Each unit must be able to trace a line to a primary supply source, which is any friendly-controlled city in its home country or a cooperating Major Power, or to a secondary supply source which is itself in supply. Supply is an important "World in Flames" concept. Weather greatly influences turn length and what can be accomplished in terms of offensives. The weather influences combat modifiers, naval ability to spot enemy fleets, supply range, aircraft mission eligibility, land unit movement allowance and how fast the end of turn impulse marker advances after each impulse. The map is divided into 6 different weather zones and each zone is assigned its own weather based on the Weather Chart result. Weather is determined at the start of the initiative winner's impulse using the Weather Chart, which is a function of the time of year and a die roll. The process is repeated until the end of turn die-roll indicates the end of the turn. A die is rolled to see if this is the end of the turn if not, the other side takes their impulse. After the impulse is ended, the impulse marker is advanced on a track with a number determining how likely the entire turn is to end. After initiative is determined, the winner chooses an impulse type (see below) and moves his units, and resolves different types of combat according to rules. The initiative modifier shifts if one side asks for a reroll or if one side has the first and the last move in one turn. The roll is modified for one of the sides by a +1 or +2 on a ten-sided die, reflecting the side's ability to execute quick and well-coordinated offensives with enough resources. The side with the higher initiative roll decides what side will have the first of several moves in a turn. The build points can be spent to purchase units for land, sea and air warfare. As the war proceeds, all production-multipliers go up. This multiplier represents how well geared the nation's industry is towards war-time production. For each pair of points successfully combined (by railing or shipping a resource-point to a factory), the nation gains a number of build points equal to its production multiplier. Production points from on-map factory complexes are combined with resource points from on-map natural resources. The ability of a Major Power to produce military units is abstracted by three factors. Days of Decision starts gameplay in 1936 and allows for a far greater range of actions in the political spectrum. However, these required political actions can be quite different if you play with Days of Decision, which can be used as an expansion of this game. Aggressive Allied play - like declaration of war on neutral minor countries - will slow US entry. Briefly, aggressive and successful play from the Axis side will hasten the entry of the US into the war. Future declarations of war between the Major Powers influences US Entry and US Tension, which are abstractions of when United States of America can declare war. At this time, Japan is at war with China. France and the British Commonwealth must subsequently declare war on Germany on their next move. Major Power neutrality and entry into the war Īt the beginning of the game, Germany must declare war on Poland. If there is more than one player on the Allied side, the Chinese communists are controlled by the USSR player.
Each major power can be played by one player in practice two or more major powers on the same side are usually played by each player. China is divided into Chinese Nationalists and Chinese Communists. The game is played with the Commonwealth (consisting of the United Kingdom, Canada, India, Australia, South Africa and numerous territories and colonies), France, China, USSR and the United States of America forming the Allies and Germany, Italy and Japan forming the Axis. Attacks on convoys are handled by the same rules that handle ship-to-ship and air-to-ship warfare. For instance, strategic bombing of factories and resources are handled by the same rules that handles tactical bombing, paradrops and naval bombing. The rules are designed to be able to cope with different types of activity without invoking new concepts for each situation. Thus, it is possible that a battle may consist of a number of engagements involving air, land and naval units, even if it is taking place in the land combat phase of an impulse. The game is designed in such a way that these different combat types may influence each other. There are three main combat types land combat, air combat and naval combat. World in Flames game mechanics takes into account many aspects of the World War II conflict. 3 Major Power neutrality and entry into the war.
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