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I was wondering why I couldn't move some minor nation units out of their home countries and searched the rules for an answer. I found in the rules that no more than half of a minor nation's units can be out of the country. However I have two Bulgarian units out of their home country while only one remains at home.

I didn't lose any Bulgarian units, nor did I remove any Bulgarian air unit. Apparently the program is very good at enforcing the stay at home limit after a country has at least half of it's units outside the home nation.

Unfortunately it appears to be confused at the moment when, with say three units, there are two minor nation units in the home country and only one outside. I found that I could move that second Bulgarian unit into Yugoslavia long before I knew that I shouldn't be able to.

Not an earth shattering fatal programming error and I do like getting a little use out of that second Bulgarian unit as a garrison in Yugoslavia.

Omnius

This is one of the most common rules to be misunderstand and you just made the same mistake that almost all of us makes at first. The rule do not say that "no more than half of a minor nation's units can be out of the country".

The rule say that you can only move a minor country land or aircraft unit from the home country if half or more of its onmap land and aircraft units are inside its home country. Hence 2 units out of three can be outside the home country but the third unit must remain.

If need be I can explain this in another way.

Cut from RAC: 19.4 Minor country units
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Restrictions on use
Minor country units can move and fight outside their home country. However, you can only move a minor
country land or aircraft unit from inside the home country to outside the home country, if half or more of its on- map
land and aircraft units are currently inside its home country (exception: Rumania becomes a full Axis ally ~ see
19.6.2).