Paths of Glory FAQ
571 questions players ask · Updated Nov 10, 2026 · Full rulebook
Components
- Is there a movement link between Memel and Königsberg, or are the blue lines to Memel and Danzig connections?
- Can first-edition counters and cards be used to play the Deluxe edition?
- Which counters are optional in Paths of Glory, and what do they need?
- Are the Russian 1-1-4 corps in the Deluxe edition a printing error?
- What does a city name written in capital letters mean on the map?
- What terrain are Gaza, Sinai and Aqaba on the map?
- Where is war status tracked on the board?
Symbols and Terminology
Game Setup
- Why does Basra start under British control?
- Can the Introductory, Limited War or Campaign scenario be played on the Historical map instead of the standard map?
- If The Guns of August is not the opening card for the Central Powers, how is it shuffled, and can it be played later?
- Where do Russian army reinforcements go, since Russia's capital is off the map?
- Does a Central Powers or Allied unit's nationality change the attrition check?
- Where does the extra Austro-Hungarian corps start, and why Stanislaw rather than Lemberg?
- What Reserve Box numbers should the Deluxe map show for Austro-Hungarian and Russian corps?
- Is Kavala available for entry before Salonika or Greece is played?
- Do the Italian setup armies in Verona, Asiago, Maggiore and Udine start in trenches?
- Which units start in Brussels and Strasbourg, and do they have trenches?
- When are the neutral Bulgarian and Romanian corps placed on the map?
- Which side controls Persia at setup, and what changes there when Turkey enters?
- Are Mandated Offensives rolled on the first turn, and is the Guns of August choice made before that roll?
- Which corps is the BEF Corps in the setup, and can it be rebuilt?
- Where does the Central Powers' starting 10 VP come from, and which VP spaces count at setup?
- Does removing the MEF Beachhead marker leave its space playable?
Determining Victory
- In the Historical Scenario, how many VP do unplayed US reinforcements cost the Allies, and do Corps cards count?
- In the Historical Scenario, does the VP adjustment for unplayed US Army reinforcements apply if the US never enters the war?
- Before Total War, can German armies enter Trent, Villach or Trieste or operate in Italy?
- Can a German army attack Villach while Italy is not yet at Total War?
- In the Historical Scenario, can corps from any nation operate in Italy before Total War?
- In the Historical Scenario, can French army units enter Italy from Nice or Grenoble while Italy is at war?
- When do the Italy restrictions in the Historical Scenario lift for German armies and other nations' armies?
- Does the Limited War scenario end immediately when a side reaches Total War during the Action Phase?
- If the Central Powers capture and then vacate Belgrade, does control revert to the Allies?
- How do the Victory Point track and the War Status markers interact when spaces are captured?
- What happens to a VP space's control when its occupying unit is eliminated as out of supply?
- Is Sedan a victory point space?
- Can Serbia or Belgium be knocked out of the game for good by losing their capital or forces?
- Do you gain VP for moving through or into a VP space you already control?
- Does a neutral country's entry into the war, or its coming under your control, add VP?
- Are Victory Points capped at 20 or 0?
- If the Blockade card reduces CP VP in the War Status Phase, does it apply before the automatic victory check?
- For a card that can be played as both an event and OPS, which resolves first?
- Which cards give both their event and their OPS value when played as events?
- Can the Brusilov Offensive be played as an event and for OPS even though it has no yellow stripe?
- When an Allied event is played, which War Status tracks move?
Sequence of Play
- Are any special effects applied during a winter turn?
- If the Blockade costs the last Victory Point in winter, does the game end immediately or in the next turn?
- When is the discard pile reshuffled into the draw pile?
- Can a player start a turn with fewer than seven cards in hand?
- How many cards may you keep in hand at the end of a turn?
- When a hand must be refilled from a reshuffle, do you draw the rest of the draw pile first, and does the hand reach seven?
- Is there a limit of one event card per turn?
- Must you play a card as Operations each turn?
- Do replacement points you do not spend in a turn carry over?
- When two armies in one space move and entrench, in what order are the actions resolved?
- Can any player be at Limited War at the start of turn 2?
- Where do discarded combat cards go when the hand must be refilled from a reshuffle?
Mandated Offensives
- What happens when a Mandated Offensive names a neutral nation?
- If a nation's capital is captured after its Mandated Offensive was rolled, does the MO change?
- Does a nation whose capital is held by the enemy still get a Mandated Offensive?
- With Austria-Hungary's capital occupied, does the Mandated Offensive shift when only Vienna or only Budapest is enemy-controlled?
- If a nation has no units on the board, does its Mandated Offensive fail?
- Does a multinational attack satisfy a Mandated Offensive?
- Can a Belgian army attacking alone satisfy a British Mandated Offensive?
- Can you attack an empty space to satisfy an Austro-Hungarian Italy Mandated Offensive?
- Does attacking or besieging an enemy fort satisfy a Mandated Offensive?
- How should a modified Mandated Offensive roll above 6 be read?
- Does the Hindenburg-Ludendorff event remove the need to roll for a German Mandated Offensive?
- Does the Hoffmann event still affect Mandated Offensive rolls once Hindenburg-Ludendorff is in play?
