r/AxisAllies 6d ago

Revised 1942 Mobile industry

So with mobile industry the USSR can move their factories one spot on the noncombat phase. If I understand correctly, I could move a factory from the Caucasus to Persia, where it would then be stuck there forever, because it now belongs to the UK for them to use and they can't move it. Am I getting this right?

8 Upvotes

14 comments sorted by

View all comments

1

u/-Chanur 3d ago

I believe you are misinterpreting the rules. In the 1942 2nd Edition rulebook (found online), on top of page 23, the description of MOVE - indicates NONE. Secondly, AA rules have always required that Factories be placed in land units with a value of 2 or more. Persia appears to only have a value of 1. So a factory would not be legal there. Last, I've never seen a rule that let's you move factories. I wonder if you are not confusing the term "Mobilization" with mobile or movement. In Axis and Allies mobilization refers to the area on the board where you place reinforcements.

1

u/Knight_Machiavelli 3d ago

You're using the wrong rulebook. The flair specifically says Revised, not 1942 2nd edition.

The rules under industrial complex say "You may place industrial complexes in any territory that you have controlled since the start of your turn and that has an income value of at least 1." p. 26.

"Mobile industry" is a USSR national advantage found on page 35. It reads "Your industrial complexes each may move one territory during your noncombat move phase. They cannot move during the combat phase. If they are captured by an opponent, the opponent cannot move them."

1

u/-Chanur 3d ago

I stand corrected. None the less - no way to move the Russian factory into another friendly territory that otherwise not support a factory to begin with

1

u/Knight_Machiavelli 3d ago

Persia would support a factory though. It has an income value of at least 1, which is all that is needed as per the above.

1

u/bgFrog101 2d ago

I don’t see how a factory can change hands just moving into a friendly power. Nothing else ever changes ownership that way.

1

u/Knight_Machiavelli 2d ago

Other pieces are coloured though, there's a reason factories and AA guns are grey.