Flak question

[jnpoint]

Are Flak units units you can move around?

[Jim D Burns]

Flak support units are moved via the city screen (click on the city name top right of the game screen). From what I have seen so far it is prohibitively expensive to move them though. I tried saving a few of the heavy flak units from the cities in Sicily and it was costing something like 15 point to send one away. Lighter flak was cheaper, but still expensive.

Given the costs to redeploy flak, I’d say you will not be making any major redeployment of your flak defenses in the game. There simply aren’t enough points being generated in game to allow it. You might move one battalion a turn but even that is damn expensive. And it certainly won’t make any significant change to the at start flak set up across Germany and France.

I did not track where the flak units I clicked on went. I assume it goes to the highest command HQ units support units list and you then will have to pay more political points to deploy it back to map later, but I haven’t confirmed this assumption yet.

Jim

[Great_Ajax]

The reason why it is so expensive is because the flak units stationed at cities have little to no organic transport. You are paying a resource price to move them.

Trey

ORIGINAL: Jim D Burns

Flak support units are moved via the city screen (click on the city name top right of the game screen). From what I have seen so far it is prohibitively expensive to move them though. I tried saving a few of the heavy flak units from the cities in Sicily and it was costing something like 15 point to send one away. Lighter flak was cheaper, but still expensive.

Given the costs to redeploy flak, I’d say you will not be making any major redeployment of your flak defenses in the game. There simply aren’t enough points being generated in game to allow it. You might move one battalion a turn but even that is damn expensive. And it certainly won’t make any significant change to the at start flak set up across Germany and France.

I did not track where the flak units I clicked on went. I assume it goes to the highest command HQ units support units list and you then will have to pay more political points to deploy it back to map later, but I haven’t confirmed this assumption yet.

Jim

[cmunson]

Sicily is a special case since it is an island. You can move it within the island for 1 pt. That is true everywhere, once a city has a flak unit you can move to another city for only 1pt but you can't move across ocean. If you want to send it back to OKW or other HQ it costs 15pt.

Don't forget to disband any flak units you can't move (there is one on Sardinia also).

Trey is right, the designers wanted flak to be semi-permanent because it has no organic transport. Even 1pt to move from city to city is a lot when you only get 5pts a turn.

[carlkay58]

Part of the flak AP cost also represents the political cost of telling a town that you are no longer going to defend them - someone else is more important.