- Is a missed Mandated Offensive penalized as soon as the action round passes without the attack?
- Are Mandated Offensives performed in a separate phase or during the action rounds?
- Do US units have to take part in an attack to avoid the French Mutiny penalty?
- Does the French Mutiny's extra VP for non-US French attacks help the Allies or the Central Powers?
- If the Alberich event cancels an attack that would have fulfilled a Mandated Offensive, does the offensive still count as fulfilled?
- How is an Italian Mandated Offensive fulfilled, and does moving into an empty Italian space count?
- What counts as a target for an Austro-Hungarian Italy Mandated Offensive?
Action Phase
- In what order are movement and attacks resolved within an action?
- Can a player take the one-OPS action while cards are still in hand?
- If a player runs out of cards before the final action round, can they draw new cards?
- Can a unit left in an activated space attack an adjacent space after moving out?
- Does the Influenza card stop the Central Powers from spending the replacement bonus earned from Sedan during Total War?
- Can a player take the one-OPS action to keep an unplayable event card for the next turn?
- Can a unit move into a space activated for movement and then have that space activated for attack in the same action round?
- When are the Move and Attack markers removed?
- What can you do in an action round if you have no Strategy Cards left?
- Is it six action rounds per side, with six for each alliance?
- If a player uses some cards as combat cards during the action rounds, how many cards are held at the end of the turn?
- Can the same space be activated again in a later action round of the same action phase?
Strategy Cards
- How many Near East spaces can the Allies activate for combat in one action round?
- How many OPS does it cost to activate the MEF through the MEF Beachhead?
- Which Allied units may trace supply through the MEF Beachhead?
- Does the per-corps OPS cost through the MEF Beachhead still apply after the MEF army is eliminated?
- How much does it cost to activate a space holding several nationalities?
- Must every unit in an activated space move or attack?
- Does a British unit stacked with a Belgian unit in Brussels cost two OPS to activate?
- Can a space that holds only a friendly fort be activated?
- How does the Sud Army activation discount work once the card is played?
- What does the 11th Army event do to activation costs?
- Where do the MEF army and the MEF Beachhead marker go when the MEF event is played?
- Can the MEF be placed at Salonika once Salonika is open as a supply source?
- If an Allied Near East army enters at Paris or another capital, can it still operate in the Near East or land at Salonika?
- Can the Army of the Orient be played before Salonika or Greece is opened?
- Can Serbian corps be strategically redeployed to Salonika before the Salonika event?
- Can Sinai Pipeline still be played as an event after Allenby was played as an event?
- Where do reinforcement armies and corps go when they arrive?
- Can a reinforcing army be placed in an enemy-controlled space?
- Does the friendly-control rule for reinforcement armies stop the Senussi corps appearing in Libya?
- Where are US reinforcements placed?
- Where do Russian reinforcement armies go, since Russia has no capital?
- Where may Austrian reinforcements be placed?
- Do reinforcement armies arrive at full strength?
- Can a French army be placed in Orleans when Paris is full?
- How many reinforcement cards can a player play in one turn?
- Do the optional Russian Cavalry, Czech Legion or Polish Restoration events count as reinforcements?
- Can the Allies use Italy or Romania for OPS, SR or RP while the Central Powers are at Total War and the Allies are not?
- Can the Allies play Italy or Romania for OPS, RP or SR while the Central Powers are only at Limited War?
- Once the Allies reach Total War, can Italy or Romania be discarded as an unused combat card?
- What penalty applies if Italy stays neutral after the Allies reach Total War?
- Can a player play a card for Strategic Redeployment in Action Round 2 after using one for SR in Action Round 1?
- Can a player play Replacement Points cards in two consecutive action rounds?
- Can the points on a card played for its event be used for Strategic Redeployment or Replacement Points?
- Can an event that depends on another event be played after its prerequisite card was used for OPS?
- Can an event be played only for its War Status or deck culling after its effect is no longer useful?
- How long does the French Mutiny event last?
- Do yellow-striped event cards also count as Operations cards in the standard game?
- Is Kerensky Offensive a combat card or an event?
- Is a reinforcement card such as Allenby also an event card?
- Can the Libyan Revolt (Senussi corps) be played as an event after Constantinople has fallen?
- Can the German 10th Army enter the game without its reinforcement card?
- Does the Guns of August activation force the Central Powers to attack?
- Can you move a besieging stack out of a fort and then attack that fort in the same action round?
- After a combat, can units move through a space that a different stack just conquered in the same action round?
- Can a combat card be played when no attack is taking place in the action round?
- Can you play a second card for its combat value in an attack activated by playing another card for OPS?
- Does a nationality-specific combat card apply when that nationality shares a stack with other nations?
- Does the Wireless Intercepts combat card need a German army?
- How many times can a combat card be used in an action round, and can a retained card be used again?
- After a won combat, where do played combat cards go, and do they stay out?
- What happens to combat cards played in a tied combat?
- Can a retained combat card be discarded when its owner loses a later combat in which it was not used?
- Must you play a combat card you kept from an earlier won combat?
- Is a starred combat card removed from the game after a won battle?
