Europa Games and Military History
Question:
If an Air Drop Operation is planned targeting an airfield, but the first unit dropped already gains ownership of the airfield, can the successive operations then be cancelled and the remaining units simply be flown in as cargo?
Answer:
Yes.
Source:
TEM 59/60
Question:
Suppose an air unit drops disrupted into a hex containing a port. May Axis naval units continue to use the port? If so, may Axis naval transports land ground units at the port? If so, may they then conduct the same sort of in-hex combat in the combat phase that airborne and amphibious units conduct?
Answer:
They may use the port there, but ground units may not be disembarked at the port. Rule 6 lists “In general, a unit may not enter a hex occupied by an enemy unit. Exceptions to this are covered in the appropriate rules.” Note that the naval transport rules do not list this as an exception.
Source:
Errata published at http://www.hmsgrd.com/Files/Europa/Second Front/Second Front.pdf
Question:
(Rule 20F2 and 24) Page 26, Rule 20F2 says ground units may air drop in any hex except prohibited, mountain, wooded-swamp, or forest. Page 35, Rule 24 says units and supplies may air drop in any land hexes. Which is correct?
Answer:
Rule 20F2 is correct; Rule 24’s “may air drop in any land hexes, including hexes occupied by enemy units” is intended to let you know that you can drop in enemy occupied hexes, but I see how you misinterpreted the rule the way you did. Perhaps the rule should remove the “any” or even add a rules back-reference: “may air drop in land hexes (per Rule 20F2), including hexes occupied by enemy units.”
Source:
Errata published at http://www.hmsgrd.com/Files/Europa/Second Front/Second Front.pdf
Alexander Alexandrovich Novikov, Air Marshal of the Soviet Union, in 1944
An Europa-map of the island of Sicily, assembled from maps 26 and 27 from Second Front.
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