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The DD ran into the sub, and that is what the game calls a surprise contact.
Surprised Units – are those that bump into
previously unseen enemy units during their
movement. They can defend themselves but any
remaining APs will be automatically lost
6.2.5. Surprise Contact
Fog of war provides a special combat feature that
occurs when a unit moves adjacent to a hidden
enemy unit. A message denoting Enemy Contact!
will appear when this happens. These encounters
will only result in combat if it favors the hidden
unit; otherwise, the moving unit may still attack
normally.
If the contact results in combat, then the hidden
unit (which counts as the attacker) has its readiness
increased by 25% for the combat calculation.
Additionally, the hidden unit’s combat losses will be
25% less and the moving unit’s combat losses 25%
more than they would otherwise have been.
When a surprise contact occurs at sea, the
enemy contact adjustment for the attacker only
applies when calculating attacker losses and does
not apply when calculating defender losses. For
example, if a Battleship is moving and there is
enemy contact with a Sub, the Sub becomes the
attacker. The Sub will still take 25% less damage
when calculating its losses but it will not inflict 25%
more damage on the Battleship. An encounter at
sea still favors the hidden unit, but the impact is
reduced.
Special surprise encounter effects apply to
Paratroops. For Paratroops landing on a previously
hidden enemy unit, only the Paratroops will take
losses from the surprise encounter and then
they will attempt to land in an empty adjacent
hex. If successful, the Paratroops can land and
hex. If successful, the Paratroops can land and
fight normally; otherwise, but if there is no
empty adjacent hex then they are shattered and
destroyed. If Paratroops land adjacent to a hidden
enemy unit, there is no surprise encounter and
the unit can fight normally. In other words, the
advantage in this case goes to the Paratroops.
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RE: How the Axis could have won. Allied AAR RTW - 
. I need to be more inventive in my searching. I assumed this would be covered under combat - not movement 
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