Japan is disappointed. I am annoyed with the rule book.
Japan had planned since the beginning of the game to use a Japanese ATRto reorganize units in the Lanchow area. I checked the rules to see if there was any restrictions on using a flying boat to reorganize units on land, and there was not, so it was decided to build the ATR4 since it was more versatile than the regular ATR3. Now that the ATR4 arrived, and there was a fighter ready to escort, the air resupply was attempted. And it was forbidden because it was a flying boat. Really annoyed I was about to place a bug report. But decided to make a really thorough rule search first, and found the offending paragraph burried in the stacking rules. In the stacking rules! Bah!
Why flying boats should be forbidden to drop supplies in a hex it can not land in, but normal aircraft may do so in a hex it may not land in eludes me. But that is not the point. Had we known about this restriction Japan would have built the cheaper, faster arriving, ATR3 instead.
Cut from RAC:
11.18.1 Air supply
An air supply mission allows you to organize a unit in
any land hex by flying an ATR to that hex.
Option 35: Any aircraft with a white range circle can fly an air supply mission, even if it is not an ATR.
Cut from RAC:
2.3 Stacking
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Flying boats can fly missions into, or rail move through, non-coastal hexes. Engineers (MiF option 7) do not effect stacking limits for flying boats. ATR flying boats (e.g. the BV-222) can only air transport units to or from,
or air supply units in, coastal hexes.
I supposed both disappointed and annoyed is a slight understatement.

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