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The rules are very unclear about this - I am trying to learn the game - I cannot land troops from transports ANYPLACE. What am I doing wrong. Can someone give me the exact sequence for doing an amphib assult.

Thanks in advance
TomW

There are other threads about this, but here's the quick explaination

Step 1: make a chain of transports TO the desired landing spot.
Step 2: you'll need 2 transports in the last space per infantry landing (except Japan)
step 3: find a nearby Infantry who is IN SUPPLY (has a supply truck with or near it) it can even be inland, so long as you can strat-move it to the Transport chain.
Step 4: NOW move the infantry from it's spot to the invasion spot.

It's not like other games where you "load" the Infantry and then "move" to the invasion. The transports act as a conveyer-belt, moving things from here to there without themselves moving. Okie?

I didnt have 2 at the end - I had the chains built !#!#$

Tom W

so, if i have troops in Englad that i want to transport into hostile Western France, i need 2 transports in the channel for every 1 unit i am trying to move into Western France?

Essentially, yes.
Each transport has 3 landing ability, and an Inf costs 5 to land. (ditto Arty & Flak)
So to land (say) 5 Inf you'd need 25 ability or 9 transports. Only in the adjacent zone though, you'd just need 1 per zone to get them there (5 Inf = 25 transport cost, which is 1 normal transport). From England to W.France is just 1 zone, so 9 Transports in either place would do the job.
The Japanese transports have 5 ability to land units

sweetness...going to go home after work and kick some Nazi butt

Yeah, I had a problem with this too. But I RTFM and then it just clicked! The beautiful part about this game is that while it's complex, once you learn something, it's not so overpowering that you forget it.

It's a great PC Boardgame if you ask me.