Errata Question

@wittmann:

No YG. There are no Naval or Air Base changes from First to Second.

Thanks.

thanx a lot for the answer.

The fighters can scramble.  However, since there is no defending destroyer, they can’t hit the sub.  As a result, the transport will be sunk anyway.

@calvinhobbesliker:

If you move a sub into a SZ with 2 transports, are you allowed to just kill 1 and retreat the sub?

No.  They are both automatically destroyed.

@Hellmet:

Thanks all for the quick answers!!  Just a point of clarity, I assume that the sub must fight or flee on HIS (the US) combat turn and NOT Japan’s.

Of course.

@Gharen:

I think if your ship ends up in an enemy convoy zone and survives to their collect income phase it automatically deducts from their total, so that being said I believe you can attack to an enemy sea zone assuming you kill something or noncombat to one.  The convoy raiding takes place on the opponents collect income phase so its entirely different from your combat.

right!

Ok, that makes sense.  Sorry for the dumb question. :-P

I would like to thank you guys for the advice, because I won my game against my best buddy.

I immediately pushed my Navy South and took NSW from the Austrailians (he had alot of troops in Queensland).  I also built a factory in Kwangtung which the next turn I made 9 men there (and a transport) followed by 10 tanks the next turn.  I traded NSW for a few turns back and forth eventually killing off all the Australian troops two turns before America could send their then massive navy to Austrailia.

I used two transports and took Sumatra and Malaya with Battleship and Destroyer support, and smashed the remaining Brits and 3 Chinese in Yunnan at the cost of about 8 planes to the 4 British planes and several infantry.

With Australia clear of troops I moved transports and bombers into a poor India and took it over and blocked the United States from reaching Austrailia, Japan, or the Phillipenes.

Thank you all for the advice, but next time Ill attack sooner with Japan, the Brits got rich fast which caused me a big headache.

@Krieghund:

@Battlingmaxo:

pg 16

Combat  step 2 : attacking subs fire and hit units are placed behind casualty strip ?  I assume this is an error as in the next paragraph the defending subs casualties are removed from play before proceeding to step 3

No, this is not an error.  The units are placed behind the casualty strip because defending subs that are chosen as casualties will return fire.  You will notice that the last thing that happens in step 2 is that these casualties are removed.

That line was the source of my confusion.  So subs chosen as casualties return fire; other unit casualties are removed prior to this.