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Rule 24E: Forming up of Air-Transported Divisions

Question:
If an Allied airborne HQ is air transported to an airbase in its airborne mode, without heavy equipment, may it form its division if all other components are in the hex? Can it provide support to all units in the hex?

Answer:
Yes. A sentence is missing from Rule 24E. The rule is repeated below, with the missing sentence added (it’s the one in italics).

E. Allied Airborne HQs

The HQ of an Allied airborne division has two sides: an airborne HQ side and a parachute HQ side:

  • The airborne HQ can be carried in a regular transport mission, as a 1-RE unit without heavy equipment. It is not air droppable.
  • The parachute HQ can be dropped in an air drop mission, as a 1-RE unit without heavy equipment. This HQ is marked with the self-supported dot, which indicates that it may only provide support to 1 RE of units. It cannot provide support at all if disrupted.

The Allied player may not use a parachute HQ to assemble a broken down airborne division: only the airborne HQ side may he used to reassemble the division.

A player may freely convert the HQ between its parachute and airborne sides during his initial phase, provided the HQ can trace a supply line to a regular source of supply.

Source:
TEM 43/44

 

Rule 24C: Does an Attack on a LC cancel its ability to participate in a SpecOps?

Question:
When planning Allied airborne and amphibious operations “an operation may not be planned for a unit that is in an enemy ZOC at that time. Once an op is planned for a unit, it must be cancelled if the unit is in an enemy ZOC, attacks, or is attacked at any time between the planning and the execution of the operation” (Rule 24C). Since amphibious planning capacity is based on LCs, not ground units, do attacks on LCs cancel operations? Example: an LC has an operation planned for Apr II 44. It moves to disembark cargo at a friendly beach on Apr I 44 and comes under attack by Axis air units. Does this cancel the planned operation (or does the ground unit have to be attacked to cancel the op)?

Answer:
Per Rule 3, a naval unit is not a unit, so no rules referring to units apply to naval units. Each initial phase, you may plan amphibious landings for as many units as you have LCs, as well as for any or all intrinsically amphibious units. Since an LC is not a unit, the rule you quoted does not refer to an LC. As long as the LC is neither sunk nor damaged, it may participate in the invasion.

Source:
TEM 66

 

Rule 24C: Cancelling parts of a Special Operation

Question:
In planning an airborne operation, such as an eight-regiment drop, may various components of a special operation be postponed or canceled without having to scrap the entire operation?

Answer:
A strict reading of the planning rule reveals that each unit is planned separately and thus can be postponed or canceled by itself.

Source:
TEM67

 

Rule 24B1: Can a units that has a special OP planned do other moves after having its op cancelled?

Question:
Can a units that has a special OP planned do other moves after having its op cancelled?

 

Answer:
When a special operation is planned for a unit it allows that unit to participate in special operations; it does not interfere with the unit doing something else, per se. Actions by the unit may cancel its ability to participate in the special operation, but it is not limited to only doing that special operation with regards to actions that do not require pre-planning.

So in all your examples, the fact that the 101st Airborne has a special operation planned for it does not interfere with its ability to be moved by air transport to a friendly owned airbase. Of course, its special operation must be cancelled if it can no longer fulfill the requirements for that rule after the air transport to the newly captured airbase, but this cancellation could take place after it had moved to the airbase; perhaps it is now in a ZoC, or perhaps there are no air transports based there (after staging) to provide air transport for the units.

The important concept to remember is that having a special operation planned for a unit is an enhancement of its abilities; it does not deny the unit the ability to perform any other actions normally allowed. Note that units are not prohibited from performing actions that can cancel the special operation; the special operation is simply cancelled if the unit does these things or if it is no longer able to meet the requirements of the rules regarding planning (Rule 24C).

Source:
TEM 59/60

 

Rule 24B1: Use of captured Air Fields and Cancelling Special Ops

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

 

Rule 24B1: Getting Ownership of hexes by Airdrop

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

Rule 24B1: Disrupted Airborne Unit getting Ownership of city

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

Rule 24B1: Disrupted Airborne Unit getting Ownership of port

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

 

 

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