From: sos@katie.vnet.net (Steffan O'Sullivan) Subject: Columbia's Victory Q&A I finally got to play Victory this last weekend - good game, though I got my butt kicked royally. I like it, though am a little dubious about the power of Air (though I suppose that's historical - the best air force will help carry the day). I'm even more dubious about the power of battleships in port - they're just *too* powerful, and seem ahistorically so. You can defend a port better with battleships than anything else (though you need *some* ground and air troops) and you can use the supply to rebuild the battleships each turn ... hmm. Perhaps that last part is the key - it's too easy to rebuild battleships. At any rate, I had three questions about the game, so e-mailed the game's co-designer, Grant Dalgleish. Here are his answers. Questions on Columbia's _Victory_, official answers by Grant Dalgleish of Columbia Games: Q) Air Stacking: do Air units in an airbase count as ground units for stacking, or is the +2 air stacking true whether they are flying or not? That is, at the *end* of my turn, can I have four army units and two air units in a city in a clear hex, or just two army units plus two on-the-ground air units in such a hex? A) +2 is on ground or in air. A city can have 4 ground units and two planes (on ground or in air). --------- Q) Building new units: are you limited to the unit mix you *started* the scenario with, or simply to the entire unit mix? That is, if I'm playing the Quick Start scenario, can I build new units from the 30 units I chose not to start with, or only from the 20 I started with? A) The entire mix (unless players want to limit themselves). --------- Q) Does an airborne unit flying to a paradrop have to "take off" from an airbase? Can it move by ground in the same turn it airdrops, before taking off? A) It has to fly from an airbase. No ground move first or after. -- -Steffan O'Sullivan | "Weary not thyself to be rich ... For sos@vnet.net | riches certainly make themselves wings Chapel Hill, NC, USA | like an eagle that flieth toward heaven." http://www.io.com/~sos | -Proverbs 23:4-5