Option 55

City Based Volunteers (CBVs) represent units of volunteers who choose to fight for occupying foreign powers.

General Rules
CBVs whose city is an aligned minor country are considered units of that minor country. Otherwise, they are owned by their controlling major power.
 * Chinese CBVs are owned by their city's respective faction (Nationalist or Communist), and will change faction if the faction controlling their city changes.

Special Additions
CBVs have a city name on their back in place of an availability year. In this case, they may be placed in their respective force pool if their major power controls the named city.

If a CBV's city is later captured by another major power, it is removed from the game if it is in the force pool or production circle. It may return to the force pool if the city is recaptured by its major power.

Free French (FF) CBVs are only available for France or Free France after one or more of the following have occurred:
 * Vichy is declared
 * France is incompletely conquered
 * Nov/Dec 1942

Reinforcements
CBVs arriving as reinforcements must be placed in their designated city.

Production
A CBV cost no build points the first time it is constructed. If it is reconstructed at any time later in the game (such as after being destroyed and returned to the force pool), its controller must pay the printed build point cost.
 * If Option 39 is selected, a CBV does not count towards gearing limits for the turn that it is constructed for free.