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Can I do an amphibious assault with only a enemy transport in the sea zone

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Leonmooi
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So the situation is that I want to do an amphibious assault without support with only a solo transportship. The seazone is occupied with a enemy transport. Do they have to engage before the disembark/landing or not?
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An enemy transport does not make the seazone hostile. So you can ignore it and unload.

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The reason that it can’t offload more than once is that if it did so during combat movement it would be involved, though indirectly, in multiple combats. This would require complicated rules, as there would be cases where it could be done and cases where it could not be done. Transport movement is already complicated enough without adding more exceptions, so it was decided that a transport’s movement would end once it offloads, period, no exceptions. It was felt that any flexibility added by allowing multiple offloads wasn’t worth adding more complication to transport rules.
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@Simon98v:

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If I interpreted this correctly, a seazone containing both submarines AND transports blocks the movement of sea units. This doesn�t make any sense.

Do submarines have the ability to protect allied transports? (obviously not from air units)

Can you ignore making an attack on a seazone containing transports and submarines to make a seashore bombardment?

Don’t forget:

@rulebook:

An enemy submarine and/or transport does not block any of your units’ movement, nor does it prevent loading or offloading
in that sea zone (with one exception - see Special Combat Movement: Transports, pg. 13). As the moving player, you have the
option of attacking an enemy submarine and/or transport that shares a sea zone with you. However, if a warship chooses to sink
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They may also put in affect of the amount of water distance in a sea zone where subs are not around.

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Declare all combats, unit buy is sealed and cannot be changed after we begin to do;
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lots of teams only have 1-2 combats to declare per turn so focusing on doing all your combats first (and ignoring units that will noncom) is also an easy way to keep your mind focused on one task at a time; things that fight get committed first and everything else can be contemplated at length after combats are resolved.
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@CWO:

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