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Declared amphibious assault with supporting air units.. sea combat results in retreat. Air still have to fight?

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As above…transport was turned back due to wiffing sea battle…do declared attacking air units still have to fight 1 round in the territory?
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Yes. They must fight for one round before they can retreat.
Pacific 1940 Second Edition Rules (Renegade Version) page 17.
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Can scrambled air units fight in the land half of an amphibious assault?

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The confusion seems to be in you’re holding back naval ships for naval bombardment. The advantage about scrambling planes is that it forces the attacker to commit all their naval ships regardless if they want to or not. That’s why it is sometimes wise to scramble in a losing battle if the enemy is relying on bombardment for victory. The easiest situation would be when Japan invades the Philippine islands. If Japan was so aggressive that all they brought was two infantry with two cruisers as example. I would scramble the fighter in that situation because while I will lose the sea battle, if you choose to invade the island after the battle, you’re doing it without naval support which gives my defending infantry a better chance at winning.
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Successful Sea Lion. And then?

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I tried out Sea Lion in a game, again, with a few changes. I did do a J1 because its just sooo good for Japan.

*before Sea Lion invasion, the U.S. positioned itself for Gibraltor route, rather than Canada. So Germany used its cruiser in SZ104 and bombed Gibraltor’s naval base I2 so the U.S. could not counter attack. Alternatively, if the U.K. hadn’t had planes in place to reinforce, I might’ve let U.S. retake London, so UK could collect on UK3, and Germany could just take London again on G4 and pocket 30ipc instead of 8.
*on G3, Germany bought a carrier for SZ110 so transports wouldn’t be sunk. Bombers couldn’t hit because I’d taken Scotland on G2
*on G3 I bought 3 inf for Normandy so that they could end up in London on G4 with the 3 inf I could buy and prevent the U.S. from taking it.
*used all the inf from Norway/Finland for Sea Lion, except one as a blocker in Finland. This left quite a lot of German troops in the way on mainland Europe, 25+. I parked them in Romania along with Italy’s 2inf, 2arton G3 once Russia committed its stack to the southern route. He never did attack there.

*also on G3/G4, I bought slow movers. I had 10 transports available to take back Norway, Finland, and also hit Baltic States and Novgorod all at once. This was a serious hit to Russia who lost 10ish inf/art spread out over these areas.

With Japan whooping in the Pacific, the U.S. had an impossible choice and made the mistake of splitting his focus. He never did liberate London.

Italy committed its land forces to Eastern Europe. I used its planes to hit anything I could of the UK’s in the Med or Egypt. By the end of turn 5, UK had 2 inf and an anti air gun, 2 transports left, total.

Russia was a PIA for quite a while, but by round 6 the front line was finally at Ukraine in the south and Germany solidly had Leningrad, and could start bombing Moscow and buying nothing but fast movers.

IPC’s were nice. After G4, Germany was making 52 ipc base plus 15 ipc NO bonuses (London, Scandinavia, and Novgorod). This plus the 30 ipcs from sacking London easily paid for the units to take and keep London.
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Placing units

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@Locke888:

Question: can I buy something but not place it on the board until my next turn?
My buddy bought 3 transports then proceeded to attack me with his navy but I wiped him out. Placing the transports on the board will just lead to me sinking them easily on my next turn since nothing will be able to defend them. Can he hold them until next round?

No. He has to place them. Hopefully there’s more than that one IC to place them so they are not destroyed before his next turn. But he cannot “hold” them. They must be placed on the board. At least that’s how we’ve always played it.
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Alpha 2 Sea Lion

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With the relative ease of taking London and Calcutta (in opposition to Sydney and Muskva) it seems better to go after England

But beyond that, if you take London, you negate all of England’s income, even if you cannot take the territories! Worse yet, Calcutta can take stuff and can liberate stuff on the Atlantic map, but can never collect for it, so you’ve effectively, permanently ended England.

Just my current thoughts, I reserve the right to change my mind with little to no notice and for whatever reason I so choose. (Woman’s perogative.)
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Retreating Aircraft.

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I think the only time anything can retreat separately is with an amphibious invasion.

If you only have attacking subs and planes, the subs could submerge (assuming no enemy destroyer) but the planes would have to wait one round before retreating.
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Unit Pairings

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@YHZ:

Do the attack value for pairings stay the same when the unit that allows it is taken as a casualty?
For example, if I’m attacking something with a fighter and a tac, and i choose the fighter as a casualty, does the tac remain at 4 for the next roll?

Also, can planes keep attacking subs once the destroyer is destroyed?

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No and no. Each round of battle you look at what you have. If you have a tac with no fighter or tank, it’s attacking at 3 (if a fighter or tank was lost in the previous round of battle, you’re immediately down to a 3). Same with artillery pairings.

When you go into a round of battle with no destroyers, you have now lost your capability to hit subs. This can work to your advantage, too. If you take off all destroyers, then your opponent can’t choose subs for your plane hits. Make sure you separate your plane and boat rolls for this reason.
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MOVED: Defensive Retreats

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Illegal combat?

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If i remember correct, even a lone AA stops a blitz

Or a lone minor complex, or a lone major complex, or a lone naval base, or a lone air base…… :-)

All of those have to be lone.

Whaaaa?? It’s not like you can blitz through a territory with a complex, air base, and naval base. Your comment makes no sense.

I meant that you can’t have a naval base that’s not “lone”(similar for others) since you can’t have more than one naval base in a territory

Dude, “lone” means that’s the only thing in the territory!

I was using the definition that lone naval base means it’s the only naval base in the territory. Thus, every naval base is lone

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