If an airbase is bombed, can infantry still paratroop?

@TheDesertFox said in Can fighters scramble into a seazone later in the round if they already participated in another fight and had to land?:

If Italy used their 2 fighters to attack Greece and they moved them back to Italy, can they scramble those 2 fighters if the navy adjacent to Southern Italy is attacked?

Why not? The fighters’ attack takes place during Italy’s turn. When an enemy power attacks Southern Italy scrambling occurs as a defender’s move at the end of the attacker’s Combat Move Phase.

@nubnumber1 just like a fighter unit in A&A is meant to represent many aircraft,think of a destroyer unit representing a group (flotilla I think is the term) of destroyers.Military history has many examples of small,yet determined, forces delaying the progress of larger forces. eg 101st airborne in Bastogne dec 1944

Thanks for the replies everyone.

As it happens, there was some confusion about when the planes actually landed, so it turns out both my opponent and I were correct in a sense.

The UK planes actually landed on Greece during Italy’s turn after an adjacent UK carrier was damaged, so the move was legal after all.

My bad for incorrectly believing the planes landed on Greece during the UK turn, and neither of us realized what the other was talking about.  :-D

Good to see our fellow AAAers always ready to help out with good answers, though, so thanks again all.  :-)

@SouthsideCH:

If as Germany I want to attack all the surface ships around the UK can I declare a strategic bombing attack against his air base with a lone strat bomber, knock it out and he cannot scramble later? That assumes he does not intercept on that particular attack. Am I reading it right that there is a certain sequence in combat?

Missed this originally.

You can strat bomb the airbase. As long as it has three or more damage and is not repaired, it cannot be used to scramble later. However, if you combine the raid on the airbase with the attack on the adjacent sea zone, the defender has the opportunity to scramble before any combat (including the strategic bombing raid) is resolved.

Much more effective is a 1-2 punch. For instance, Italy would strat bomb the airbase, and then Germany would hit the fleet before the UK had an opportunity to repair the airbase.

Marsh

@bracconebaldo:

In the case i mobilize new naval units in an occupied SZ…the opponent can always move his naval units from that SZ?

Yes, he is not forced to fight your new reinforcements. He can opt but doesn’t have to. I think this is the only situation where units can (must) move during the CM without triggering a combat.

Ofc, those units cannot move again during the NCM…

@P@nther:

So Paratroopers (as Air units) cannot fly over friendly neutrals.
They cannot fly over unfriendly and strictly neutrals, either, unless they are attacking them.
Is this correct?

Yes.

@P@nther:

Is my assumption correct?

Yes.

idk…… you usually need those planes to fight russia, and like you said, britan wont be doing many landings anyway…

This is a tactic everyone should consider in their games.  Especially for the United Kingdom, or Nazi Germany when under Duress…

Several Seazone’s Have multiple territories that touch them.  For example, Eire, Scotland, and London, all Service Sz109.

A new German strategy - is to pull a tradition british bypass,  Threaten Sea-Lion, build a few subs for economic damage, and keep britain locked down on their island, relatively unable to make a navy to escape!

As you build one or two, or three ships at a time, the Gerries will use their subs and fgt’s to piece meal you off, trading subs for ships, or aircraft.

Building a second, or third Airbase, can allow you to essentially flood the zone with 6 or 9 aircraft for the rest of the game.  You will always have a navy.

The same can be said for the Germans, if they are smart, and build a dst or two, mixed with airbase flooding.  Consider this if you want to Stop or delay invasions into france and normandy.  AB in Holland, or Normandy,  Flood Sz110, and 112 can be serviced by Denmark, and Norway - ontop of West Germany.  Not that the Nazi’s will have 9 planes necessary to field this defense, but with italian support it’s possible, and certainly an obstacle not to be trifled with.