West Coast units

[Mark VII]

Will some ground and air units assigned to the West Coast automatically change to another HQ as the game progresses? Or, will the Allied player need to spend political points for all units that he wants to move out?

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[Xargun]

ORIGINAL: Mark VII

Will some ground and air units assigned to the West Coast automatically change to another HQ as the game progresses? Or, will the Allied player need to spend political points for all units that he wants to move out?

I would hope the Allies would have to spend PP - those units are there to protect the West Coast and even in 44 while winning I bet those units were still there - "Just in case".

Xargun

[Drongo]

ORIGINAL: Mark VII

Will some ground and air units assigned to the West Coast automatically change to another HQ as the game progresses? Or, will the Allied player need to spend political points for all units that he wants to move out?

You always will have to pay to assign them to another command.

However, the majority of the land and air reinforcements arriving in the US after the game starts will already belong to HQ's other than West Coast so you won't have to worry about these being restricted.

[Mark VII]

Thankyou for your quick thoughts. Going thru the reinforcement list I noticed all of the units already assigned to overseas HQ's. But also saw some ground units that historically served overseas coming in as West Coast HQ. Just did not want to pay for them and find out later that in time they would convert over to an overseas HQ by themselves. At the start of the game there is an A-20 and P-40 group in the West Coast HQ that are both 2/3's full and could be very helpful someplace else.

ORIGINAL: Drongo

You always will have to pay to assign them to another command.

However, the majority of the land and air reinforcements arriving in the US after the game starts will already belong to HQ's other than West Coast so you won't have to worry about these being restricted.

[Drongo]

ORIGINAL: Mark VII
At the start of the game there is an A-20 and P-40 group in the West Coast HQ that are both 2/3's full and could be very helpful someplace else.

What a proper bunch of bastards those scenario designers are.

BTW, those two groups you mentioned never fought in the Pacific (IIRC), they both were sent to the European Theatre. I think in their case that paying a PP cost to transfer them to a Pacific Command is justified.