General Rule
Each Player receives reinforcements periodically throughout the game. These are placed on the map during the Reinforcement Phase of each Player-Turn.
Where Reinforcements Arrive
Japanese Reinforcements may either enter at the north map edge, arriving by road from Siam, or enter as naval reinforcements in the Japanese Off-Map port (they are stationed in ports in Indochina).
Commonwealth Reinforcements arrive at Singapore only.
Restrictions
There are no Stacking restriction during reinforcements, but Stacking will be checked at the end of the Reinforcement Phase. The Reinforcement Phase will not end as long as overstacked hexes exist.
There is no stacking restriction in the Japanese Off-Map area.
Procedure
The game mechanisms control every aspect of units reinforcements ; when a unit is about to enter the map as reinforcement, all its reachable reinforcement areas are displayed on the map. This way, units can't deploy on forbidden locations.
- At the start of the Reinforcement Phase, every Friendly reinforcement unit is added to the Reinforcement Panel of the playing area
- If no unit is selected, clicking on an Available unit will select it and display its reachable reinforcement areas
- If a unit is selected, clicking on any hex of its reachable reinforcement area will deploy the unit to that hex. That unit will then be marked as Reinforced.
- If a unit is selected, clicking on it again will cancel its selection. [Esc Key]
- If no unit is selected, clicking on a unit that was previously deployed will abort its deployment
At the end of this Phase, all undeployed units will return as Reinforcements for the next turn !