Okay, so current theory is this is an illegal move, but neither Gamerman nor I are 100% sure on it:
Can you over fly a friendly neutral you are activating that round, during non-combat movement.
Example:
- England has an aircraft somewhere. In order to fly it to where she wants it to be, she has to fly over a friendly neutral. She happens to have an infantry unit available to activate the friendly neutral and does so. Is the air space considered a valid space to fly?
Rationales:
1) Literally the territory was not friendly or hostile at the start of the round.
2) You wouldn’t be able to blitz through the territory legally.
3) It is not a combat move, even hostile nations cannot stop you from flying over them in non-combat movement.
4) You cannot fly over neutrals in non-combat movement.
5) You may certainly fly over friendly territories during non-combat movement, and you are making it friendly by sending a liberation force to remove the oppressive regime currently there (I dunno, how do you justify Persians and Greeks surrendering to the British???)
I’m not referring to true neutrals or hostile neutrals. Just friendly ones. I’m thinking NO, but then, I’ve only had 1 game back in 9 months, and I am not going to open the shrink wrap on my new global boxes and pull the rules especially as my trusted go to people don’t really know for sure one way or the other. :P