Amphibious assault - rules question

Spring 42 is pretty close to balanced.  0-3 to Allies would be the expected bid range.  Over at GTO, people play with preplaced Allied bids (from Russia 3 to UK6) but these extra units are not placed in critical locations, and are therefore less useful than a single infantry placed in Egypt or Karelia would be.

@wittmann:

Afternoon SeismicAssault.
You were both right to not remove the Transports.
The attacker has to have a unit left to hit the Transports and he did not.

Thanks!  I was pretty sure that’s the way it went, but wanted to make sure.

Yes.

Yes, it’s legal.  Of course, if you destroy all of the defending units in the first combat round, you’re stuck.

@Dukla:

Is it ok to take one territory with one tank and in the same combat move round do blitz with another tank from the same territory{as first tank came}through the NEW territory?{I HAVE 2 TANKS IN ES.EUROPE,1 IS TAKING{unoccupied hostile} UKRAINE AND AFTER I DO MOVE AND BATTLE WITH THE 2nd TANK IN CAUCAS.

Yes, because the blitzed territory is unoccupied.

My foe was not aware of this rule.  Since my 4 fighters scored 3 hits along with my 9 attacking bombers 3 hits against all 6 of his fighters scoring hits I might suggest we redo that round!  Thanks Krieg!

@ragnarok628:

wait, so the number of pieces DOES limit how many ICs can be on the board?

No. The only edition where the number of existing pieces limited the number of units you could have on the board was on Classic, in the booklet that came with the rules addendum.

@lasttactics:

So couple questions.
1. Do you need to have a transport unloading onto a coast for an amphibious assault to take place?

Yes!
@lasttactics:

Can it just be one battleship on the coast and maybe some land units already on an adjacent territory moving towards the coast?

No!
@lasttactics:

2. Assuming no enemy sea units are in the way and its purely a land fight, does each battleship get one shot only for the entire coast battle?

No. The number of ships that can make bombardment attacks is limited to one ship per land unit being offloaded from the transports
in that coastal territory. And it is only one shot (per ship allowed) for the entire amphibious assault.

@lasttactics:

Can the battleship be hit by the enemy land units?

No!
@lasttactics:

3. Completely unrelated to amphibious assaults, but if there is an enemy territory with no units in it, am I only allowed to capture it during my combat phase, or can I capture it during my noncombat phase?

Combat phase only!
HTH :-)