Territory and sea zone clarification please?

@slimpickinz:

OK so me and my buddies are wondering the following questions about territories and sea zones:

1. Are territories and sea zones considered attached? eg Flying over Kwangtung and SZ 59, is it considered one move, or two moves, one through the sea zone and one for the territory?

2 moves.

2. Are naval units in sea zones adjacent to territories vulnerable to attack from air and land units in the same territory? eg Can German navy units pass through sea zone 6 without being attacked by air and land units from England?

Yes, it can pass. Units on territories don’t affect sea zones. Keep always on mind that Combat Move and Combat phases occur separately (enemy units cannot engage in combat while you’re combat moving your units, only after all moves have been made and then the combat phase begins).

3. Do air units count sea zones adjacent to territories as a move or as part of the territory? eg Does it take 2 moves to fly to western europe from eastern canada or 4 moves, counting the sea zones as separate territories?

Same answer as question #1: 4 moves, since moving from a territory to a SZ also counts as a move.

Welcome, slimpickinz!

The important thing to understand is that land territories and sea zones are separate spaces, even islands inside sea zones.  What goes on in one has no effect on the other, with the exception of amphibious assaults.

Sea zones do count as separate spaces, when air is moving over them. But in the case of transports it’s different. Not sure if this was clarified, but land units can be loaded from a territory onto a transport in a sea zone next to it, and the land units are not considered to be moving, only the transport is. The transport can move one or two sea zones and offload the land units into a territory bordering the sea zone where the transport stops. The offloading is not technically considered a “move” for the land units either. However, land units cannot move once they’ve been offloaded, they’ve got to stay where they are and you must wait for your next turn to move them. And as it says in the rulebook, transports must stop movement once they offload. Also you cannot move a guy into a territory in non-combat and then take it on a transport across water on the same turn, because non-combat movement is considered to be happening at the same time. For example, the inf in WCan can move into ECan, but you cannot take him along for the ride to UK on your transport, you can only take the ECan tank. You will have to wait another turn to ferry him across.

Loading onto and/or unloading from transports is definitely considered to be movement for land units, as they are moving from one space to another.

@Krieghund:

Loading onto and/or unloading from transports is definitely considered to be movement for land units, as they are moving from one space to another.

Yeah, true, what I meant was that the sea zones the transport moves through do not count as spaces for the land units, only the territories where they’re being loaded and offloaded do.