Blitzkrieg!: World War Two in 20 Minutes FAQ
82 questions players ask · Updated Nov 12, 2026 · Full rulebook
The Game Board
- Does the battle marker move between one campaign closing and the next campaign opening in the same theatre?
- In a two-player game, can a unit go into any theatre, or does a rule limit which theatre I place in?
- After a campaign closes, can later units go into the next open campaign of the same theatre?
- If a placement would move the battle marker past the last space of a track, does the theatre still close?
- Can a Strategic Advantage split its movement between two other theatres, and which track gets the unit's own value?
- Is a +1 advance a Tactical or a Strategic Advantage?
- Does a Blitz airforce, or an army or navy placed on a bombing space, still trigger that space's effect?
Units and special weapons
- Can special weapon tokens go on land, sea, or any battle space?
- Where can the Naval Bombing and Aerial Bombing special weapon tokens be placed?
- Does the nuclear bomb still carry out the effect of the battle space it lands on?
- How far does the nuclear bomb move the battle marker, and what does its -2 do to other theatres?
- Can the nuclear bomb's -2 retreat close another theatre, or push a battle marker onto its last space?
- In the Nippon Expansion, if the nuclear bomb closes its own theatre, does its -2 affect the campaign opened next?
- Can a Spy copy a special weapon such as the nuclear bomb?
- Where can the Spy be placed?
- Does the Spy copy the battle space ability of where the opponent placed the unit?
- If the opponent plays a Blitz token and then a unit, what does a Spy copy?
- Can you look at a developed special weapon token before placing it in your bag?
- How does a Task Force token work when it is placed?
- Is an Elite Forces token an army or a navy?
- Do special weapon tokens count toward a General's or Admiral's battle track advance?
- How far does a General or Admiral move the battle marker?
- Does a General's strength change when units are placed after it?
- Does a Blitz airforce count as an airforce when a General or Admiral advances?
- Are the blank tokens part of the bag?
Playing the Game
- When a placement uses a battle space effect and a token ability, such as a Blitz or a nuclear bomb, in what order do they resolve?
- After a Blitz token, where can the second unit go: another theatre, or a different campaign?
- When a Blitz unit is placed, is its battle space resolved before the follow-up unit goes down, and are closures scored first?
- Can you play several Blitz tokens in a row in the same turn?
- If a Blitz unit lands on the last battle space of a theatre, must I place the follow-up unit?
- When bombing, can the bomber look at the opponent's token before it goes back into the bag?
- How is the bombed unit chosen from the opponent's reserve, and can a special weapon be picked?
- Can you look at a research token before putting it into your bag?
- Can my opponent see how many unit tokens I have in reserve?
Closing campaigns and theatres
- When a theatre closes, is the battle track bonus scored once, or once for each open campaign?
- If one move closes a campaign and also closes the theatre, does that campaign get the track bonus too?
- When a theatre closes because the battle marker reaches the end of the track, who scores the unclosed campaigns?
- Does a theatre close when its last open campaign is filled, even if the battle marker never reaches the end of the track?
- When a theatre closes, do its empty battle spaces still give their effects, and must they be filled?
- Can a unit or a Scientist be placed on an empty battle space of a closed theatre?
- When a campaign closes with the battle marker on the neutral centre space, who scores the campaign points?
- Is a battle track VP icon scored when the marker passes it, or only when a campaign closes?
- When closing a campaign, do you add both the +1 and the +2 track bonuses, or only the highest icon reached?
- Can the battle track bonus be scored again when another campaign closes, or after the marker moves back and forth?
- When the battle track is held by the other side, who scores the campaign points?
- When a placement closes a campaign and also moves the battle marker, is the marker moved before the winner is decided?
- When a placement moves the battle marker to the end of the track, is the icon on the space still carried out?
- When a campaign closes, can an unoccupied battle space's effect be used in another theatre?
Winning the War
- If the Axis reaches 25 VP on its own turn, does the Allied player get a final turn?
- If an Allied action pushes the Axis to 25 VP, does the game end at once or do the Allies get another turn?
- At game end, who wins if the Axis and Allies have the same VP total?
- Does the war victory point track stop at 30, or can a player score past 30?
- What happens if a player has no legal unit token to place at the start of their turn? Can they pass?
- If bombing leaves a player with no units in reserve, when does that player lose?
Solo mode
- Does the solo bot close a campaign that I am going to win?
- How does the solo bot choose a theatre where it can close and win a campaign?
- Does the solo bot check its close-and-win option before the other unit-selection rules?
- In the solo bot's unit selection, is picking from legally placeable units a real priority?
- For the solo bot, does a Blitz token plus its follow-up unit count as one placement when checking whether it can close and win?
- In the solo bot's Greatest Change, is the player's lead compared with the AI's lead, or is the player-lead option used only when the AI leads nowhere?
- In the solo bot's Greatest Change, what does more extreme mean, and how are ties broken?
- What do the Top > Bottom and Left > Right tie rules in the solo setup mean?
- If the same theatre is rolled twice for the solo bot's start, does it advance twice?
- Is a General or Admiral a valid placement for the solo bot in a theatre with no army or navy units?
- Will the solo bot avoid a placement that would instantly lose the game for me, if another legal space exists?
- Do the solo bot's Economic Warfare and R&D stratagems consider only the open campaign?
- When the solo bot chooses a theatre for For the Glory, does it count VP on individual spaces?
- Does the solo bot's theatre choice take a Tactical Advantage effect into account?
- In solo mode, does the bot place in a one-box campaign only when it is winning that campaign?
- In solo mode, where does the bot place a special weapon it draws on an Industrial Research space?
- Where does a special weapon token drawn by the solo bot go?
- When the solo bot is bombed, or bombs, where do discarded units go?
- When the solo bot bombs and the solo rules do not say which unit to discard, what happens?
- If the solo bot plays a Blitz unit and has no second space in that theatre, what happens?
- Can Greatest Change pick the highest-strength unit when units tie?
- For the solo Big Guns stratagem, does the bot pick the highest-value unit or the unit creating the greatest change, and does it pick the unit or the theatre first?
- Does the solo AI take a campaign it can only tie, not win?
- Can you play solo as the Axis and let the Allied AI move first?
Nippon Expansion
- In Nippon, if a Blitz placement closes a campaign or theatre, can the extra unit go into the next campaign?
- In Nippon, when a theatre closes and all connected campaigns are already closed or active, where can the battle marker move?
- What strength do Partisans have when played?
- Can the solo mode be used with the Nippon Expansion?