On-line Rules

On-line Rules

The links below cover the official rules, scenarios, diplomatic and research appendices, player aids, scenarios and maps. The rules reflect both the published rules and all changes to those rules through June 30th, 2010.

Introduction
   Preface
   Purchase Information

Components and Concepts (1-9)
   1 - Game Components
   2 - Overview
   3 - Definitions
   4 - Terrain and the Mapboard
   5 - Mapboard Boxes
   6 - Counters
   7 - Scenarios
   8 - Sequence of Play
   9 - Offensive Operations

Ground Operations (10-16)
   10 - Ground Units
   11 - Partisans
   12 - Stacking
   13 - Movement
   14 - Attrition Combat
   15 - Offensive Combat
   16 - Exploitation

Air Operations (17-19)
   17 - Air Units
   18 - Air Operations
   19 - Air Combat

Naval Operations, Air-Naval Operations (20-23)
   20 - Naval Units
   21 - Naval Operations
   22 - Naval Interception and Combat
   23 - Air-Naval Operations

Strategic Warfare (24-26)
   24 - Strategic Warfare
   25 - Submarine Warfare
   26 - Strategic Bombing

Logistics (27-34)
   27 - Unit Construction
   28 - Redeployment
   29 - Hex Control
   30 - Supply
   31 - Bridgeheads
   32 - Fortifications
   33 - Oil
   34 - Weather

Economics (35-40)
   35 - The Year Start Sequence and BRP Calculations
   36 - Mobilization
   37 - Industrial Centers
   38 - Key Economic Areas
   39 - Spending Limits
   40 - BRP Grants

Research and Intelligence (41-48)
   41 - Research
   42 - Production
   43 - Atomics
   44 - Intelligence
   45 - Counter-Intelligence
   46 - Espionage
   47 - Covert Operations
   48 - Codebreaking

Diplomacy and Politics (49-53)
   49 - Diplomacy
   50 - Declarations of War
   51 - Pearl Harbor and Allied Unpreparedness
   52 - Lent Units
   53 - Major Power Cooperation Restrictions

Surrender of Major Powers (54-62)
   54 - Surrender of Major Powers
   55 - German Surrender
   56 - Italian Surrender
   57 - Japanese Surrender
   58 - French Surrender
   59 - British Surrender
   60 - Russian Surrender
   61 - Chinese Surrender
   62 - U.S. Elections

The Nazi-Soviet Pact and Eastern Europe (63-69)
   63 - Eastern Europe
   64 - Poland
   65 - The Baltic States
   66 - Bessarabia
   67 - The Finnish Border Hexes
   68 - The Ukraine
   69 - German Economic Interests

British Commonwealth (70-74)
   70 - Canada and South Africa
   71 - Australia
   72 - India
   73 - Gibraltar
   74 - British Asian Colonies

France (75-77)
   75 - Restrictions on French Forces
   76 - French Indochina and other French Asian Colonies
   77 - Vichy France

China, Manchuria and Siberia (78-81)
   78 - Nationalist China
   79 - Communist China
   80 - Restrictions on Chinese Forces
   81 - Manchuria, Siberia and the Urals Box

Minor Countries (82-89)
   82 - Minor Countries
   83 - Conquest of Minor Countries
   84 - Associated Minor Countries
   85 - Minor Allies
   86 - Scandinavia
   87 - Western Europe
   88 - The Middle East
   89 - The Far East

Index

Other
   Designer's Notes
   Credits

Questions and Answers
Unofficial Group Wisdom

Tables and Player Aids
   Ground Combat
      Attrition Table
      Combat Results Table
   Air
      Air Combat Table
      Air Nationality Chart
   Naval
      Air Defense Table
      Harbor Attack Table
      Naval Activities Table
      Naval Attack Table
      Naval Interception Table
      Naval Nationality Chart
      Naval Repair and Construction Costs
      Pearl Harbor Surprise Table
      Search Table
      Submarine Attack Table
      Surprise Table
   Strategic Warfare
      Air Range Effects Table
      Carrier Effects Table
      Raider Table
      Strategic Warfare Combat Table
      SW Combat Modifiers Table
   Major Power Surrender
      British Resistance Table
      British Concession Table
      Chinese Resistance Table
      Free French Forces Table
      Japanese Resistance Table
      Post Surrender Italian Forces Table
      Russian Resistance Table
      U.S. Election Modifiers
      U.S. Election Results
      Vichy French Forces Table
   Miscellaneous
      British Commonwealth
      BRP Costs Chart
      Major Power Partisan Table
      Minor Country Forces Table
      Winter Table

Diplomatic Tables
   Diplomatic Points
   Russo - German Tensions
   U.S. - Axis Tensions
   U.S. - Japanese Tensions
   Diplomatic Tables
      Balkans
      Belgium/Luxembourg
      Finland
      France
      Greece
      Ireland
      Italy
      Norway
      Spain
      Sweden
      Turkey
      Ukraine
      Vichy France

Research Tables
   General Research
   Air Research
   Naval Research
   Military Research
   Atomic Research
   Intelligence Research

Scenarios
   Scenario Introduction

   Campaign Game
      Global Scenario
          Scenario Cards Force Pools Game Aids (.zip)
      European Scenario
          Scenario Cards Force Pools Game Aids (.zip)
          Pacific-Related Events
      Pacific Scenario
          Scenario Cards Force Pools Game Aids (.zip)
          WA Research

   Historical Campaign Game
      Historical Events Chart
      Historical Global Scenario
          Scenario Cards Force Pools Game Aids (.zip)
      Historical European Scenario
          Scenario Cards Force Pools Game Aids (.zip)
      Historical Pacific Scenario
          Scenario Cards Force Pools Game Aids (.zip)

   Specialized European Scenarios
      Barbarossa
      Battle of the Atlantic
          Scenario Cards and Record Sheets Game Aids (.zip)
      North Africa
          Force Pools and Record Sheets Game Aids (.zip)

   Pacific Battle Scenarios
      Coral Sea
      Leyte Gulf
      Midway

   Unofficial Scenarios
      Cartwheel
      Guadalcanal
      Imphal
      Singapore

Sequences of Play
   Official
      Game Turn
      Player Turn
   Unofficial
      Murmansk Convoys
      Naval Combat
      Naval Interception
      Patrols
      Raiders
      Strategic Bombing
      YSS

Maps
   Terrain Effects Chart
   Europe
   Pacific

Last Updated: June 28, 2010