I created and the files are now there! Enclosing a zip from the start of vichy...

Here's a save file at the end of turn phase, a little before conquest. Still can't find the autosave files. Verified that I have autosave on and set the directory, but nothing is getting stored there except empty folder.

I wonder if that's a BootCamp thing. Are you using a Mac? I had the same problem. Thanks for posting the fix!

<t> Where would I find that? I actually can't find any of my saved files through the regular windows interface, even though I know they are there. And when I try to load an autosave using the game interface, it only shows stuff from back in October when I first started playing again. And the files I ...

<t> After choosing vichy/free france territories, it goes to a fleet rebase digression, including the remaining French air and the fleet. The air are weird: when I select them it says they have been overrun and have nowhere to go and basically forces me to destroy them, but they still show up in the ...

<t> And thanks for pointing me to the charts on the production multiples. I was reading the "Rules as Coded" and it wasn't clear from that.<br/>
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Also curious to hear the pros and cons regarding CW declaring war on Italy vs. the opposite. I'm thinking if the Italian fleet ever ventures out to ...

<t> Ah, good point about the cost-effectiveness of conquering Norway. I hadn't really thought about that. <br/>
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It has indeed been many years since I was a big WIF player - back in high school in the '80s. Started before Planes in Flames, played again some in grad school.<br/>
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Some ...

<t> I used to play WIF FTF (30 years ago) and am just now really starting to fiddle with MWIF. <br/>
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(1) I've seen fighters in lower sea boxes get included in combats where their search number wasn't rolled, but can't find anywhere in the rules that covers that. Can someone direct me to the ...

<t> I don't know if this has anything to do with using BootCamp on a Mac, but the saved game folder only contains one game: Fast Start Global War.GAM, when I look at it in the windows explorer. But the WIF interface shows all my saved games properly. Anyone know what's up with that? I want to move ...

<t> I've heard a number of people complaining about various things, and I just wanted to say how impressed I am with the product. I've been waiting for this for many years, and am just thrilled to be able to play WIF on the computer. Even with the solitaire version, I was able to play the Barbarossa ...

<t> So the rules say that unused convoys for one major power (say, the Commonwealth) can be used to ship resources for an allied major power (say, France). But I can't figure out how to make this happen. Can someone explain the process? I had 2 French convoys in the E. Med. that got killed; I'm ...

My Romanian HQ seems to be unable to reorganize anything. On a land impulse, it says it's taking 2 points to reorganize even a Romanian inf. Is there something I'm missing in the rules, or is this a bug?

But wouldn't that make the game virtually unplayable? Wouldn't lots of people be complaining about it? Or is it only on the solitaire version?

Thanks, that's super-useful info! Any insight into the lack of a retreat step before advance after combat?

<t> In the Barbarossa quick setup, there are a couple of Russian units in the clear that you can ground strike, get out of supply, and then should be able to overrun as they have a 2 defense. However, the game would not let me conduct the overrun. In the combat phase, the defense shows up properly ...