- Are Von Below and Von Hutier permanently removed from the game after one combat?
- Can Von Francois or Von Hutier be played without a Russian unit in the combat, including against an unoccupied Russian fort?
- Can combat cards be played in an attack on an unoccupied fort?
- When is They Shall Not Pass discarded?
- Do combat cards without an asterisk come back into the deck after being discarded?
- When is the discard pile reshuffled into the draw pile?
- Are discarded cards placed face up, and can players look through discard piles?
- Can the Entrench event be played on turn 1?
- How do the Entrench event cards work for the Allies and Central Powers?
- Can Severe Weather cards be played in September 1914?
Stacking
Movement
- Can every army in an activated space entrench, and how many entrench rolls are made?
- When in an action round can an army attempt to entrench?
- What does playing the Entrench card as an event do?
- Can trenches be dug before the Entrench event is played?
- Does the -1 entrenching modifier stay with the army or the space, and when is it lost?
- Can an army dig a trench in a fort space, including a fort it is besieging?
- Does a trench help the defense of an empty fort?
- Do trenches in an intact fort space suffer attrition?
- What happens to a trench when an enemy unit moves into its space?
- Can a trench be dug in a mountain, swamp, desert or Near East space?
- Is there a -1 penalty for a failed entrench roll in the Historical Scenario?
- Can each unit in an activated space move to a different destination?
- Does activating a space cost more if more of its units move?
- Can a unit move into a space marked for attack and then attack from there?
- Can a unit pass through a space that is marked for attack?
- Can a unit that moved in one action round be activated again in a later round?
- Can a unit carry unused movement points into a later action round, or spend more than its Movement Factor by activating across several actions?
- Can a unit leave a space and enter it again, or end its movement on its starting space, in one movement?
- Do mountains, swamps, deserts or forests stop a unit's normal movement?
- Is there a limit on how far a unit can move through enemy-held territory?
- Does a unit gain control of every space it moves through, or only the space where it stops?
- Can a unit enter an enemy fort, leave enough units to besiege it, and keep moving the rest?
- Can a unit move into a stack that goes over the stacking limit during movement?
- Can units enter a neutral nation, or attack one, before its entry card or event is played?
- Can units enter a MEF space before the Beachhead marker is placed?
- Can Central Powers units end a move in Amiens, Calais or Ostend before War Status 4 or the Race to the Sea event?
- Can units enter Belgium without the Guns of August event?
- Can the Portuguese corps cross the English Channel over the British dashed connections?
- Can several units use the same dashed connection in one activation?
- Can a single British unit enter an empty enemy-held port without another British unit?
- Can an Italian army move across the Taranto-Valona connection, normally or by SR?
- Which ports can Central Powers units use for sea Strategic Redeployment?
- Are spaces converted by the Senussi (SN) corps immune to attrition?
- How many Russian corps can cross between the Caucasus and the Near East each turn?
- After the Fall of the Tsar, can Russian units still move or attack between the Caucasus and the Near East?
- Can a Russian corps move from Odessa through the To Caucasus box to Poti or Grozny in one movement?
- Can a Near East army leave the Near East map and later come back?
- Can corps enter Constantinople or the Near East map from the main map?
- Which armies can enter or attack on the Near East map?
- Can British units enter Sinai or Turkey before Turkey enters the war?
- Can Central Powers corps reach the Near East map before Bulgaria enters the war?
- Can Turkish units move through the Medina-Aqaba connection, and can a Turkish unit in Medina be activated?
- How many OPS does it cost to activate a space holding both Serbian and Russian units?
Combat
- After a successful flank attack eliminates every defending unit, does the defender still fire back on the Corps 0 column?
- Can a combat card be played in support of an unoccupied fort?
- Do trenches and terrain shift the fire column for both attacker and defender?
- Does a fort's combat factor shift the column when a fort space with a trench is attacked?
- Is there a fire-column penalty when a unit with the lowest column attacks a mountain space?
- Which fire table does each side use when corps, armies or a fort are in the combat?
- In a two-space retreat, must the retreat end in a friendly-controlled space if one is available?
- When a retreat has several destinations, can the stack split, and in what order are spaces chosen?
- Can a unit be eliminated by a one-space retreat when a two-space retreat is possible?
- Where can a retreating unit go when its preferred space, or every friendly space, would be overstacked?
- Can a retreating army go into a space with an enemy fort and no enemy units?
- Can out-of-supply units retreat instead of being eliminated?
- When must the defender retreat after losing a battle?
- Can a defender voluntarily retreat after taking losses?
- How does a defender cancel a retreat by taking an extra step loss?
- Can a defender cancel a retreat with an extra step loss when a fort is in the space?
- Can a Reserve Box corps that replaced an eliminated army cancel a retreat, or does its failure to retreat eliminate the army too?
- Can a full-strength corps that replaced an eliminated army retreat or advance?
- Can an attacker advance after combat when none of its attacking units is at full strength?
- Can an attacker advance after a combat with equal losses if all defenders are eliminated?
- Can an advancing unit besiege an enemy fort on its advance space?
- After combat, can advancing units enter any empty space the defenders left, and does the forest or mountain stop limit movement?
