Pat vs Ronnie GW AAR

[Grotius]

Thanks for your replies. Ronnie, it's very nice of you to answer my questions about stuff you did a year ago! I'll try not to bug you too much about it. It's just such an engaging AAR, and I'm learning so much from it, that it's occasionally hard to resist asking.

Hmm, so FTC doesn't restrict the CW from basing a FTR in Corsica? The FTC rule says you can't end a step in the "home country" of a friendly major power with which you don't cooperate. Corsica presumably isn't part of the "home country" of France.

[Courtenay]

ORIGINAL: Grotius


Hmm, so FTC doesn't restrict the CW from basing a FTR in Corsica? The FTC rule says you can't end a step in the "home country" of a friendly major power with which you don't cooperate. Corsica presumably isn't part of the "home country" of France.

Correct.

My answer up above is incorrect; I thought a CW FTR was moving out of France to let another CW unit in. That was not the case.

[brian brian]

A MAR unit can not use Land Movement to reach Corsica from France, so it doesn’t meet the Home Country test. Same for Sardinia and Italy.

[Grotius]

Applying that test, is Alaska part of the "home country" of the USA? Is Hawaii?

[brian brian]

Nope.

No border crossings allowed for the conditional, I think, so not 100% sure about Alaska, though no one has ever cared until MWiF decided to change the map of Alaska. Exceptions are noted formally in the rules - so Austria and East Prussia are part of Germany’s Home Country.

Territories without a capital city, mostly out in the Pacific, are slightly different also.

[Grotius]

Actually, that makes some sense. Alaska and Hawaii did not become US states until after WW2. During the war, they were territories of the US.

[PorcelainBus]

Thanks for the AAR was great - just a newbie question re" post 242? fall of Brussels - my reading of RAW 11.16.5 Resolving attacks
Add up the attacking units’ (modi
fied) combat factors, shore
bombardment and ground support. R
ound the total to the nearest
whole number (rounding 0.5 up).
Total the defending units’ factors in the same way.

Shouldn't it be a 13 defence - 9 infantry factors + 4 air and artillery after modification for weather rather than 12? So is every defensive factor "lumped together" before modifying for weather rather than individually calculated?

PB

Probably been playing the board game wrong for 20 years!!

[ashkpa]

Shouldn't it be a 13 defence - 9 infantry factors + 4 air and artillery after modification for weather rather than 12? So is every defensive factor "lumped together" before modifying for weather rather than individually calculated?

You don't round until after you add all the individual items together. So, the total 6 factors of support is rounded to 3.