Port of Embarkation

[Hermann the Lombard]

Quick question: if ground units are embarked on a ship in port, what happens if the port is attacked? My assumption is that the units automatically disembark rather than getting "caught" and potentially sunk in the harbor.

[walkern]

I had a similar question: if I have air units in a city and it gets taken, are they just deleted?

[axisworks]

As far as I can tell, the sea and air units just disappear into thin air.

[Solver]

Sea units and air units in cities that are taken just get destroyed.

So if you capture an enemy city, put 20 Bombers there and then lose the city to a counter-attack, it's going to really, really hurt.

[fed1943]

I think Hermann asked a different question(and I don't know the answer):the ship will be sunk by sure,but the ground unities remain they in the harbour to go bottom with the ship or return ground and fight?
Best regards,

[couerdelion]

Why not avoid the risk

Don't leave troops in a boat in a city that is prone to attack. Or is it simply a problem that they already embarked in another city and have to wait a turn to disembark?

[The keeper]

They fight.

[Hermann the Lombard]

Thanks, Keeper. So you say they will disembark and fight, thus possibly preventing me from taking the city and sinking the ship(s). That's what I would expect.

Sounds like it might be better to lure them out to sea where we *know* the ground units can't fight. [Just call your elite units "ballast."]

[The keeper]

I know for a fact that I have had units in a ship help defend the city.