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Playing Global campaign using the 1.08.3 patch in solitaire mode.

I am at the end of turn 1 and returning to base CW ships out at sea. One group of CW ships located in the Italian Coast sea zone I cannot return to any CW port. I tried as a group, I tried individually and none of them will go to port. I was able to return all other CW ships through out the globe to near ports, just not this fleet.

EDIT: To add onto this. I was able to move some of the faster ships to Gibraltar but the slower ones are stuck in that Italian sea zone. I think the issue here is I have a Yugoslavian naval unit that I had aligned with France move into Malta while the British fleet was out to sea. Now that it is time to go back, they can't.

So what do you do in this situation? Should that French aligned Yugo unit be allowed to go to a CW base in the early part of the war when the French and British aren't allowed to cooperate?

Here is my savegame.

By the rules it is legal for a French-aligned Yugo unit to go to any CW territory - which is what Malta is.

One way to fix this would be to have the CW ships, that can only RTB to Malta, stay at sea instead. They then slide down a box and are not destroyed because from their new box, they are not out of range of a port.

But maybe they were already designated to RTB, in which case (by the rules and without mulligans) they die.

That's what I ended up doing was keeping them at sea for a turn. Just seems odd that the one Yugo ship prevents the Brits from using their own port.

Given the way the rules work, it would have been better to have the Yugos bunk with the French.