Sup gang,
Had our regular Saturday A&A game. We had a rules meeting about scrambles vs subs and transports…and couldn’t come to a consensus.
Japan built an airfield in Kwangsi to protect ships sitting in SZ36. Japan then left 3 transports and a destroyer sitting in that sea zone, with planes for scrambling. UK sent 2 subs into the zone and attacked. Japan scrambled 3 fighters, and we went to the battle.
1 hit for UK sub.
1 plane hit for Japan (normal for this game - bad rolls all over the board).
UK loses a sub, Japan loses the destroyer.
Transports are then dead in the next round of combat, correct? My understanding is a “yes”. Planes cannot hit subs without a destroyer, transports cannot defend, subs cannot attack planes.
It was then brought up, that the planes are still actively defending the transports, and the subs have to make individual rolls on each transport to destroy it. Meaning, Japan gets to attack with the planes if the sub misses its shot. ???
This is where it turned into a back & forth about the whole ruling. It was brought up that this was talked about here a long time ago and it was ruled correct, the sub would have to fire for each transport. Can I get some thoughts?