WiFSD Consolidated Tables

This is an attempt to put all of the tables we suggest for WiFSD onto one page. Since HTML is not exactly a great layout tool, this will necessarily not be a pretty page, but at least it puts most of the tricky details in once place.

Naval Rules

• Convoy escort: a dedicated mission, place escorts under convoy points; CPs may never activate for combat; CPs and other units in 0 box may be selected separately for inclusion in a round of naval combat; units may escort face up if able to reach 3 box; face down if 2 box. Escorts always included in battle with convoys and (for surprise point purposes only) are in 3 box if face up, 2 box if face down, 0 box if no escorts. Escorts can't do anything except escort.
• Naval search mods: for every 3 full units you flip to search, your die roll to find is -1 (but surprise points are unaffected) to a maximum of -3. Face-down enemy ships in the 0 box count towards your total of flipped units; every enemy convoy unit (2 CPs, or 1 spare CP) also contributes except during Storm or Blizzard.
• Shore bombardment: you may add SB points equal to the total combat factors of land units either invading or attacking along the (same) coast. Units which provide SB flip face down and drop to the 0 box after doing so.
• Defensive shore bombardment: as the last activity in your impulse, you may state that some face up SCS are on standy to provide defensive SB during the enemy impulse; all such units drop to the 0 box at the end of the enemy impulse whether used or not.
• Naval ground strikes: face up SCS may do a naval ground strike with their usual SB factors, subject to air mission limits; not allowed during air impulse, may use full air limits during super combined. All such units flip face down and drop to the 0 box after striking.
• TRS invasions (assumes use of AMPH rules): non-MAR corps may still invade off a TRS but each corps adds +2 to enemy notional defense.
• Invasions: any ship which had a unit invade off it flips face down and drops to the 0 box immediately afterwards

• Mountain units: double MTN combat factors when attacking a mountain/desert moutain hex.
• Marine units: MAR combat factors are not halved attacking across a river/canal.
• Supply and land attacks: Face-up out of supply land units can attack at half-strength. Defending units that are out of supply defend with half of their combat factors; and each defending OOS unit provides the attacker with an additional +1 mod.
• Land combat mods (assumes use of split die rolls, Opt. 43):
  • Defender die roll is -1 when defending in a forest hex
  • Defender die roll is -1 per printed factory stack in the hex they occupy to their die roll (does not apply to stacks will have been built in or moved to the defending hex)
  • Both die rolls are +1 for each defending shattered unit
  • Attacker die roll is -1 if units from more than one major power contribute factors to the attack
  • If both attacker and defender die roll modifiers are +2 or more, then for each +2 on both dice that the attacker forgoes, he may gain an odds column (including for overruns); you may not reduce modifiers below 0 (note: applies to overruns as well).
• Blitz mods: in most terrain, if attacker has an many ARM points as defender then the attackers will have choice of blitz or assault table; some terrain will reduce combat odds if blitz is chosen. In clear or desert non-city hex in Fine or Snow weather, blitz bonus may apply.
  

  Attacking Units	ARM points
  HQ-A, ARM	4
  MECH	3
  MOT, CAV	1
  TB, AT, AA (red-circled)	half printed combat factors
  Defending Units	ARM points
  HQ-A, ARM	4
  MECH	3
  MOT, HQI, INF, GAR	2
  PARA, MAR, MIL, TER, CAV, MTN	1
  TB, AT, AA	printed combat factors
  notional unit	1 per combat factor

  
  
  • Divisions have half the above value for their respective corps
  • treat an ENG division as an INF division
  • 'TB' stands for a tank-buster bomber.
  • Units whose combat factors are being halved or doubled for any reason (attacking across river, invading, chit play, etc.) also halve or double their ARM points respectively.
  
  If a Blitzkrieg attack is occuring in a clear or desert hex (which does not contain a city) experiencing Fine or Snow weather, then their may be an armor bonus. Subtract defender's armor points from attacker's. If number is greater than zero, both attacker and defender apply one-fourth of this number as a positive die roll modifier to their combat die rolls (WiFSD assumes use of the split d10, option 43). If the number is negative, both attacker and defender apply one-fourth this number as a negative die roll modifier to their combat die rolls.
  
