[WarInEur] Queries

[Buckley, John D.]

Further comments on my queries of a few days ago.
 
1. Entirely agree on the 6-5 under amph assault not having the option to 1-5KG if it has no legal hex to retreat to. Opponent wanted reassurance.
 
2. As for the ports in Norway issue (Kristiansand and Oslo) well they are NOT part of the North Sea area for purposes of interdiction of Allied naval movement/assault, yet Stavangar and Bergen are. This makes little sense. In our game the  Allies have captured Krstiansand and Oslo and can happily move troops into these ports without fear of Axis naval/maritime interdiction, but they cannot do so into Bergen and Stavangar, even though they hold these ports too. Sorry, although it's not a very likely occurrence, it is something of an anomaly. Either interdiction into Kristiansand and Oslo should carry on as long as the Germans hold Denmark (does this mean until it is liberated?) or it should end in Stavangar and Bergen if the Allies are able to trace naval movement into Kristiansand and Oslo. 
 
3. Presumably the total war trigger represents an extreme national emergency for the USSR. In our game (now last month of clear weather) the German player is 6 hexes or so from Moscow, has surrounded Leningrad, Kiev and Odessa and captured two other starred cities. He has studiously avoided moving into three empty starred cities. This sounds like an extreme emergency yet there is now no chance that total war will be triggered until the summer of 1942. I realise that we need a game device to make the Soviet player wary of early war adventuring, but the three city rule doesn't add up.  It's too 'gamey' and too fixed. Some randomness and series of political triggers would help. Cities being out of communication or rail link with map edge sounds OK, but in truth the German player should be sure of what will trigger total war; I'd suggest a random element. 
 
Perhaps points 2 & 3 should be part of the thinking for CWIE2?
 
PS We have a grumpy Soviet player who has brought this on himself to a degree but does have a point about the total war trigger; and a German player who is pushing the 'spirit' of the rules notion.
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