- Who wins a combat: the side that suffered more losses, or the side that caused the higher Loss Number?
- What happens when both sides cause the same Loss Number?
- Does They Shall Not Pass stay in play after a tied combat?
- Who assigns combat losses first, and when is the retreat decided?
- In a flank attack, who fires first, and how do losses follow when the flank attempt succeeds or fails?
- Does a flank attack resolve as two separate combats?
- Is a flank attack optional for the attacker?
- How does the flank attack's +1 die roll modifier work?
- Does an out-of-supply enemy army cancel the flank attack's +1 die roll?
- Can a flank attack be made against an entrenched space, including when a combat card cancels the trench?
- Can a flank attack be made against an army that occupies a fort, or against an occupied fort?
- Can flanking units take losses and advance in a flank attack?
- Do the pinning and flanking units both add their combat factors to the attack?
- Can units of different nationalities attack together from separate spaces?
- Do Belgian units count as British for the multinational attack restriction?
- Do Australian, Canadian, Portuguese and ANA corps count as British in a multinational attack?
- Are US and French units one nationality for multinational attacks?
- Does a combat card that needs a German or British attack require every unit to be of that nationality?
- Can a unit in London attack a space in France or Belgium?
- Can Italian units attack from Valona into Taranto across the dotted line?
- Which units can attack into the Near East map, and can Austro-Hungarian units retreat there?
- Can two different attacks in one action hit the same space, or can one unit attack twice?
- Must every unit in an activated space attack, or can the attacker hold a corps back?
- Can a space holding only enemy units that retreated this round be attacked again?
- Can a played combat card stay in play after combat, and when is it discarded?
- Is a combat card marked with an asterisk recovered if its player wins the combat?
- Are combat cards saved from an earlier won combat discarded if the player loses a later combat they were not used in?
- Can the attacker play the Withdrawal combat card?
- When is the Withdrawal card played in a combat?
- Which step loss does the Withdrawal card negate?
- Can Withdrawal negate an army loss when no corps is in reserve?
- Does Withdrawal bring back a unit already lost, or save a corps when all defenders are eliminated?
- Does Withdrawal retreat the defender one space when combat mandates no retreat?
- Do trenches and terrain affect movement, or only combat?
- What does the -3 Sinai DRM mean for attacks on Port Said or from Sinai?
- Must a full-strength corps from the Reserve Box replace an eliminated army when one is available?
- If an army is eliminated while out of supply, can a Reserve corps still replace it?
- Which British units must take the first loss, and does that priority override taking the maximum losses?
- Does the loss priority apply to every step loss, or only the first?
- Which armies must take the first loss when attacking, and does a defender's army ever have priority?
- If a British army with no matching corps in reserve must absorb a large Loss Number, which unit is permanently eliminated?
- Is a reduced army permanently removed when no corps is available to replace it?
- Does an army flip when hit for less than its Loss Factor, and must the full Loss Number be taken when possible?
- When a flipped army and a corps take losses, what happens to leftover loss points?
- How does an attacker divide losses when attacking from several spaces?
- Can Bulgarian units attack Serbian spaces?
- Can Serbian units retreat into Greece or Salonika when Greece has not entered the war?
- When retreated units share a space with a fort or corps, which fire table defends a later attack?
- Does the mountain terrain shift apply when attacking an empty fort in the mountains?
- How much does a Level 2 trench shift combat columns compared with a Level 1 trench?
- Which column does an army fire on when its attack shifts below column 1, and which column does a 0-1-3 corps use?
- Can a defender cancel a retreat from a trench when the attacker's card negated the trench?
- Does the Von Hutier fires-first effect apply before the flank attempt, and does a multinational attack with one German unit count as a German attack for it?
- Must a retained combat card be reused in later combats, and does it apply beyond the combat it was played in?
- Can British units retreat from France or Belgium to London and back?
- Can a defeated unit retreat into a neutral country?
- Is the Serbian army out of supply when it retreats into a space it does not control?
- Must a defender commit all of its units in a space that is attacked?
- Does a unit that has retreated earlier in the turn have to wait before moving again?
- Can a unit move from a friendly port and attack an enemy port directly, as an amphibious assault?
- Can the Withdrawal card save a British Expeditionary Force unit from a step loss?
- Can an attacker advance onto a fort and besiege it after a 1:1 result, when all defending units are destroyed?
- What happens when the MEF is attacked in its beachhead and cannot retreat?
- What happens to Russian units that cannot complete a two-space retreat into an off-map box?
- Once Turkey enters the war, are Persian spaces Allied-controlled for retreats?
- Does a 2 Loss Factor hit eliminate all corps except the BEF?
- Does a defender have to retreat after losing a combat if no attacking unit is still at full strength?
- When a Belgian army is reduced with no corps in the Reserve Box, must it be removed or can a British army take the losses?
- After a flipped attacker wins at Constantinople, can an unflipped Franco-Russian corps advance into Constantinople?
- What is the maximum Loss Number an attack can inflict in Paths of Glory?
Strategic Redeployment
- Can a German corps strategically redeploy overland through Constantinople to Balikesir, Cana Kale or Izmir in one action?
