Moving through canels question

@Gargantua: The rulebook is half clear.  It states that all combat moves must end in combat on Page #13 Sea units that will be participating in an amphibious assault from a friendly sea zone, as well as sea and/or air units that may be needed to support it in the case that defending air units are scrambled (see �Scramble,� page16). My interpretation of that is scramble or no scramble, or even no airbase, I can move whatever I want in the combat phase to a friendly seazone to support that invasion. Your interpretation is incorrect.  You may only move units that will participate in or support the amphibious assault into a friendly sea zone.  Air and sea units that will participate in the assault include transports offloading land units, battleships and/or cruisers bombarding, and possibly a warship to escort the transports (if needed because of an enemy sub that will be ignored - bombarding battleships and/or cruisers can fulfill this role).  Supporting units can include any type of air or sea unit desired, but can only be moved there if necessary due to the possibility of a defending scramble - there being both an operative enemy air base and eligible air units present. As others have pointed out, the same criteria apply when determining whether units beginning the turn in the sea zone may move out of it during combat movement.  Such units restricted from moving out in noncombat movement are those that were actually involved in combat and transports that offloaded.

the rules ensure that the TTs cant really do double duty that way (you can use them twice but its not faster) though it is fun to imagine bringing along an extra transport during the US cross to load up those brave, brave, no-combined arms Frenchies from North Africa.  Or brits.  The rules just make it too choppy to implement very well. A much better exploit is flying into the attack with fighters u moved 4 landing them planes on an allied carrier, then it moves 3 then it gets attacked, you help defend, it blows up, you move 1 more you moved 8 spaces with a fighter and fought twice in 1 turn lol

@Dijitz: So no’s would be kept track of via web board? Alpha+.2 is still only in the Alpha stage (see Alpha vs Beta w/Google). With changes quickly happening, the people who work on this will let a final tested ruleset come out first, then complete ABattleMap. Until then, help to test Alpha+.2 and join all the controversy that there is. 

You are right.  You cannot have fully loaded transports.  However, you can have 5 or 6 transports sitting on the coast with all the troops and tanks and artillery and mech inf just waiting.  It makes the Germans keep an eye on the US and slam everything into USSR or UK.  It is a great deterrent.

Zallomallo is right.  Because the sub submerged, it no longer blocks the amphibious assault and cannot kill the transport.  There was no reason for the sub to submerge, however, as the planes could no longer hit it.  If the sub did not submerge, the transport could retreat, assuming it had somewhere to retreat to (if not, it would be lost).

Good post axis dominion!

It goes to the European economy.

You have your choice of a PhD or a headache.  Take the headache.