@snake11eyes:
@knp7765:
Also, sinking an enemy transport counts as a sea battle for purposes of shore bombardment. So if you are invading and your fleet includes a battleship or cruiser and there is an enemy transport there, if you decide to sink it, then you can’t use your shore bombardment.
OR, you could simply ignore the transport and use your shore bombardment with the invasion. Then the transport will simply sit there among your invasion fleet and your enemy can move it away during his/her combat move.
Are you positive about this? I thought I remember reading that a transport does not negate the bombardment, maybe only for the one ship that attacks it? So for instance if you have 3 cruisers and one attakcs the transport the other two would still get their bombardment?
No. This is what the rules say:
@rulebook:
Amphibious Assault Sequence
1. Sea combat
2. Battleship and cruiser bombardment
3. Land combat
Step 1. Sea Combat
If there are defending surface warships and/or scrambled air units, sea combat occurs. If there are only defending submarines and/or transports, the attacker can choose to ignore those units or conduct sea combat. If sea combat occurs, all attacking and defending sea units present must participate in the battle. (Even if the attacker chose to ignore defending submarines and/or transports, they will still be involved in the battle if the defender scrambles air units and forces a sea battle.) Conduct the sea combat using the rules for General Combat (below), then go to step 3 (land combat). If no sea combat occurs, go to step 2 (bombardment).
Step 2. Battleship and Cruiser Bombardment
If there was NOT a combat in the sea zone from which you are offloading units from transports, any accompanying battleships and cruisers in that sea zone can conduct a one-time bombardment of one coastal territory or island group being attacked.
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