- Can a German corps SR from the Reserve Box to Balikesir, Cana Kale or Izmir without counting against the Near East corps limit?
- Can the British NE Army or the Russian CAU army strategically redeploy within the Near East map?
- Can a corps be strategically redeployed back into the Reserve Box?
- Can a corps in the Reserve Box SR straight into Rome or another capital of a different nation?
- Do British corps redeployed into a MEF beachhead count against the Near East SR limit?
- Does a British corps moving by sea between two Near East spaces count against the one-corps sea limit?
- Does the one-Central-Powers-corps-per-turn Near East limit apply to movement and attacks?
- Can two Central Powers corps already inside the Near East both SR to another Near East space in the same turn?
- How many Central Powers corps can SR to or from the Near East in one turn?
- Do Turkish corps and armies count against the one-Central-Powers-corps-per-turn limit on Near East SR?
- How many British corps can SR from the Reserve Box into the Near East in one turn?
- Which Allied corps can Strategically Redeploy by sea to or from the Near East, and how many per turn?
- Can Allied corps SR to or from the Near East before Turkey enters the war?
- Where can a Serbian corps SR out of the Reserve Box?
- Can German or Austro-Hungarian corps SR into European Turkey without a supply line through the Balkans?
- Where can a unit be Strategically Redeployed to on the map?
- Does a corps SR'd from the Reserve Box need to trace supply itself?
- When can a corps not SR to or from the Reserve Box because of a captured capital or its supply line?
- After a corps is SR'd out of the Reserve Box, can it keep moving on the map?
- How often can a player use Strategic Redeployment in a turn, and what does it cost?
- What does it cost to Strategically Redeploy a corps between ports by sea, and who can do it?
- Which ports can Central Powers corps use for sea Strategic Redeployment?
- Can an Allied corps SR by sea to or from Constantinople?
- Can an Allied corps SR by sea from a friendly port to the MEF beachhead?
- Can armies SR to or from the Reserve Box?
- Can a British army SR from London to Italy?
- How many corps can one card's SR allowance move?
- Can Turkish corps be SR'd into Medina from the Reserve Box when Medina is out of supply?
- Can the ANA corps go into the Reserve Box or be strategically redeployed from it?
- Can a Portuguese, Australian or Canadian corps SR from the Reserve Box onto a space holding a supplied British unit?
- Can the BEF Corps be strategically redeployed onto the map while the BEF Army is still alive?
- Can Russian units strategically redeploy from or into a space outside Russia, such as Turkey or Persia?
- How many Russian corps may enter the Near East per turn by Strategic Redeployment or by regular movement?
- Where can the Belgian corps SR out of the Reserve Box when Belgian Army 1 is not on the map?
- Can a unit SR into or out of a besieged enemy fort?
- What is the difference between Replacement Points and Strategic Redeployment?
- Can the Central Powers retake Constantinople after the Allies capture it?
- Can a corps be strategically redeployed from the eliminated box?
- Is Constantinople on the Near East map or the main map for Strategic Redeployment?
- Can British units strategically redeploy from London onto inland continental spaces?
Supply
- Can the Allies capture a Central Powers supply source and use it for themselves?
- Can a unit that is activated for movement keep moving after it leaves supply?
- Can an out-of-supply Russian unit use The Great Retreat card?
- Can German or Austro-Hungarian armies trace supply to Constantinople?
- Can Russian units trace supply across dashed lines they cannot move across?
- Can French units draw supply from Belgrade?
- Can an out-of-supply attacking unit use combat cards?
- Can Central Powers supply for Medina trace through Arabia?
- Can units trace supply across a dashed line their nationality cannot cross, such as the Valona to Taranto line?
- During Attrition, can a space trace supply across a dashed line that its units could not cross?
- Can Allied spaces trace supply through a neutral Italy's Taranto while Italy is neutral?
- What happens to control when an Allied space's only unit is eliminated in the Attrition Phase?
- Do Libya and Arabia change control in Attrition when they are out of supply?
- Can Cetinje flip to Central Powers control in Attrition while the Montenegrin corps is on the map?
- If the Montenegrin corps is eliminated, does Cetinje flip to Central Powers control when it goes out of supply?
- If the Allies hold Constantinople, are the Turkish units in the Near East out of supply?
- If an Allied move cuts a Central Powers unit off in the final action, is it eliminated in the same turn?
- Can Central Powers armies trace supply through Constantinople?
- If a unit is taken out of supply during movement, can it be restored to supply later in the same turn?
- Can units that are out of supply be brought back into supply and then moved in the same action round?
- Can a unit trace supply through a port to another friendly port?
- Are units in an Allied port such as Ostend cut off when a land route like Calais is blocked?
- Can an out-of-supply defending army play defensive combat cards?
- When is supply checked during a turn?
- When does a unit become out of supply, does it need an out-of-supply marker, and when is it eliminated?
- Is a German army in Königsberg out of supply if it can trace only by sea to ports that are themselves out of supply?
- Do forts supply adjacent spaces or units?
- Does a fort protect the units stacked with it from out-of-supply attrition?
