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Re: FAQ follow-up questions on Warships escorting Transports
« Reply #10 on: January 29, 2010, 11:04:22 am » Quote

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OK, here is the final entry:

Q.  Submarines can attack transports that move through their sea zone “unaccompanied by surface warships”.  Under exactly what conditions may moving transports be attacked?
A.  If at any time during a transport’s movement it finds itself in a sea zone with a submarine belonging to a power with which it is at war and there is no friendly surface warship in the sea zone belonging to a power that is at war with the enemy power, it may be fired upon.

This seems to contradict what you said in this thread on page 4.  Which is the final ruling?

can 1 fighter tie up 1 other fighter in a dogfight like in pacific(origanal)

@Krieghund:

I’m afraid I have no idea what you’re talking about.  The only dogfighting in the original Pacific occurred during SBRs.

:lol:

@Krieghund:

I’m afraid I have no idea what you’re talking about.  The only dogfighting in the original Pacific occurred during SBRs.

:lol: :lol: :lol:

@cminke:

can 1 fighter tie up 1 other fighter in a dogfight like in pacific(origanal)

For a minute there, I thought you were referring to the old CAP system, but when you mentioned ‘other fighter’, you kind of lost me.

@cminke:

ok heres the senario…. USA  has 2fightrs, 2bb,and 2 dds  japan has a fightr and 3 subs. can usa choose to use 1 fighter to tie up 1 jap figher in a 1v1 combat both hitting on 1? this is how i under stand it. (pardon my spelzing)

Nope.  Not in this game.  The only dogfights occur during strategic bomb raids.

I have a question about strategic bombing and scrambling to defend a sea zone.
Kreig, I have a question that came up in our last game and we were so stumped that we had to flip a coin to decide.

If I’m attacking an island the has 5 fighters on an airbase, what happens if I send in an amphibious assault and strategically bomb the airfield at the same time?  For example, I send in 2 fighters to escort the bomber on the raid and “x” number of transports and warships to assault that same island.  2 fighters scramble to defend vs the strategic bombing and 2 fighters scramble to defend the sea zone leaving one fighter to defend vs the land units.  The dogfight kills no fighters on either side and the bomber does 3+ points of damage to the airbase, meaning no air units can scramble to defend the sea zone.  What happens to the 2 fighters that were assigned to scramble to the sea zone now that the airbase is too damaged to let them do that?  Do they do nothing that round since they were assigned to scramble before the bombing raid, or do they get to defend in the land battle (which also doesn’t seem right since dogfighting planes don’t get to do two things and that gives less incentive to scramble to defend the airfield since you have a safety net of “if the bombing is successful, at least I can still automatically fight in the actual island defence”)?

Thanks in advance

Well, the rulebook says scrambling occurs at the beginning of the conduct combat phase.  Then SBR’s occur.  So your scrambled aircraft left the undamaged airbase to arrive at the sea zone, and then the airbase got bombed.  So it appears to me that the fighters are indeed scrambled, and the bombing of the airbase doesn’t prevent that, as it occurred at a later time.

Along those same lines if the scrambled fighters defeat the naval armada, would they be able to land on the damaged
airfields or would they crash?

@cond1024:

Along those same lines if the scrambled fighters defeat the naval armada, would they be able to land on the damaged
airfields or would they crash?

Air units don’t require air bases to land; they can land on any territory they or an ally controls.

Scrambling question:

Scramble: Defending fighters and tactical bombers (strategic
bombers cannot scramble) located on islands that have
operative airbases can be scrambled to defend against attacks
in the sea zones surrounding those islands.

Is it considered an attack if you move through an unoccupied SZ that contains an enemy island w/air base enroute to attack another?

Say an American force wishes to sail past the Carolines, Fighters on the island but not enemy ships in the SZ, and attack Paulau?  Could the Japanese Caroline fighters scramble and fight the American navy as it passes?  Or is it not considered an attack in the SZ because its empty?

The Alaska sea zone 1 is blocked from sea zone 2. The space between the Aluetian islands force you to make an extra movement. Is this just an error in the way it was drawn. If you are on the far west end of sea zone 1, can you move one space to sea zone 2. If you can that would mean you are traveling between islands and are traveling along the territory line, kind of crossing it.

Questions:
Where is it written in the rules that a transport must move with an escorting boat?

Would that not contradict the un-escorted transport being shot at by subs?

AC