From: "Richard DEVEREUX" <rd@pagan-47.fsnet.co.uk>
RD: Rulebook, he say (p52): since warships are designed to protect transports, they will normally be destroyed before any damage occurs to the transports.
*** Normally doesn't mean 100%, as usual. 10 war and 10 transports go into combat, lose 7 war and 3 transports is acceptable, no?
Brad
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*** Normally doesn't mean 100%, as usual. 10 war and 10 transports
go into combat, lose 7 war and 3 transports is acceptable, no?
In theory, yes, but I've never seen it happen. I have never seen a
single transport sunk before all the warships went down. I have also
had the experience of having a navy with very few troops lose some
transports, but no troops. I am confident that you only lose troops
when you have lost so many transports you can't carry them all.
Apparently the empty transports try to protect the full ones.
Mark
Sounds like we need to start using those torpedo's with a deeper
depth setting to get under the empty transports and bag the full
ones 
--- In mepbmlist@yahoogroups.com, "Mark Jaede" <taurnil@y...> wrote:
had the experience of having a navy with very few troops lose some
transports, but no troops. I am confident that you only lose troops
when you have lost so many transports you can't carry them all.
Apparently the empty transports try to protect the full ones.Mark
Thanks for the help all, I will be able to reassure an ally.
Laurence G. Tilley
http://www.lgtilley.freeserve.co.uk
At 23:02 05/09/2003, Mark Jaede wrote:
I am confident that you only lose troops
when you have lost so many transports you can't carry them all.
Apparently the empty transports try to protect the full ones.