Two Questions:
Question #1
-2 british infantry are loaded on an American Transport.
-An american cruiser and the transport move to Sz 125.
-A german sub is present in Sz 125; and ignored on the american turn.
-The British forces want to assault Norway on their turn.
Does the sub block the amphibious assault or not?
This is an interesting question; I do know that if Norway had an Airbase, Germany could scramble a fighter over Sz125 and this would stop the combat without casualties; because the ships aren’t British and therefore cannot be attacking.
It’s very clear in the rulebook that you can’t attack with multinational forces. If the british were using their own transport and moved to sz 125, they would be blocked, and certainly could not rely on the american cruiser for escort.
My interpretation is that the amphibious assualt is stopped by the sub because there is no valid escort.
Question #2
-America has a carrier, cruiser, and loaded transport sitting in Sz 125.
-America unloads its infantry in an amphibious assault on Norway, and uses a bombard
-In Non Combat the Americans want to move the carrier out.
PART #1: Can the carrier move out in NCM or not?
This type of situation commonly occurs with large/medium fleets. Some obscure territory is taken at a location where the ships have started; but truthfully you plan to move somewhere else in NCM. Maybe that somewhere else happens to be blocked and you will clear the path in combat.
The rulebook is half clear. It states that all combat moves must end in combat on Page #13
Sea units that will be participating in an amphibious
assault from a friendly sea zone, as well as sea and/or
air units that may be needed to support it in the case that
defending air units are scrambled (see �Scramble,� page16).
My interpretation of that is scramble or no scramble, or even no airbase, I can move whatever I want in the combat phase to a friendly seazone to support that invasion.
NOW FOR THE HUGE TWIST
Where the rulebook is NOT clear. PART #2: Can the carrier move out in the combat phase? to a friendly SZ? it’s starting in a friendly seazone, so it doesn’t meet the “exception” requirements that state it can only move to “escape combat”; because there is no combat to escape. So according to the rulebook the carrier can’t move in the Combat phase. And according to the above interpretation, if you have amphibiously assaulted a territory from a friendly SeaZone, that means your ships have “moved” during the combat phase.
PART #3: Does this mean that an amphibious assault on a territory adjacent to a friendly sea zone where your navy already is; means your entire navy can’t move in Combat or Non Combat?
I think the answer has massive implications for live and online play.