Amphibious assaults can be done in two steps, consisting of a sea battle and a land battle. In your example, both the cruiser and the transport would attack the destroyer. If the attackers win, the transport can offload and the land battle will occur. If the transport ends up retreating (or being sunk), the land battle will not occur and the transport may not offload.
In-Game question- pls help: Hostile sea zone retreat rules
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Can the ships in the hostile zone retreat into different sea zones each?? ie one ship to zone A another into zone B
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Page 19 of the manual:
Under Attacker Retreats:
Attacker can retreat… Move all attacking land and sea units in that combat to a single adjacent friendly space from which at least one of the attacking units moved. In the case of sea units, that space must have been friendly at the start of the turn. All such units must retreat together to the same territory, regardless of where they came from. -
thats what we ended up after lots of arguing. Sad that we didnt notice that para.
Thank you





