What's the diffrence between "land Bridge" and "Sealion"

[losttribe04]

I know that they are both Germany strategies to move into London.  How is one diffrent from the other?

LT

[Jennifer]

I believe the term land bridge is different than sea lion.

Sea lion is a term used by the community to describe a specific attack.

Land Bridge was a term used by the company in the original A&A game (classic or 2nd ed) to describe action where you load and unload a transport from one territory to another without moving the transport.

Honestly, it is my belief the term land bridge has done nothing but brought about confusion.  I can’t remember how many times I’ve had to instruct someone that the transport can still only move 2 infantry or 1 armor (in AAR it’s different, but I don’t remember seeing the term in the manual with AAR, it could be, I just don’t remember seeing it.  Anyway, in AAR it would be any combo of two ground units provided at least one is an infantry unit.)  And they’ve argued that a landbridge means unlimited movement on a transport.

Sigh….

Anyway, I personally just ignore the term land-bridge.  It’s useless in my opinion.  Transporting something is the same as land-bridging it except your transport doesn’t literally move on the board (but technically it does traverse the sea zone, just doesn’t leave it.)

[losttribe04]

OK So Japan could “landbridge” from Japan’s home island to Manchuria.  Sealion is the the name of the German plan to move into London.

Thanks Jen,

LT