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question about aligning

Posted: Thu May 04, 2023 11:40 am
by jjdenver
Hi,

To align Iraq the RAW says:
"Germany can declare that Persia or Iraq is aligning
with it during any Axis declaration of war step if
that minor is neutral and there are a total of at
least 4 German corps in any adjacent countries
(excluding the USSR and Turkey)"

Does an HQI count? HQA? GAR?

Thanks

Re: question about aligning

Posted: Thu May 04, 2023 12:08 pm
by werwolf
Never been able to align any country: Belgium, Switzerland, Persia, Venezuela or whichever nation.....

Re: question about aligning

Posted: Thu May 04, 2023 12:38 pm
by Angeldust2
jjdenver wrote: Thu May 04, 2023 11:40 am Does an HQI count? HQA? GAR?
I haven't aligned Persia or Iraq in MWIF yet, but according to RAW HQI, HQA or GAR all qualify as 1 German Corps for such purpose.

Re: question about aligning

Posted: Thu May 04, 2023 12:43 pm
by Angeldust2
werwolf wrote: Thu May 04, 2023 12:08 pm Never been able to align any country: Belgium, Switzerland, Persia, Venezuela or whichever nation.....
Only certain countries like Persia are available for alignment under certain circumstances. Most Minors are not. They get usually aligned by a Major Power only, if a Major Power on the other side declares war on them. I wonder, how you could never align Belgium? Did you necer declare war on Belgium with GER? Because in that case MWIF asks you to align Belgium to any active Major Power on the other side, usually CW or FRA.

Re: question about aligning

Posted: Thu May 04, 2023 1:20 pm
by Joseignacio
I successfully aligned Yugoslavia to the French in the surprise impulse and next. But that was 1 or 2 years ago, with an earlier version.

Re: question about aligning

Posted: Thu May 04, 2023 1:22 pm
by Joseignacio
Angeldust2 wrote: Thu May 04, 2023 12:43 pm
werwolf wrote: Thu May 04, 2023 12:08 pm Never been able to align any country: Belgium, Switzerland, Persia, Venezuela or whichever nation.....
Only certain countries like Persia are available for alignment under certain circumstances. Most Minors are not. They get usually aligned by a Major Power only, if a Major Power on the other side declares war on them. I wonder, how you could never align Belgium? Did you necer declare war on Belgium with GER? Because in that case MWIF asks you to align Belgium to any active Major Power on the other side, usually CW or FRA.
I guess he is referring to align it to CW or FR as a result of the GE DoW. Otherwise it cannot be done.

Venezuela, Switzerland, or Portugal ... cannot be aligned. This is WIF not WIF+DoD (thank God).

Or might be he is confusing with the rule about supporting minor countries.

Re: question about aligning

Posted: Thu May 04, 2023 2:08 pm
by Orm
jjdenver wrote: Thu May 04, 2023 11:40 am Hi,

To align Iraq the RAW says:
"Germany can declare that Persia or Iraq is aligning
with it during any Axis declaration of war step if
that minor is neutral and there are a total of at
least 4 German corps in any adjacent countries
(excluding the USSR and Turkey)"

Does an HQI count? HQA? GAR?

Thanks
Yes, all German corps, or larger, sized land units count. (Or should count. Haven't checked that for bugs)

Re: question about aligning

Posted: Wed Jun 14, 2023 12:18 am
by Shannon V. OKeets
The code for Germany aligning Persia and Iraq works correctly. Note that unlike aligning Turkey, where the German corps have to be on the border, to align these two minors only requires the corps to be in the adjacent country.

I haven't personally tested whether it works for Italy. For Germany doing the aligning, I have.