Q: Airplane convoys cannot capture provinces, correct?

I believe that I have read somewhere that airplane ground convoys cannot capture provinces. So, I could ship aircraft via ground convoys, through neutral territory, without capturing a province and without accidentally starting a war, correct?

I would be grateful if someone who has experience with the particulars could confirm this for me. Cheers.

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I CAN confirm that they cannot capture provs.

I can NOT confirm that marching them into a peaceful prov doesn't start a war; in fact I seem to remember a case where they DID start a war, but I'm not completely sure about that.

Confirmed. I just slid an airplane ground convoy through a neutral (non-allied, no right of way) provincial center, and it did not trigger an automatic state of war.

Interesting trick that may come in handy from time to time.

Now did the convoys happen to meet annother unit along the way? or just unoccupied road?

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i found out the hard way, i was trying to capture a province for a sneak attack, my whole plan depended on that convoy taking the capital, but, luckily i had a back up plan

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VorlonFCW wrote:

Now did the convoys happen to meet another unit along the way? or just unoccupied road?
Unoccupied road. I'm fairly certain that an airplane ground convoy bumping into a non-allied unit on the non-allied unit's territory (without benefit of a right of way) would trigger a war. The convoy would have no right to be there, and the non-allied unit should attack it. In my little experiment, however, I went to great lengths to avoid bumping into anything, so that aspect has not been tested.

injinji wrote:

luckily i had a back up plan
Always. :)

"No plan of operations extends with any certainty beyond the first contact with the main hostile force." -- Helmuth von Moltke (commonly paraphrased as "No plan survives contact with the enemy.")

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