- Can Turkish units in Medina be out of supply, and what can they still do?
- Are Serbian units in supply when Belgrade falls, and what can they trace supply to?
- Does an out-of-supply army get removed if the enemy units cutting its supply are themselves out of supply?
- Can a space stay in supply while a unit in it is out of supply during Attrition?
- In the Attrition Phase, do out-of-supply spaces change control, or only spaces holding units?
- When does a space switch control when enemy units walk through it during the Action Phase?
- Can the Central Powers trace supply through Sofia or Constantinople, or the Allies through Salonika, before those nations join the war?
- Can supply be traced through a neutral country?
- Can the Central Powers trace overland supply to Constantinople, and can they use its port?
- If Gallipoli is cut off, does Constantinople revert to Central Powers control?
- Can a Strategic Redeployment open a supply path for out-of-supply Allied units?
- Is Rome in supply when Florence and Viterbo are Central Powers controlled?
- Is an army eliminated for being out of supply in the Attrition Phase replaced by a corps from the Reserve Box?
- In the Attrition Phase, are out-of-supply corps removed, including reduced ones?
- If a space is out of supply in the Attrition Phase, does its controller keep it?
- Can supply be traced through a friendly besieged fort?
- What happens to armies that are out of supply at the end of a turn after an Allied encirclement?
- Does Medina flip control when it is out of supply?
- Can a supplied unit move into or through a space holding an out-of-supply friendly unit?
- Can units trace supply through the MEF Beachhead marker?
- If an Italian corps frees Belgrade and is then cut off in attrition, does Belgrade revert to Central Powers control?
- Do spaces converted by the Turkish SN corps suffer attrition if they cannot trace supply?
- Do the Turkish SN corps and the ANA need supply to operate?
- What happens when the Allies capture Essen?
- Can Italy stay in supply after Rome falls?
Forts
- Can a unit move through an enemy fort without besieging it?
- Once one unit has besieged a fort, can the rest of its stack keep moving through the space?
- How many units are needed to besiege a fort?
- Can besieging units leave a fort to end the siege?
- Can the units besieging a fort attack the fort, or attack a neighbouring space?
- How can I attack an unoccupied enemy fort?
- Can an attacker destroy a fort from an adjacent space without besieging it first?
- After winning an attack on an empty enemy fort, can the attacking units advance into its space?
- Can you besiege a fort in a space that holds enemy units?
- When an empty fort is attacked, does it fire back?
- Does a fort add its combat strength to a defence or to an attack?
- How are losses applied to a fort when the units in its space are eliminated?
- Is a besieged fort destroyed when the siege die roll equals its Loss Factor?
- If attrition removes the units besieging a fort, is a siege roll still made?
- Does the automatic siege roll in the Siege Phase cost Operations Points?
- If losses leave a besieging force below the siege minimum, must it retreat?
- Does a besieged fort's space stay under its owner's control?
- Does a space keep its fort status after the fort is destroyed?
- If a fort is destroyed while its space is out of supply, what happens to the space's control?
- Are forts destroyed or changed when they are out of supply?
- Are units inside a fort always in supply?
- Can a flank attack be made against a fort?
- Does a fort defending alone get the terrain benefit of its space?
- Can Russian units attack, enter or besiege a German fort during August 1914?
- Can a desert space or a fort in it be attacked or activated for combat in summer?
- When a besieged fort's besiegers are attacked, do all of them defend, and at what strength?
- Can a besieged fort be relieved by attacking its besiegers from an adjacent space?
- Can a unit leave an enemy fort it entered in an earlier action round?
- If the Withdrawal card saves a corps in a combat that also destroyed its fort, does the fort come back?
War and Peace
- Do the Race to the Sea and OberOst restrictions lift as soon as Central Powers War Status reaches 4?
- Can a player reach Limited War on the first turn (August 1914)?
- When does Turkey enter the war?
- When new cards enter the deck at a War Status level advance, are discards reshuffled before the hand is drawn?
- When does a War Status change take effect for cards that require a War Commitment Level?
- Can Over There be played in the same turn as the Zimmermann Telegram, and can US Reinforcements also be played that turn?
- Does Baku count as a Russian VP space for the Tsar Takes Command condition?
- Can the Bolshevik Revolution be played in the action right after Fall of the Tsar?
- Does Romania's 2 VP go to the Central Powers after Fall of the Tsar?
- Does the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk change how sieges of Russian forts are resolved?
- Can Russian units stack with Allied units?
- Does a War Status event raise only the playing side's War Status?
- When are the Russian Capitulation card prerequisites checked, and does the capitulation marker need to move?
- Does the Italy VP penalty keep applying after the Allies reach Total War until Italy is played, even if the Italy card is not in the Allied hand?
- How much War Status do you need to reach Total War, and how many points are available?
- Are a neutral country's VP spaces added to the track when it enters the war?
- Does Convoy cancel the War Status points from a card already played as an event?
Replacements
- Can a nation spend Replacement Points when the enemy controls or besieges its capital?
- Does Berlin need to be in supply for Germany to spend RPs, and can German units supplied only through Sofia get replacements?
