The confusion seems to be in you’re holding back naval ships for naval bombardment. The advantage about scrambling planes is that it forces the attacker to commit all their naval ships regardless if they want to or not. That’s why it is sometimes wise to scramble in a losing battle if the enemy is relying on bombardment for victory. The easiest situation would be when Japan invades the Philippine islands. If Japan was so aggressive that all they brought was two infantry with two cruisers as example. I would scramble the fighter in that situation because while I will lose the sea battle, if you choose to invade the island after the battle, you’re doing it without naval support which gives my defending infantry a better chance at winning.
Mobilizing a CV and landing planes on it
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Can you mobilize a CV in a SZ that contains planes that would otherwise be lost if not for that CV? Are the planes lost? Is the only way to have planes on a brand new CV to build them at the same time? Thanks!
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Can you mobilize a CV in a SZ that contains planes that would otherwise be lost if not for that CV? Are the planes lost? Is the only way to have planes on a brand new CV to build them at the same time? Thanks!
If I understand you correctly then yes you can build a cv and place it in a SZ containing planes that have expended all their movement points, or even ones that could land elsewhere and they are not lost. You can even plan an attack with planes stating that their movement will end on a newly built CV as to create a means of landing them if I am playing right lol.
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Planes land in Noncombat movement phase and the newly built CV will be placed on the board only in the Mobilize new units phase of your turn (cf. Turn sequence A&A Europe rulebook 1940 2nd edition page 12). Your aircrafts would be lost.
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@Sire:
Planes land in Noncombat movement phase and the newly built CV will be placed on the board only in the Mobilize new units phase of your turn (cf. Turn sequence A&A Europe rulebook 1940 2nd edition page 12). Your aircrafts would be lost.
Same rulebook page 23 says otherwise.
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Planes don’t land on non-combat. non-com is where they move to an eligible landing location.
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Looks like you are right…
«• A fighter or tactical bomber can land in a sea zone
(even a hostile one) that is adjacent to an industrial
complex you own if you will be mobilizing an aircraft
carrier that you previously purchased in that zone
during the Mobilize New Units phase.»…from the A&A Europe rulebook p.23.
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If I understand you correctly then yes you can build a cv and place it in a SZ containing planes that have expended all their movement points, or even ones that could land elsewhere and they are not lost. You can even plan an attack with planes stating that their movement will end on a newly built CV as to create a means of landing them if I am playing right lol.
yes
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Thanks guys.
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@Sire:
Looks like you are right…
«• A fighter or tactical bomber can land in a sea zone
(even a hostile one) that is adjacent to an industrial
complex you own if you will be mobilizing an aircraft
carrier that you previously purchased in that zone
during the Mobilize New Units phase.»…from the A&A Europe rulebook p.23.
For those who struggled to find this, it’s actually on page 22.
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@Sire:
Looks like you are right…
«• A fighter or tactical bomber can land in a sea zone
(even a hostile one) that is adjacent to an industrial
complex you own if you will be mobilizing an aircraft
carrier that you previously purchased in that zone
during the Mobilize New Units phase.»…from the A&A Europe rulebook p.23.
For those who struggled to find this, it’s actually on page 22.
Ya, under “Where Units Can Move”
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