Europa Games and Military History
Question:
Why introduce the concept of “Com” RPs when Italian and German RPs must be tracked separately anyway?
Answer:
“Com” does not refer to “combined Italian and German”, it refers to “combined infantry and artillery”. Interventionist units are the only ones which do not require separate handling of inf and art RPs.
Source:
[AEG, Developer, 1998]
Question:
The two Italian landing craft are never released if there is no Loyalist landing on Mallorca. Is this an oversight?
Answer:
That’s how it was designed. As an option, you could release these units when you first call up the Italian Navy for on map use, and then keep the units from then on. Note that you couldn’t have more than two LCs present, in any case.
[AEG, Developer, 1998]
Question:
If the Insurgent player decides to use the Italian naval forces for on-map operations, must all 3x 6-pt TFs be used the same turn? Or is he allowed to use each TF in different turns? (Or even use them on their reduced sides, in order to have smaller but more TFs with which to “bother” the Loyalist player?)
Answer:
He must use them all in the same turn. Note that the OB entry says “3x 6-pt Task Forces…” not “up to 3x 6-pt Task Forces”. But note that while the 3 naval units are released at the same time per the OB, they don’t have to operate together while on the map.
Source:
[DPS, Rules Judge, 05-Feb-05]
Question:
How “in-play” are the air units in the Italian intervention box? I note that the naval units can be brought in at any time by the Insurgents, so long as they have not used their intervention for the year. All air units can come on board so long as the Loyalists allow it to happen via their own actions. I ask because the CTV has an air unit available in the intervention holding box on I Aug 36, so this unit may or may not be allowed into the ARP calculations when the I Sep 36 air cycle begins. I.e., though the CR32 arrives in Sep 36, they do not count for ARP calculations per the ruling above. Do the Mxd A floatplanes count for the calculations, or is their placement in the intervention box similar in nature to the France holding box and they therefore don’t count?
Answer:
For ARP purposes, don’t count any CTV air units in the Italian intervention box if they haven’t been released.
Source:
[DPS, Rules Judge, 13-Jun-05]
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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