Europa Games and Military History
Question:
“An undisrupted airborne units gains immediate ownership of the hex it drops in” Situation: 82nd Airborne is planned to drop on hex A, 101st Airborne is planned to drop on hex B. Hex A has an airfield in it. The 82nd starts dropping its regiments; the first dropped does not disrupt and now owns the airfield. Can the further units of the 82nd be flown in as cargo and not dropped?
Answer:
Yes.
Source:
TEM 59/60
Question:
An Allied airborne unit lands in an unoccupied Axis-owned hex that contains an city and becomes disrupted when dropping in the hex. May Axis reinforcements/replacements appear in the city in the Axis initial phase? If so, may they then conduct the same sort of in-hex combat in the combat phase that airborne and amphibious units conduct?
Answer:
Yes.
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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