Ship Support in Alliance

By xsmeonline, in A Game of Thrones: The Board Game

If i am in verbal alliance with another house. is it permissible to let the other house use my ships to transport thier unit to go on another land if i have a support token on my ships .

eg : if I am lannister and verbal alliance with stark. stark has a ship in Bay of ice and I have a ship in sunset sea with a support token on it. can stark be allowed to march his units from winterfell to searoad marches using both the ships to travel (one his ship and one my ship)

No, a verbal alliance with another player is just that: a verbal alliance. They must still treat all of your units as enemies.

Also, the order token on a ship has no effect on whether it can be used for ship transport.

What I do when playing is align with someone and ask them if they will let me take the waters behind them so I can pass them on the map. Then when the time is right, I back door them for my final castle/stornghold, if possible. Betrayal is key to the game. Watch your back. sonreir

Thanks for your reply. me and my friends always fight over this and there is nothing official about this rule. and what you said makes sense. thanks once again

I do not see anything wrong with players in alliance using "friendly" ships for transport… there is no rule against it…

There actually is a rule specifically against it in the Ship Transport section on page 23. "a player may never use ships of another House as transports, even if given permission by that House."

In general, the argument of "there is no rule against it" is not enough to mean something is allowed. For example there is no rule against raiding your opponent's march orders. Instead there are specific rules stating what you can raid: adjacent enemy raid, support, or consolidate power orders, or adjacent enemy defense orders if using the special raid.

I think that the most "alliance-like" action you could do would be to agree to place a "useless" consolidate power order in one ship so it can be raided by its ally, basically netting a 1 Power token transfer between allies…

Thank u so much