Europa Games and Military History
Question:
Staging is not allowed for DAS missions. However, the RAW allows a fighter flying escort for a DAS mission may stage, since escort is a different mission from DAS. Was this intended?
Answer:
Yes. Escorting fighters may stage prior to escorting a DAS mission.
Source:
TEM 59/60
Question:
When firing AA against air units flying GS or DAS missions, does the AA unit fire only against those air units effectively supporting the attack or against all air units in the hex making GS or DAS mission (even those not considered for combat ratio calculations)?
Answer:
AA fire is resolved against all enemy air units flying GS/DAS missions in the hex. After AA fire is resolved, the owning player may decide which air units will participate in the combat resolution, up to the limits imposed by RE considerations.
Source:
TEM 50
Question:
Does the limit mean total number of Air Units that may be committed for GS per RE or the maximum number that counts?
For example, I am attacking with three REs of ground units (one panzer division). I have committed 8 air units to GS. Per the rules, 3 air units provide GS, the 5 others don’t contribute any SPs. The defender now fires AA and turns back one unit. May the attacker “call in” one of the surplus 5 units instead of the one that was turned back?
Answer:
First of all, combat is not mandatory, so any number of air units could be flown on GS and this would not “force” an attack, in and of itself.
However, once the phasing player initiates combat resolution for a particular hex, then combat resolution must proceed.
Any units that fire AA are automatically included in the attack, since firing AA is, per earlier rulings on this, part of resolving combat. Beyond this, however, there are no requirements that anyone attack. So yes, if you decide to begin the combat resolution for a particular attack, you are free to declare that of the x number of units available to participate, only one will do so, and if so, then GS calculations are governed by what attacks, and not by what is available to attack.
To be quite clear, the number of air units flown on a mission such as DAS and/or GS has nothing to do with how many may participate; one is always able to fly as many air units as desired and possible, the limitations are only in effect once the combat is to be resolved. Even flying the GS mission doesn’t mandate combat, as the rules make plainly clear (last paragraph, 20G.2.b).
Source:
TEM 59/60
Source:
Errata published at http://www.hmsgrd.com/Files/Europa/Second Front/Second Front.pdf
Question:
At what point is a phasing player using air for GS committed to battle? Here is example of a problem: A phasing player sends 30 air units for GS. The phasing player has 20 REs in hexes adjacent to the hex being attacked, but is not using all 20 REs in the battle of course the Allies don’t know that. After AA 20 air units are left. My question: Is the attacking player required to use 20 REs of ground units or can he use any number of units and ignore all the extra GS in the battle? If a battle is lost or if I wish to try and deceive my opponent can I use 1 unit and make a 1 to 4 odds attack?
Answer:
First of all, combat is not mandatory, so any number of air units could be flown on GS and this would not “force” an attack, in and of itself.
However, once the phasing player initiates combat resolution for a particular hex, then combat resolution must proceed.
Any units that fire AA are automatically included in the attack, since firing AA is, per earlier rulings on this, part of resolving combat. Beyond this, however, there are no requirements that anyone attack. So yes, if you decide to begin the combat resolution for a particular attack, you are free to declare that of the x number of units available to participate, only one will do so, and if so, then GS calculations are governed by what attacks, and not by what is available to attack.
To be quite clear, the number of air units flown on a mission such as DAS and/or GS has nothing to do with how many may participate; one is always able to fly as many air units as desired and possible, the limitations are only in effect once the combat is to be resolved. Even flying the GS mission doesn’t mandate combat, as the rules make plainly clear (last paragraph, 20G.2.b).
Source:
TEM 59/60
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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