@Krieghund Thanks! (For completeness, I should have been more clear in that Germany controlled Persia at the beginning of its turn in this example. i.e. there was/is a legal landing zone for the fighter)
Odd question regarding capture/movement of AA Gun
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Okay, so had an odd situation crop up while playing 2nd Edition over the weekend. The American player captures W. Europe from the Germans. On their Non-Combat move, they proceed to move the newly captured AA Gun onto his transport to keep the Germans from re-capturing it on their following turn.
Is this legal?
Is it in the spirit of the rules? -
that is legal
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All of the clubs that I have played in state that you cannot move a newly captured aa gun during noncombat. One example is here, at the AAMC site (geesh, I didn’t even know this still existed lol).
http://www.aamc.net/bunker/aaruleclrfd.htm
If you scroll down to the section labeled “Antiaircaft Guns”, you will see “Six important gun facts are: 1. If you capture an enemy AA gun during your combat movement, you cannot move that AA gun during the non-combat phase of the same turn.”
This was the case in all PBEM clubs (play by e-mail) as well as the CD clubs. I think there was an official clarification by Larry Harris somewhere, but perhaps Krieghund could confirm that for me.
So, I would say that the move is illegal.
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Interesting…. I too would like an official ruling on this!
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It’s not legal. The rule that DizzKneeLand33 quoted came from an official set of rules clarifications published in 1991.
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Thanks for the response!
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