I have able to play a bit of the European Game over the last week or so, and I am having a good time with it.
I am currently involved in a playtest of Fall Barbarossa, with the Germans jumping in Early in Spring 1941.
I just finished the regular movement/combat, and am well into the Mechanized Movement phase.
Now, I feel I have a good grasp on how the Offensive aircraft work in combination with mechanized movement/combat, being able to move one area from where they participated in the Normal Combat phase, to aid in Mechanized combat. No problem there.
I am reading/playing that a Returned result, either from Air Combat or AA fire, means Done for the Turn. I have been "landing" those aircraft, and inverting them to mark them as Non Operational. I hope this is correct.
My question comes from Defensive aircraft in Mechanized movement.
In the initial attack, I had all my me 109's do airbase attacks on the Russian aircraft spread along the border. Two of those aircraft got off completely unscathed (rolled an 11 and a 12). After the single round of combat, they scooted back to Smolensk.
There was a Bomber and a Fighter already there.
Now, since the Bomber and Fighter previously did not take part in battle, they are available, I assume, to interfere with Guderian's Mechanized Push into Minsk. What about those two fighters that fled their Bases being overrun? They suffered no negative effect from combat (meaning they were not returned or destroyed). Can they participate?
By the way, this is a lot of fun...