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    Attack from which sea zone(s) or land zone does the fort in British Malaya protect? It reads, but just confirming, as it protects against all the sea and land zones, so Siam, SZ88 and SZ122.

    Do fortifications provide the same protection against airborne assaults or just land or amphibious?


  • @sjelso 12.8 Special Fortification Zones:
    Some areas on the map are so small that a single Fortification and/or Coastal Artillery protects the entire zone regardless of how many land or sea zones they border. These areas are:
    …(e) British Malaya

    Your second question is an interesting one. You could use an airborne assault on normal fortifications that are protecting only a single border (not like the special fortification zones, above), to aerially cross a non-fortified border and avoid the fortification bonii. However, if even a single unit attacked across that fortified border, then you would trigger the clause in 12.7, “…protect from attacks across that border.” If there is an attack across that border, then fortifications provide two first strikes at 5 and add+2 Defense to all defending land units on round one of combat. There is no specifier on the word combat. It isn’t round one of amphibious combat or airborne assaults. It is “round one of combat.” Because special fortification zones protect all land and sea zones, there is no way to avoid facing fortified defenders.


  • @hbg-gw-enthusiast The fortifications are more that just a solid wall. Any unit no matter how it attacks is subject to the fort rules if it crosses that border. In the case of Malaya, that includes all borders as you rightly pointed out.


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