- Can a Belgian army be rebuilt at Calais if Brussels, Antwerp and Ostend are not Allied-controlled and in supply?
- Where can a Serbian army be rebuilt with replacement points?
- Can Serbian armies in Serbia be flipped to full strength, and can eliminated Serbian corps return to the Reserve Box when Belgrade is held by the enemy?
- Can a minor power receive replacement points before it enters the war?
- How many German RPs does the Central Powers get during Total War in the historical variant?
- Does capturing an enemy's capital knock that nation out of the game?
- Do unspent Replacement Points carry over to the next turn, and what happens to a leftover half point?
- How many RPs does it cost to rebuild an eliminated army or flip a reduced unit?
- Where is an eliminated army placed when it is rebuilt with replacement points?
- When an army is rebuilt, are the corps that replaced it sent back to the Reserve Box?
- Can eliminated corps be rebuilt, and how do they reach the map?
- Can units marked with a dot, such as the BEF Army or the French Army of the Orient, receive replacement points?
- Which units are permanently removed when eliminated, instead of going to the Eliminated/Replaceable box?
- When is an army permanently eliminated rather than placed in the replaceable box?
- Are the Reserve Box and the Eliminated/Replaceable box the same thing?
- Can a replacement corps be taken from the eliminated box, or only from the Reserve Box?
- Which corps can never be rebuilt after elimination?
- If the BEF Army is eliminated, can the BEF Corps in the Reserve Box still be brought onto the map by Strategic Redeployment?
- How does an eliminated minor-power corps, such as Romania's, get back onto the map?
- How are Allied RPs split among the minor Allied nations?
- What is the difference between replacements and reinforcements?
- Where do newly built armies and corps enter the map?
- Can two armies be placed in the same space when they are reinforced or rebuilt?
- Can eliminated Russian Cavalry corps be rebuilt?
- Where are re-created Bulgarian corps placed when they return to play?
- Can a replacement corps be a reduced corps when it replaces an eliminated army?
- Can a destroyed army be rebuilt by using a corps already on the map?
Card Notes
- What does the Zimmermann Telegram do when it makes the US an active nation?
- Is the Putnik card removed from the game after 1915?
- Are event cards with an asterisk removed from the game when their event is played?
- How long does the Sud Army event last, and does its card stay in play for the whole turn?
- Can the ANA corps be placed or rebuilt in Arabia when that space is Central Powers controlled?
- How does the Withdrawal card cancel step losses for the defender?
- Does the Withdrawal card require a flank attack to be played?
- Can a card marked May only be played in August or September 1914 be used for non-event actions later in the game?
- How does Place of Execution work: does it add to a CP attack on a French fort, and is it removed afterward?
- Does the +2 DRM from Place of Execution apply when attacking an undestroyed fort space?
- How does a Portuguese corps get onto the map?
- With Kemal, does a Turkish defender fire on the Army table using every unit in the stack?
- Who chooses which British corps is removed under War in Africa?
- Can a Portuguese corps be removed to satisfy a British corps loss under War in Africa?
- Does Lloyd George stop only the British Mandated Offensive, or all British attacks?
- Can the French Army of the Orient be played once Greece is Allied-controlled, before any unit has entered Salonika?
- Where is the French Army of the Orient placed if it is played before the Salonika or Greece event?
- Can the Salonika event be played at any time, or only after Greek entry?
- Can the Salonika event be played when the Central Powers leave Salonika unoccupied and it stays enemy-controlled?
- Can a corps move straight from the Reserve Box to Salonika under the Salonika card?
- Where does the Czech Legion corps go when its card is played as an event, and how does it reach the map?
- Must the 4 OPS of the Brusilov Offensive event be spent on Russian units?
- Does the Russian Desertion card eliminate Russian units or only reduce them?
- Does an Austrian army plus a German corps attacking a mountain hex count as a German attack for Alpenkorps?
- Why are some full-strength Russian corps 1-1-4 and others 1-1-3, and can you choose which to use?
- How many Russian Cavalry Corps counters are there, and what are their factors?
- Where is the marker for the Walther Rathenau card?
- What does Walther Rathenau do if played after Independent Air Force?
- Does Walther Rathenau give Germany a free replacement point even if no card is played for replacements?
- Can the Great Retreat card be played as a combat card to cancel an attack?
- Can Von Below be played against a stack of Italian and British units?
- Can Greek units, or the Greek spaces they hold, be moved or activated before the Greece event?
- Can Brusilov Offensive be played as an event after the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk?
- After Brest-Litovsk, can Russian units still hold a line to shield Allied spaces from attack?
- Does the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk stop attacks but not attrition or supply cutting?
- Can the Sixtus Affair peace-terms roll be made when War Status is above the normal peace threshold?
- Does the Moltke card's activation cost apply to attacks launched from Germany into France?
- How many VP does the Reichstag Truce card give in the Introductory Scenario?
- Can Rape of Belgium be played as an event after Mobilization?
- Can Rape of Belgium be played as an event if Guns of August was not played as an event?
- Are the Moltke and Falkenhayn card effects in force until Falkenhayn is played?
- Can Falkenhayn be played as an event in August or September 1914 if Moltke was not played as an event?
