Unit

Can attack ?
	Yes
	No. No ammo. Can't return fire.
	No. Already attacked.

Unit Strength
		Axis	Allies
Core		10	10
	moved (greyed out)	10	10
Auxiliary		10	10
	moved (greyed out)	10	10

Unit Leaders
Axis	Allies
Missing: No leader received yet

General Concepts

Turns

Battles (scenarios) last a certain number of turns and the current turn number and maximum turns is shown in he top left corner of the screen.

In each turn you, your allies, and your opponents are given a chance to move units, attack enemy units, resupply units, and so on. When you finished all your orders you can press the End Turn button t from the right side of the screen.

Combat

The attack reticule appears when you pass the mouse pointer over an enemy within the firing range of your selected unit or for touch enabled devices automatically for all units in attack range. This reticule shows the expected losses in strength points for both sides; your projected casualties are listed below your flag, and your enemies losses are listed under the flag of that unit's country.

Keep in mind that these are estimated losses; although based on the relative attack and defense values, terrain, and experience modifiers, they may not be the same in actual battle! In any conflict there is a random factor and besides that, the estimated values don't take in account all the factors. It's up to you to decide the actual results.

If you decide to attack, click when the attack reticule is over the enemy unit. As battle ensues, unit losses are indicated on the unit strength plaques, and loses are displayed by a popping number over each unit.
A unit may move and attack, or attack then move, with the exception of artillery, air defense, or anti-tank units which cannot attack after moving (with exception of self-propelled units).

A unit getting more than 60% casualties in a combat will retreat in a random adjacent hex. If no space to retreat it will surrender (same result as being destroyed)

Core and Auxiliary Units

In campaign play, your forces for a battle may contain both core and auxiliary units. Core units are the heart of your army, units which you deploy for every battle, and go with you to each new scenario.

However, you may also receive or be put in command of auxiliaries, units which are given to you for the duration of a particular battle scenario, to aid you in your mission. Auxiliaries do not continue to the next battle with the rest of your core army.

Zone of control

A unit exerts a zone of control over the six hexes around it. Surface unit's zones of control affect only surface units and air unit's zones of control affect only air units. When you move a unit into the zone of control of an enemy unit, your unit's movement is stopped and it must either attack or end its turn, unless it is a recon unit.

If your unit was ordered to move to a point which takes it through a hex occupied by a previously hidden enemy unit, your unit is surprised by the enemy unit, and your unit's turn ends after combat is resolved.

Prestige

Prestige is the game currency, allowing purchasing of new unis, upgrading units, unit resupply and reinforcement. Prestige can be gained by: capturing objectives, wining scenarios, and depending on difficulty and scenario, it can be awarded each turn by an amount set in the scenario.

Victory Conditions

Battles are won by taking or holding some or all of the Victory Objective hexes, which are represented by hexes with gold-bordered flags on the Battlefield and Strategic Map. Capturing towns, supply points, ports, and airfields that are not Victory Objectives gains you prestige points, but does not affect the victory conditions, so you should always focus on capturing the objectives you have been ordered to take. Destroying all enemy units will also trigger a victory.

Depending on how fast you capture all objectives victories can be brilliant, normal or tactical and each give a certain amount of prestige points. Brillian victories give the most prestige points and you are also rewarded with a prototype unit for your core army in the next scenario.

If you don't meet your objectives in the maximum number of turns the battle is lost and depending on campaign path flow it can also result in ending the campaign. Some scenarios can only be "won" by playing the game until last turn, usually this is noted in the briefing at the start of the scenario.

Weather

Unit Actions

Mounts the unit into its attached ground transport (if any). This, depending on terrain,will increase the movement range of the unit. Units are much more vulnerable when transported except infantry units which will jump out of the transport when attacked.

Mounts the unit into an Air or Sea/Ocean transport. This option will only be available if unit is standing on a port or airfield and the tooltip with Available Transports shows a number bigger than 0. The unit must not have moved in the current turn to be able to Embark. Only certain classes of units can embark in a plane: infantry (leg), light anti-tank, and light artillery (wheeled).

