It doesn’t matter if the land unit survives to retreat or not. Just its having moved into the territory establishes the retreat path.
What happens when you kill an AC that carried Ftrs and retreat?
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Eg. assume you hit the sub and the AC at Pearl harbour, and you abort the attack. Does the US fighter get splashed, or can it move to land somewhere safely? I’m looking through the LHTR rules and the FAQ and can’t seem to see any explanation… Ah, found it, I’ll post it here in case anyone has the same question.
LHTR 1.3, p. 19 - “A fighter based on a defending carrier that is destroyed in combat must try to land. It must move 1 space to friendly territory or be destroyed.”
So the US Ftr could then land on Hawaii and move as normal on the US turn.
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The FIG in this case can land at Hawaii (1 space).
If however, on a Pearl Counter, Japan loses their AC, leaving FIGs flying, and USA retreats, there is no place to land in range, the FIGs go SPLASH!
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@ncscswitch:
If however, on a Pearl Counter, Japan loses their AC, leaving FIGs flying, and USA retreats, there is no place to land in range, the FIGs go SPLASH!
no what are you talking about? they just tie the fighters together a make a big raft and sail into battle. :lol:
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Can defenders retreat? I was under the impression they cannot
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Defenders cannot retreat, but if Japan attacks Pearl and withdraws from battle, leaving a fighter without a carrier to land on, it may land in Hawaii (or for arguement’s sake a carrier within one space of it as well.)
However, if there is no place to land within one space, then undestroyed defending fighters splash into the ocean forever lost to the world.
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Defenders cannot retreat, but if Japan attacks Pearl and withdraws from battle, leaving a fighter without a carrier to land on, it may land in Hawaii (or for arguement’s sake a carrier within one space of it as well.)
However, if there is no place to land within one space, then undestroyed defending fighters splash into the ocean forever lost to the world.
yep.
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@ncscswitch:
The FIG in this case can land at Hawaii (1 space).
If however, on a Pearl Counter, Japan loses their AC, leaving FIGs flying, and USA retreats, there is no place to land in range, the FIGs go SPLASH!
Or land on Hawaii, captured on the initial attack… :-D
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@ncscswitch:
The FIG in this case can land at Hawaii (1 space).
If however, on a Pearl Counter, Japan loses their AC, leaving FIGs flying, and USA retreats, there is no place to land in range, the FIGs go SPLASH!
Or land on Hawaii, captured on the initial attack… :-D
OR on the carrier nearby that you moved there to house those fighters because you had a forsight that the enemy would do something like this :D
I don’t think japan gets to move in a carrier from another sea zone…It’s USA’s turn
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He meant on the prior turn as a back-up just in case…
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He meant on the prior turn as a back-up just in case…
he wasn’t clear on the WHEN part of the a/c movement
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