Do Aircraft count II ?

[MicroPilot]

Raptor wrote: "Here are the rules from the book.

Page 10: If neither player has won at the end of turn 10, count the point costs of the units on the battle map.

Page 29: battle map: The playing area on which the game is played. The battle map consists of four map sections."

Y2UASK replied and pointed to these threads:

http://boards.avalonhill.com/showthread.php?t=10398

http://boards.avalonhill.com/showthread.php?t=10404

In addition to the rules that Raptors has quoted there is this from the Set 3 Insert that lays out the rules for the expanded turn sequence state:

End of Turn: At the end of the turn, remove your surviivng Aircraft from the battle map. You wont be able to place disrupted Aircraft during your next flight phase - you'll have to wait until the disruption wears off first.


In the threads that Steve referenced for his answer to Raptor's question he says that planes do count towards the point total, as long as they have been on the battle map at least once.

However it was not explained how planes that cannot be on the battle map at the end of the turn, jive with the Page 29: Battle Map definition and the definition of victory from page 10 from the rule book .

Steve,

Can you explain the reasoning here as it seems to me that Raptors interpretation of the rules is correct, based on all published rules.

[Y2UAsk]

As new units with new special abilities appear, they create situations that aren't covered in the rulebook. That's what's happened here. So consider this official errata (we'll get it into the errata document shortly) --

Change the text of the third paragraph under "How to Win" on page 7 of the rulebook to, "If neither player has won at the end of turn 10, count the points of the units on the battle map and of surviving aircraft that were placed on the battle map during at least one flight phase. The player whose units are worth the most points is the winner."

Steve