- Does Blockade's VP deduction still apply in the Winter 1915 War Status phase?
- Is Rennenkampf's Schlieffen Edition card misprinted for Replacements?
- When a card that doubles as Ops is played as an event, which resolves first, the event or the Ops?
- Which cards can be played as both event and Ops in the historical scenario, and does that double the Ops value?
- Can the Romanian Late Entry card be used for Ops or Replacement Points after Fall of the Tsar?
- Can Italy or Romania be played for Ops, SR or RP when the CP is at Total War and the AP is still at Limited War?
- What does the extra RP on the Paris taxi card mean when the card is played as an event?
- Can the Libyan Revolt SN unit use the Kemal or Liman von Sanders combat cards?
- How does the UK MEF event work once it is played, and what does the MEF need before it can move or attack inland?
- Does the Prince Max card raise War Status by 3 or 6?
- How is Prince Max's "permanently removed from the game" effect carried out?
- Is Brusilov Offensive a combat card?
- Does the USA Reinforcements card put a full and a reduced US corps into the Reserve Box?
- Can a Polish corps replace an eliminated German army?
- Does a combat card that works against Russian units apply when attacking an unoccupied fort?
- Can a combat card be used in a multinational attack, and does a German card need a German unit?
- What does the German 11th Army counter represent?
- Can Wireless Intercepts be played without a German army, and does the original FAQ requirement still apply?
- Does playing the Süd Army event activate a stack or change its nationality?
- Can the 11th Army card activate an out-of-supply 11th Army?
- Does the Moltke card cancel the Sud Army event?
- Does Alberich cancel every attack into a space, or only one attack from one space?
- Can Race to the Sea raise the Central Powers War Status?
- Are Australian and Canadian corps placed on the map when they enter?
- How often can the Royal Tank Corps attack be used, and where does the card go afterward?
- Does the Yudenich event count as a Russian reinforcement subject to the one-card-per-turn limit?
- Does the von Francois card carry an asterisk, or can it keep returning?
- If GE11 is stacked with other German units, what does activating it cost?
- Can the Sud Army let German corps attack a Russian fort before Oberost?
- Does the Landships card's A:1 notation give a replacement value for minor allies?
General
- Are Paths of Glory FAQ rulings from before the 2018 Deluxe rulebook still valid?
- In a tournament with supply warnings, must the attacker warn the defender before its own attack leaves its units exposed?
- Why is Sedan not given a VP in the Extended Example of Play?
- Is the omitted German corps in CP Action 6 of the Extended Example of Play correct?
- In the Extended Example of Play, does the CP player draw 7 cards in September 1914 with CP #14 still in hand?
- Are the double-sided German and Allied markers used as control markers?
- If a minor country's capital falls, does it surrender?
- Should I use the latest living rules when I have an older edition?
- Can Turkish armies be played in Europe?
- Can units enter the territory of a neutral country?
- How many Russian corps can switch between the Near East and the main map each turn?
- Can a defeated Russian corps retreat from the Near East into the Caucasus, and does that use the one-corps limit?
- Can Australian corps be used in the Salonika invasion?
CDG Solo SystemExpansion
- Under the CDG Solo System, can you take a 1 Ops action instead of playing the card the Fate Die selects?
- In Paths of Glory with the CDG Solo System, should an emptied slot be refilled when Cards Remaining is 0 to 4?
- How does the CDG Solo System handle Epic Ancients II in C&C Ancients, with up to three Field Command cards a turn?
- When refilling an empty slot "maintaining facing", whose facing counts?
- In Paths of Glory with the CDG Solo System, what happens when a side's draw deck runs out mid-turn?
- What happens to cards on the Card Display in a reshuffle under the CDG Solo System?
- In C&C with the CDG Solo System, does a six-card hand mean six cards on the Card Display?
- In Paths of Glory with the CDG Solo System, can you play any face-up display card, or only the ones the Fate Die allows?
- Is the Paths of Glory Fate Die rolled for combat under the CDG Solo System?
- Can a side with no cards left take the 1 Ops automatic operation under the CDG Solo System?
- In a C&C game under the CDG Solo System, when the e< result is rolled with fewer than two cards face up, which cards turn over?
- How does Seppuku change hand size in a Samurai Battles solo game?
- Do cards left on the Card Display carry over to the next turn in the CDG Solo System?
- Does playing a combat event card count as a card play that refills its slot in the CDG Solo System?
- In the CDG Solo System, how many order cards does each side have when one side has only four?
- In Empire of the Sun with the CDG Solo System, can you play card C and also the lowest face-up Ops card on a C< roll?
- What does the Cards Remaining track do in the CDG Solo System?
- How does the inactive side choose its response cards in a CDG Solo System combat?
Paths of Glory: Player's GuideExpansion
- Did the Allies win in Fall 1918 under the Historical Summer 1917 scenario?
- Does the Central Powers player choose which Russian units are reduced by the Russian Desertions card?
- Is a clear space with a trench still a clear space for the Achtung Panzer card?
- Can the optional Maude card (card 61) apply to more than one attack by British units?
- Is Russian Cavalry (card 57) a Reinforcement card?