Resupplies unit with ammo and fuel if unit didn't move in the current turn. The amount resuplied depends on how many enemy units are adjacent, terrain type and weather. Maximum supplies are provided if unit is in a city without enemy units around. Resupplying units costs prestige.

Reinforces the unit strength and also resupplies the unit if it didn't move in the current turn. Same rules as Resupply apply, reinforcing a unit is more costly, in terms of prestige than resupply.

Reinforce the unit over the 10 maximum strength if it didn't move in the current turn. This is only possible when unit has more then 100 experience. Every 100 experience unit can be overstrength with 1 more. Maximum is capped at +10 for a total of 20 strength

Undo the last move, only possible when unit didn't discover hidden units or didn't attack another unit.

Unit Classes

Unit Stats

The cost of a unit in terms of prestige. Prestige points represent the influence you have earned with the high command by winning battles as quickly and decisively as possible, and taking and holding victory objectives and cities. You can exchange prestige points for new units, replacements, and new equipment for existing units.

A unit starts with 10 strength points. A unit current strength is given on the strength tag, below the unit icon on the Battlefield. Casualties taken in battle are represented by a loss of strength points, and a unit reduced to zero strength points is destroyed. Each strength point makes an individual attack on the enemy using the unit attack and defense values. The number of strength points used for attack is also halved by rain or snow for ground troops and by overcast weather for air units (air units may not attack in rain or snow). The units are considered to be regiments/brigades, with the exception of reconnaissance units (and perhaps some anti-aircraft units), which would remain battalions.

If unit uses fuel for movement it shows how many moves it can do before getting stuck without fuel and in need of resupply. With a clear terrain or road every movement consumes 1 point of fuel. Other terrain and weather types will increase fuel consumption.

How many attacks a unit can perform. Each attack uses 1 ammo. A unit without ammo will get increased casualties when attacked. Artillery without ammo cannot perform supporting fire.

The distance in hexes that the unit can attack an enemy unit. Usually artillery units have a range bigger than 1 but powerfull tank, anti-tank, air defence and even infantry can have a range of 2.

The range in hexes that a unit can move in 1 turn. Each unit has a movement point allowance per turn that is spent as it moves. The movement point cost of each hex depends on the terrain in the hex, weather conditions, and the unit movement type.

Each time a unit takes part in combat it gains experience, and the more successful it is in combat, the more experience points it gains. The maximum experience level a unit can achieve is 6 (600 experience total).

When two units fight, their relative experience levels affect combat, and help determine relative casualties. Experience also determines overstrength size, reduces the risk of rugged defense, and modifies initiative. Units with two or three experience levels should be considered veteran troops and those with four or five levels elite troops. Veteran units sustain fewer casualties and inflict more casualties than a less experienced unit.

Units gain experience by fighting and gain the most by destroying, or forcing into retreat, more experienced enemy units and units with better equipment. Making veteran and elite units overstrength is valuable because they are better able to withstand and inflict casualties in combat.

Units that have not moved are assumed to dig in each turn even if they attack, resupply, and so on. Each turn the unit does not move, it entrenches further. If a unit moves out of the hex, it loses all its entrenchment levels.

All terrain types have a base entrenchment level from zero to three, which ground units in that hex with lower entrenchment levels automatically obtain at the end of their turn. This number is not added to the unit entrenchment level; it replaces it. Base entrenchment levels are: 3 for cities, 2 for forests, bocage (intertwined hedgerows), and mountains, one for rough terrain and hills, and zero for everything else. Units can entrench up to a maximum of five levels above the base entrenchment level for the terrain.

Entrenchment levels are reduced by attacks or bombardment of entrenched ground units. Each attack, whether it is successful or not, reduces the unit entrenchment level by one level. Repeated attacks in a single turn can even reduce the entrenchment level below the base level for the terrain, thus facilitating further attacks during the same turn. A proven way to attack a strongly entrenched unit is with a combination of aerial and artillery preparatory bombardment, followed by ground attacks by one or more units.

Engineer units, with the exception of bridge engineers, ignore entrenchment, making them valuable units during this type of assault.

