@Gargantua:
The transport has no attack or defend value therefore it may not attack
INCORRECT.
Let’s begin with the basic principles here. � Just because something HAS NO ATTACK VALUE - does not mean it cannot attack.
Transports and Aircraft carriers, can participate in attacks, with NO special rules requiring them to be escorted.
In fact, you attack with these units all the time. � And just because an attack is insane, or doomed to fail, that doesn’t mean you can’t do it. � If you want, you can send 1 infantry at a stack of 200 infantry.
There’s just not usually a logical reason to do this - Ever; other than the example I expressed.
It can move into the sea zone that those enemy ships are in, but it can NOT attack them. � It would just sit there until the enemy turn in which they can ignore it, leave the seazone, or sink it.
Point of fact… what you’ve described here is completely illegal. � I can’t send my Aircraft Carrier, in com or non com movement, to an enemy occupied seazone, and just sit there. � If I do, that would have to be an attack, and the enemy would just roll dice at it until my unit dies, so long as I’m willing to push my units to their death.
The other “Technical” possibility for this example. � Is if you want to steal one of your belligerent buddies aircraft, and keep it on your aircraft carrier. � Attack with a loaded acc, � take one hit, and retreat to a friendly sz, thereby preventing your ally from removing his fighters from your acc, until you’ve repaired it on your next turn, and it’s too far away from anything for his pieces to go anywhere! :D
I could be wrong, but I thought it had been clarified that you cannot send ONLY units with no attack value into a hostile zone, because they CANNOT win.
Attacks doomed to fail are different than attacks that CANNOT win.
You cannot, for example, send a carrier alone on a suicide mission to open up the options for aircraft to go on suicide missions, because the carrier has absolutely no way to win alone.
So I believe it follows, and has been written, than you cannot do bogus attacks with units that cannot attack. You need at least one unit capable of scoring a hit, however unlikely a win will be.
Thus, you cannot attack a sub with aircraft and a carrier - the attacker has NO way to score a hit, so it appears to be an illegal combat move as far as I am aware, even if the defender could choose to fire back. Besides, if the sub is alone, you can just noncom over it, so I don’t see why anyone would ever perform this move.