Transport loading and offloading

Bridging works just the same as any other transport move. The only difference is that the transports do not leave the seazone. So for transports in a turn you can on either the combat or non-combat movement phase: A) all units are from the same power: Optional: move your transport load 1 or 2 units (out which at least 1 is an INF) from 1 or more adjacent land areas in a friendly SZ Optional: move your transport Optional: in case in step 2 you loaded only 1 unit, load a second unit (again if you have 2 units at least 1 needs to be an INF) in a friendly SZ Optional: move your transport (end in friendly SZ) Optional: unload units into 1 hostile area (amphibious assault) or 1 friendly area (non-combat reinforcement). Note in all the movements the transport can not exceed the maximum number of movements it has (so standard 2, when departing from a friendly harbor 3). Note the transport movement is completely optional so bridging occurs when you don’t move the transports at all. You can only use a transport once per turn, so you can’t do an amphibious landing and in the same turn reinforce the land area using the same transport. Obviously you can reinforce it using a different transport. B) When the transport belongs to a different power: On your turn load the units into the transport _Optional_On the other powers turn move the transport On your next turn unload into an area. Note you will always have to wait one turn when loading and unloading using a different powers transports. So even when the transports don’t move you can not load and unload on the same turn using a different powers transports.

Thanks for the explained clarification Wild Bill, it helped! BH

Noncombat unloading is not blocked and does not require an escort.

@Eqqman: @P@nther: No, that is not correct: @Europe: Transports can move to friendly coastal territories and load or offload cargo, unless they loaded, moved, offloaded, or were involved in combat during the Combat Move or Conduct Combat phase. Hmm, well, if that is the real intent of the rule, they should have said OR load/offload cargo, since by saying AND they are only prohibiting offloading when the ship tries to move and offload together. @Europe: Whenever a transport offloads, it can’t move again that turn If a transport retreats, it cant offload that turn does that help?

Triple A illustrates the transport issue pretty well by having you ‘roll’ for a hit on even an unprotected transport. Or… it helps to remember a scenario where a larger naval battle is going on and the defenders have 2 or more transports. If the attackers hit enough to kill all defenders and have +1 hit it gets assigned to a transport even if the defenders return enough hits to kill all the attackers so an attacker might kill some but not all transports.

@Caesar: But doesn’t that also mean that because you share a sea zone with your enemy, you are required to engage them unless you leave it? Sort of true. Just that you are able to load units before leaving it. So the exception is of no use if you want to land on a territory which you already own.

Exactly.  If the enemy units are all destroyed in the Conduct Combat phase, the sea zone will be friendly in the Noncombat Move phase.

I think the rule changed to give more power to destroyers as sub hunters.