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Rule 24C: Does an Attack on a LC cancel its ability to participate in a SpecOps?

Question:
When planning Allied airborne and amphibious operations “an operation may not be planned for a unit that is in an enemy ZOC at that time. Once an op is planned for a unit, it must be cancelled if the unit is in an enemy ZOC, attacks, or is attacked at any time between the planning and the execution of the operation” (Rule 24C). Since amphibious planning capacity is based on LCs, not ground units, do attacks on LCs cancel operations? Example: an LC has an operation planned for Apr II 44. It moves to disembark cargo at a friendly beach on Apr I 44 and comes under attack by Axis air units. Does this cancel the planned operation (or does the ground unit have to be attacked to cancel the op)?

Answer:
Per Rule 3, a naval unit is not a unit, so no rules referring to units apply to naval units. Each initial phase, you may plan amphibious landings for as many units as you have LCs, as well as for any or all intrinsically amphibious units. Since an LC is not a unit, the rule you quoted does not refer to an LC. As long as the LC is neither sunk nor damaged, it may participate in the invasion.

Source:
TEM 66

Rule 24C: Cancelling parts of a Special Operation

Question:
In planning an airborne operation, such as an eight-regiment drop, may various components of a special operation be postponed or canceled without having to scrap the entire operation?

Answer:
A strict reading of the planning rule reveals that each unit is planned separately and thus can be postponed or canceled by itself.

Source:
TEM67

Rule 24B1: Can a units that has a special OP planned do other moves after having its op cancelled?

Question:
Can a units that has a special OP planned do other moves after having its op cancelled?

Answer:
When a special operation is planned for a unit it allows that unit to participate in special operations; it does not interfere with the unit doing something else, per se. Actions by the unit may cancel its ability to participate in the special operation, but it is not limited to only doing that special operation with regards to actions that do not require pre-planning.

So in all your examples, the fact that the 101st Airborne has a special operation planned for it does not interfere with its ability to be moved by air transport to a friendly owned airbase. Of course, its special operation must be cancelled if it can no longer fulfill the requirements for that rule after the air transport to the newly captured airbase, but this cancellation could take place after it had moved to the airbase; perhaps it is now in a ZoC, or perhaps there are no air transports based there (after staging) to provide air transport for the units.

The important concept to remember is that having a special operation planned for a unit is an enhancement of its abilities; it does not deny the unit the ability to perform any other actions normally allowed. Note that units are not prohibited from performing actions that can cancel the special operation; the special operation is simply cancelled if the unit does these things or if it is no longer able to meet the requirements of the rules regarding planning (Rule 24C).

Source:
TEM 59/60

Planning two special operations for one unit

Question:

A unit has one Amphibious Landing planned for it. Likewise for Air Drops. My question is: Can a unit have one of each? Japanese paratroops can even convert to marines.

Answer:

Planning for amphibious landings (Rule 32C) refers to the rule for planning of air drop operations (rule 24C). That rule says “A unit may only have one operation planned for it at a time” (2nd paragraph, 2nd sentence). Amphibious landings are “similar to” air drops, so it follows that they are also “operations” for the purposes of the rule. So a unit can only have one operation, of one type, assigned to it at any time.

Source:

Posted by Lee Hanna (Glory Rules Judge) on the Yahoo Europa Mailing List on 19.04.2013 20:45.

Rule 24C: Does an Attack on a LC cancel its ability to participate in a SpecOps?

Rule 24C: Cancelling parts of a Special Operation

Rule 24B1: Can a units that has a special OP planned do other moves after having its op cancelled?

Planning two special operations for one unit

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