Italian Surrender

[smckenzie]

Please define Africa for the purpose of Italian Surrender?

[Mark]

All the territories between Morocco and Egypt inclusive (including the Sinai) and between Egypt and South Africa inclusive + Madagascar.

[smckenzie]

Thanks.

Actually, Sinai was the issue here.  The It transport has survived a number of naval combats, and so It can get the chance to avoid a DR for surrender by invading Sinai(unoccupied).  Between what's left of their fleet, a paratrooper or two etc, in all likelihood they could grab another spot, but we wanted to make sure if Sinai counted.

[smckenzie]

What happens to Sea zones a country controls when it surrenders?

Italy just surrendered, but had a cruiser in the eastern med when it did.

What I want to do is move transports strategically through the eastern Med now.  The axis trapped a bunch of transports in the Red sea, the It fleet trying to be useful before surrender and the damaged yamato.

I still cannot move into the indian ocean because despite yamato being destroyed by air power, there is still a japanese control marker.

What happends to the IT control marker in the eastern med when Italy surrenders?


Rules say you need to control, but is there sucha thing as a neutral sea zone?

I am playing right now and assume that the sea zone must be flipped frst before the transports can strat move....IE it mus be flipped at the start of the turn.  I have surfce ships and so I know I can stac move.

[John D.]

When the Italy surrenders, remove everything Italian - including all control markers. They are neutral zones that you can freely move through strategically.

[smckenzie]

Thanks.

That's not how I played it.

US/CW just blew their attack on Rabaul, which would have been game ending.  In consideration of this I'll allow the Allows to go a turn extra.