Odd question regarding capture/movement of AA Gun

[crsluggo]

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?

[Imperious Leader]

that is legal

[DizzKneeLand33]

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.

[crsluggo]

Interesting…. I too would like an official ruling on this!

[Krieghund]

It’s not legal.  The rule that DizzKneeLand33 quoted came from an official set of rules clarifications published in 1991.

[crsluggo]

Thanks for the response!