New to the game - Basic Questions

[rkr1958]

For purposes of activating a country when, for example 4 corps in an adjacent country are required, do HQ units count as corps?

[Courtenay]

ORIGINAL: rkr1958

For purposes of activating a country when, for example 4 corps in an adjacent country are required, do HQ units count as corps?

Yes. MWiF indicates them as Armies or Army Groups, but that is for flavor. For all game purposes they are counted as corps.

[Mayhemizer_slith]

ORIGINAL: Courtenay

ORIGINAL: rkr1958

For purposes of activating a country when, for example 4 corps in an adjacent country are required, do HQ units count as corps?

Yes. MWiF indicates them as Armies or Army Groups, but that is for flavor. For all game purposes they are counted as corps.

Do divisions or planes count at all?

[paulderynck]

ORIGINAL: Mayhemizer

ORIGINAL: Courtenay

ORIGINAL: rkr1958

For purposes of activating a country when, for example 4 corps in an adjacent country are required, do HQ units count as corps?

Yes. MWiF indicates them as Armies or Army Groups, but that is for flavor. For all game purposes they are counted as corps.

Do divisions or planes count at all?

No

[rkr1958]

ORIGINAL: Courtenay

ORIGINAL: rkr1958

For purposes of activating a country when, for example 4 corps in an adjacent country are required, do HQ units count as corps?

Yes. MWiF indicates them as Armies or Army Groups, but that is for flavor. For all game purposes they are counted as corps.

My understanding is that the 4 corps do NOT need to be in supply. That is, one or more can be out of supply. Correct? Do they need to be organized?

[Orm]

They are counted even if disorganized and out of supply. Being there is enough. Enemy ZOC does not matter either.

[rkr1958]

ORIGINAL: Orm

They are counted even if disorganized and out of supply. Being there is enough. Enemy ZOC does not matter either.

Wow ... just get them there and wait!

Do they have to be Italian or could one of the corps be an Iraqi corps aligned to the Italians?

[Orm]

All Italians or all Germans. The Iraqi one does not count.

[Joseignacio]

ORIGINAL: rkr1958

ORIGINAL: Orm

They are counted even if disorganized and out of supply. Being there is enough. Enemy ZOC does not matter either.

Wow ... just get them there and wait!

Do they have to be Italian or could one of the corps be an Iraqi corps aligned to the Italians?

I had this done once. I was too involved in Poland in the first turns, in order to crack it in one or max two impulses and run back to France with all.

The french player made a bad ratio attack in the Siegfried line and was lucky, so I had to block it but he could put more planes and Inf than I could and for a short time he controlled up to two hexes, which were enough to activate ... the Yugoslavian /( I couldn't believe that YUG was adjacent to GE but it was because AUT was part of GE [:@][X(] .

It just made a little bit more difficult to take YUG, for they had a better deployment, at the cost of the roll for a chit loss for the USA player and a gift of +0.5 in production for GE. Of course they had to go back pretty soon but they made their heroic action [:(] .

[paulderynck]

You were fortunate the Yugos didn't take out the Austrian oil, Vienna and Bratislava. And without Poland conquered, this could also have cut off the resources from Hungary and Turkey and Ploesti.

[Joseignacio]

Well, they menaced the Vienna and Bratislava resources, I used ZOC defense with some MIL units hastily railed there, taking advance of the weakness of the Yugo units.

But Poland was not a problem, with all the strength sent there, it fell in 2 impulses, almost in 1, so by turn end the polish route was open and the Wehrmacht being railed south and west.

[paulderynck]

If I were running the Yugos, their CAV would have been on the oil (or possibly just ZoCing it and threatening to take Prague) and a 3-moving INF would be in Bratislava (via Vienna), on the same impulse they were aligned, as it sounds like there were no German units in Austria to begin with.

[Mayhemizer_slith]

Question about supply rules:

Convoy is not in sea area and land units need supply.

Does it matter if transporter is organized or disorganized to provide supply? Can I bring transporter with land unit to sea area, take land unit to port leaving transporter to sea and attack?

[Orm]

A TRS, and AMPH, provide supply even if disorganized.

It can sail out with a loaded unit and it will at once provide supply. The unit can then invade and the TRS will still provide supply as long as it remains in the sea area.

[Mayhemizer_slith]

Thanks

[Joseignacio]

ORIGINAL: paulderynck

If I were running the Yugos, their CAV would have been on the oil (or possibly just ZoCing it and threatening to take Prague) and a 3-moving INF would be in Bratislava (via Vienna), on the same impulse they were aligned, as it sounds like there were no German units in Austria to begin with.

Couldn't tell, to be true. I think there weren't any and it happened more or less as you say.

[Joseignacio]

Deleted.

[rkr1958]

CW, Take Special Actions. Add Polish Units. Should I do this? Pros? Cons?

[paulderynck]

Depends if the HQ got interned and Russia is at war with Germany. If so - yes definitely. (The Div is nice to get too, but not a lone decider like the HQ.)

As for the Mech and Mot, it depends if better units are already in your force pool - in which case why dilute it before those better units get built first?

[Joseignacio]

I would take all.

A div is not only nice but very useful in the frequent CW invasions...

An HQ no need to explain.

And the mech and mot are not so bad, at least the mech, so it's not very important the dilution effect because:

1 They are only 2 units
2 In the case of the mech, a couple of points in a 40 factors attack wont't change it much. 2 points blitz for being a mech can change much more a battle, that's the important point, so you almost lose nothing with the mech.

You could even have interned the pilots, which is very frequent, for by the second impulse usually there is few to defend and the fate is decided...