Cannot air rebase in malta?

[Dren608]

Sal doesn't the definition of Supply require you be "able" to trace supply?
That would require a Convoy that would be used to have at least on unused Sortie. Otherwise it can not be used for supply.
My other FTF and Vassal games we have always played that way.
The Rules indicate a valid supply route so a Convoy with 6 sorties couldn't be considered a Valid supply route could it?

The intent of the rule is a supply line path is able to be traced (e.g. the UK cannot move an air unit to Malta if both ends of the Med are cut off). A convoy needs to be present, but its number of sorties does not matter. It's what I was hoping to get across by the rule stating "the convoy used is not activated". Since there is no activation, there is no need to have an unused Sortie.

You still would not Activate the Convoy so it's sortie count would stay the same. My understanding was that you had to be "able to" supply the AC. This would have made a difference in a couple of situations, one was where I could have shuttled AC in an out of Palermo (it had a convoy run up to 6 sorties trying to prevent my land forces from getting supply this turn) to allow me to negate the Axis Air and then launch an attack (before I had to check supply) and possibly Capture the other port in Sicily. Since we thought you had to "be able" to supply the AC upon landing (not that you actually do) we thought I couldn't do that.
Again You know me I always seem to be getting what seem to be Edge Cases.