Initiative is an estimate of a unit ability to react quickly in combat. Initiative is determined by the equipment used in battle, the terrain upon which the battle takes place, and the experience of the units. It is also adjusted by a random factor, to help simulate the uncertainty of battle. The higher the unit initiative, the better, since the unit with the higher initiative takes reduced damage. If a tactical surprise or rugged defense occurs, the attacker initiative is zero.

The distance, in hexes, at which a unit becomes aware of the general location of enemy units. Note that there are no terrain restrictions on spotting range; for example, a mountain hex does not block spotting beyond it, however, spotting range may be reduced by bad weather. Once a hex is spotted during a player turn, it remains sighted for the entire turn. Any time a friendly unit moves and does not cancel its move, it surveys all hexes within its spotting range. Enemy units within your unit spotting range are automatically revealed.

A value gauging the unit attack capabilities against hard targets, such as tanks, certain recons and fortifications. A value of zero indicates that the unit cannot attack hard targets.

A value gauging the unit attack capabilities against soft targets, such as infantry, artillery, air defence.

A value gauging the unit attack capabilities against air targets, such as tactical bombers and fighters. A value of zero indicates that the unit cannot attack air targets.

A value gauging the unit attack capabilities against naval targets, such as destroyers and battleships. A value of zero indicates that the unit cannot attack naval targets.

A value gauging the unit ability to withstand attacks by land and naval units.

A value gauging the unit ability to withstand attacks by air units. Air units use this defense value against all attacks

A value gauging a non-infantry ground unit ability to attack infantry in city or forest hexes, or defend itself in city or forest hexes against infantry. When any non-infantry ground unit attacks infantry which puts up a rugged defense, the attacking unit uses its close defense value. When combating or defending against infantry in city or forest hexes, non-infantry ground units suffer the handicap of using their close defense values. Infantry do not retain this advantage in clear terrain. Since close defense values are usually less than ground defense values, this makes infantry more dangerous in difficult terrain.

A value gauging the unit ability to withstand ranged attacks by ground units. This value is not used to defend against artillery fire but for other type of units that fire at range (certain tanks, anti-tanks and so on).

The different methods of movement units may use are: leg, towed, wheeled, half-tracked , tracked, all-terrain, naval, and air. Units with leg or towed movement have no fuel rating, and can acquire non-organic transport for greater mobility. Terrain and weather affects the cost of movement depending on movement type. For example tracked, half-tracked and wheeled won't be able to enter mountainous or swamp terrain. In rough type terrain tracked and half-tracked can pass through but wheeled vehicles can't.

The target classification of the unit, either soft, hard, air or naval, which determines which attack values an opponent uses against the unit.

Terrain

Careful analysis of terrain is vital to a well conceived and executed battle strategy. Terrain affectsmovement, since some types of ground are more difficult to negotiate than others. Also, some types of terrain provide greater base entrenchment, making those areas more defensible, and more difficult to clear of enemy defenders.

In difficult terrain, such as cities and mountains, defending and attacking infantry shoot against the close defense stat of the enemy unit, usually placing the non-infantry unit at a severe disadvantage. The exception to this being that infantry may attack another unit that succeeds in putting up a rugged defense, in which case the attacker shoots at the defenders ground defense value. Infantry and artillery can be highly effective when defending from difficult terrain, particularly against larger vehicles, such as tanks, which have difficulty bringing their full power to bear. Conversely, tank and self-propelled anti-tank units, which have difficulty in cities and forests, can be dominant in clear terrain, where defending infantry and artillery need to be entrenched to survive an armoured attack.

Rivers are a terrain type that deserves special mention. Entering a river hex ends a ground unit's movement, except when the river is frozen. It may exit the river hex normally the following turn. Dismounted bridging engineers may serve as bridges, eliminating this penalty for the hexes engineers occupy. The bridging engineers can also bridge rivers where there is no ford. When a bridging engineer unit moves into a river hex, a pontoon bridge appears. Friendly units may then move over the bridge icon. Note: Some rivers are too wide to cross with bridging engineers.

The table below shows, for each type of terrain, how fast your unit entrenches, combat initiative and movement cost. For movement costs ● means unit can enter but will consume all movements points and ■ means an unit cannot enter/pass that terrain at all.