  Terrain effects (note: the defender can always choose the Combat type (blitz or assault) table if the attacker cannot, with no change in the combat odds.
  
  

  Terrain	Odds modifier
  Clear, Desert	none; possible ARM bonus for either side in Fine or Snow if not a city
  Forest	-1 odds level
  Jungle, Mountain, Swamp	-2 odds levels
  City with two or more printed factory stacks	defender chooses table
  Other City	-2 odds levels
  Fortress, Fortified hex	defender chooses table if any attacking units are attacking across a fortified hexside

  
  
  Related points:
  
  • Tank busters: when flying ground support, tank busters add their tactical factors into combat like any other bomber. However, tank busters also affect the choice of combat tables per the blitz modifiers above.
  • Anti-tank/Anti-air units: AT/AA units add their printed combat factors to the combat factors of other units involved in the combat, as usual. ATs/AAs affect whether a blitz can be called, and any blitz modifier, per the blitz modifiers above.
• Land combat casualties:
  
  • If the attacker chooses the combat table and chooses Blitzkrieg, then the first unit destroyed must be one of the units which contributed to his ARM value. In an attack involving an invasion, the first attacking unit destroyed must be a MAR if one was used, or any other invading unit if not. In an attack involving a paradrop, the first unit lost must be a PARA. If an ENG divsion uses any of its abilities in an attack, then the first unit lost must be the ENG. If more than one of these conditions apply, the defender can choose which unit type takes the first casualty. Attacker selects the specific unit of that type and all units thereafter. (Note: a division satisfies the required loss but only 0.5 of the "1" result.)
  • divisons only satisfy half of a "1" loss in combat. Any in supply white print land unit destroyed (but not simultaneously shattered) when it could retreat in combat becomes a kampfgruppe (KG). Any corps which is only assigned half a loss and is destroyed (but not simultaneously shattered) when it could retreat in land combat becomes a KG. HQs and MIL cannot become KG. Place all KGs into the repair pool. During production, return all KGs to the force pool; a KG can be used to reduce the build cost of the same type unit (or INF or MIL instead) by half for both cost and time.
• HQ reorgs: An HQ which attacks and flips face down may still use its reorg capapbilty at -1 less than printed value; units need only trace a basic overland supply path to an HQ to get reorganized, not be in its ZOC.
• Oil rule:
  
  • Acquiring fuel: each oil resource used for production also produces fuel points = 4 * PM level of that MP; alternately an oil not used for production can produce 10 fuel points. Neutral major powers acquire fuel by purchasing it on the open market, 1 build point purchases 10 fuel points.
  • Storing fuel: use a marker on the pilot for less than 10 fuel points; use markers on map for each ten points; may store only at factories, 10 fuel points per stack.
  • Expending fuel:
    • each HQ-A, ARM or MECH corps/army unit which attacks expends 1 fuel point; they may attack at half cfs if fuel not available
    • reorganizing (both during turn and at the end of the turn) oil-dependent units cost per table:
      

      Unit type	Fuel needed
      HQ-A, HQ-I, ARM, MECH, MOT corps/armies or divisions; ENG or any other motorized division	1
      Air units (including SiF's carrier planes)	2 if playing Classic; 1 if playing PiF
      Naval units (except convoy points)	2 if playing Classic; 1 if playing SiF

    • when a naval unit (except convoy points) or air unit remains at sea at the end of the turn, fuel cost per the above.
    • each pilot built costs 1 fuel point
    • each reinforcement placed on the map costs fuel per the above
    • Units of minor countries controlled by a major power count towards that major power's fuel consumption.
  • When fuel is saved: an in supply oil unit cann be flipped face down during any reinforcement phase and increases their fuel total by the above amount
  • Fuel storage/capture: oil barrel markers placed on map stay there until used, captured or destroyed; oil barrel markers are captured if a land unit occupies a factory hex containing oil barrel markers during the movement phase, or during advance after combat when an * was achieved.

Hope this helps!