Naval ?'s

I absolutely agree. If the transport wants to eventually move into a SZ that was occupied by enemy forces at the beginning of a turn, that constitudes and attack and needs to be declared at the beginning. Of course, if they plan on unloading troops to an enemy occupied territory after the naval battle (assuming success) they can do that as well, but it must be declared.

I’ve had people try and convince me that you could use a Navy to clear ships out of a SZ and then move a transport ship through this SZ into another during the non-combat phase. If they are attacking at the final destination, this is obviously against the rules, but to my surprise I could not find a rule specifically stating this was illegal if they only unload troops to friendly territories. Can anyone give me some backup on this issue?

@Loki:

I absolutely agree. If the transport wants to eventually move into a SZ that was occupied by enemy forces at the beginning of a turn, that constitudes and attack and needs to be declared at the beginning. Of course, if they plan on unloading troops to an enemy occupied territory after the naval battle (assuming success) they can do that as well, but it must be declared.

I’ve had people try and convince me that you could use a Navy to clear ships out of a SZ and then move a transport ship through this SZ into another during the non-combat phase. If they are attacking at the final destination, this is obviously against the rules, but to my surprise I could not find a rule specifically stating this was illegal if they only unload troops to friendly territories. Can anyone give me some backup on this issue?

I do not believe that there is any problem with this. A strat twist i like is clearing out the UK seazone as Germany with my 2 subs and planes, and then using my left over transport (which did not participate in this battle, even as cannon fodder) to dump 2 inf from Fin onto Algeria to give some punch to Africa and slow down operation Torch.

you said you couldn’t find a place in the rulebook that said you couldn’t attack at the transports final detination in non-combat?? you obviously cannot attack in non-combat, just look at the name of the section

I don’t think I was making myself clear.

The situation which I cannot find a rule prohibiting is as follows:

Your navy is located in SZ #1. The fighting units (subs, aircraft, battleships, etc.) engage an enemy navy occupying adjacent SZ #2. This navy is defeated during the combat phase and you occupy SZ2 with your remaining units.

During the non-combat phase, it is legal to move transports (from either SZ1 or another SZ _through_SZ2 and into SZ3. To me this shouldn’t be legal since the ships engaged in battle had to stop after the battle, you shouldn’t be able to move through this zone during the non-com phase of the same turn, even if you don’t engage in combat.

@Loki:

I don’t think I was making myself clear.

The situation which I cannot find a rule prohibiting is as follows:

Your navy is located in SZ #1. The fighting units (subs, aircraft, battleships, etc.) engage an enemy navy occupying adjacent SZ #2. This navy is defeated during the combat phase and you occupy SZ2 with your remaining units.

During the non-combat phase, it is legal to move transports (from either SZ1 or another SZ _through_SZ2 and into SZ3. To me this shouldn’t be legal since the ships engaged in battle had to stop after the battle, you shouldn’t be able to move through this zone during the non-com phase of the same turn, even if you don’t engage in combat.

as i said before,
AFAIK it is legal, and i have done this before. Note: this is non-combat movement.

oh i thought you were moving a transport through a seazone in which a battle had just ended in order to attack an island, but now i understand what you meant. sorry for the misunderstanding

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Nicely put Wild

maybe loki has confused this w/ diplomacy, b/c in that an army cannot retreat/move into a territory that there was a deadlock in on that turn

I agree with c_c_,

Well said W_O!