The carrier is simply something to help give your fleet a backbone and protects everything in 112 and means you don’t have to land a t bomber in Holland (from Germany). It protects your transports if you are threatening sea lion and can be used to protect sea units at Gibraltar or 127 (Archangel). If you can get it to the Mediterranean Sea it can really help Italy too. The only con is that it does virtually nothing against Russia.
So basically, do you think being in 112 is useful? Do you like to threaten (not take) Sea Lion to help Itake? Do you like hoping Italy in the Med? Do you like taking Gibraltar? Maybe getting South Africa every ten games? Do you like feigning Sea Lion then hitting Leningrad? If you answered yes to any of these, a carrier can be useful.
Resupplying carrier during movement phase?
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Hi,
Maybe a dumb question but me and my friends were playing today and we had an argument whether or not you were allowed to resupply your carriers with fighters in the non combat movement phase with fighters from other territories, if the carrier has lost its aircraft during a battle in the combat phase?
I argue that you can but they argue teh carrier have already been designated as landing spots for the fighters that died during the combat phase and that you cannot land aircraft in a zone you did not control from the beginning of the turn (including sea zone)
I have looked in the rule book and cannot find why you should not be able to land on empty carriers during the movement phase, since territory control as I understand it is only considering land and during movement phase you should be able to land if there is an eligible spot to land when you complete the movement phase.
Thanks, Ruckus
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Hi,
Maybe a dumb question but me and my friends were playing today and we had an argument whether or not you were allowed to resupply your carriers with fighters in the non combat movement phase with fighters from other territories, if the carrier has lost its aircraft during a battle in the combat phase?
I argue that you can but they argue teh carrier have already been designated as landing spots for the fighters that died during the combat phase and that you cannot land aircraft in a zone you did not control from the beginning of the turn (including sea zone)
I have looked in the rule book and cannot find why you should not be able to land on empty carriers during the movement phase, since territory control as I understand it is only considering land and during movement phase you should be able to land if there is an eligible spot to land when you complete the movement phase.
Thanks, Ruckus
The answer is yes you can move fighters to a carrier with a open slot if it just lost or moved the fighters in combat. As long as the fighter can legally move and can reach the spot where the carrier is, it’s legal.
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Thanks!
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Yes, this usually get abused by the Allies since they have more aircraft and more carriers to move around, sometimes I will let US carriers just carry a single plane so ANZAC and UK can launch raids on weak targets to have a place to land.
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@Caesar:
Yes, this usually get abused by the Allies since they have more aircraft and more carriers to move around, sometimes I will let US carriers just carry a single plane so ANZAC and UK can launch raids on weak targets to have a place to land.
Or worst, have 1 anzac, Uk plane on a US carrier, carrier moves 2 spaces in non combat plane can safely attack 4 spaces away.
You really sure those transports are safe because of your blockers?Carriers are awesome like that, it’s one the reason why I build the Graf Zeppelin on G1 just encase I sent the Kreigsmarine to back up the Italians.