ORIGINAL: Shannon V. OKeets
2 - I am going to move the USSR occupies Eastern Poland and Baltic States out of the DOW Phase and instead make it pop up whenever the USSR moves a unit into those places (to make it conform to RAW).
Good decision.
3 - I am going to leave the CW adds Polish units to its force pool (MECH/MOT and interned Polish units) as part of the DOW Phase. I could put it in the Production Phase, but since it is already in the DOW Phase, I see no overwhelming need to relocate it.
4 - I am confused as to what the Polish interned units are. The naval units are out, since there's no ports in Eastern Poland. Can land units be interned? The rules do not mention it directly.
They can, but they are interned, so are destroyed.
The rules does mention it.
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19.1 Neutral minor countries
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Option 58: (Internment) A minor country unit can move or rebase into a neutral minor country. A unit that does that is destroyed (PiF option 28: but any pilot survives).
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So a Polish land / air or naval unit can enter a neutral port. It is then destroyed, and the pilot survives, so the controlling major power pilot count is immediately increased by 1.
If so, it appears that any Polish land unit in Eastern Poland when the USSR enters it, goes into the Internment Pool and is made available to the CW for inclusion in the CW Force Pool once Germany and the USSR are at war.
This is right :
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19.5.1 Eastern Poland
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Any Allied (except Soviet) units there are destroyed. They are removed from the game (internment) until Germany and the USSR are at war, at which point they may be added to the Commonwealth force pool if the Commonwealth player so desires.
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Interning the air units is unclear to me as well. I could: (1) treat them the same way I just described for the land units, or (2) treat them as described for other interned air units, with the CW getting the pilot immediately and the air unit itself being destroyed, or (3) give the CW the pilot immediately and intern the air unit for addition to the CW force pool later [though why the CW would ever want a Polish air unit I don't know].
IMO, it is 14.6.4 that govern this area of the game :
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14.6.4 Pilot deaths
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Option 58: (Internment) A minor country aircraft unit can rebase into a neutral minor country. An aircraft unit that does that is destroyed. (PiF option 28: but the pilot survives).
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19.1 says that interned units are destroyed, and pilots survive (immediately added to the controlled's major power pilot track).
14.6.4 basicaly says the same thing.
19.5.1 is differing, but it is also a special case of Russian Internement.
So for me the answer is (2) without ambiguity.
Only if a Polish Air unit was in the Eastern Poland Area when the Russians enter it (and grab it) would 19.5.1 matter for the Polish Air Unit. I would say that in this case, the pilot is only added to the controlling major power pilot track when Russia & Germany are at war. The rationale is simply that the Russians only liberated the Polish when they ere at war with the Germans, and kept them in gulags before that.