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If a territory is captured, any antiaircraft guns there are also captured. They can be used by the capturing player in future combats.
To further complicate the matter, if you liberate a Russian AA Gun and Russia is owned by Moscow, do you make it Russian or the new owner, under Mazer’s reading of the OOB rules?
Well, then, let’s look at LHTR, which is the rules standard for this site:
Usable by Invading Forces: If a territory is captured, any antiaircraft guns there are also captured. Their new owner is the player owning the territory at the end of this turn. They can be used by their new owner in future combats. Antiaircraft guns are never destroyed, except when a transport carrying one is sunk.
No mention of restoration to original owner is made in the LHTR version, probably because they decided that the original rule was too ambiguous since it contradicted itself in the same paragraph, so they did away with the contradiction. (Another good reason to burn the manual that came with the box and just print the LHTR version.)
This appears on LHTR ver 2.0 Page 24
@Mazer:
Page 25:
If you liberate a territory containing a captured antiaircraft gun, control reverts to the original owner.
Please check the rules before posting!
Bean got it right.
Please check the rules before posting!
Bean got it wrong.