[eia] rules question

[Joel Uckelman <uckelman@xxxxxxxxx>]

Rule 6.2.1.3 states:

"A fleet may not enter the Dardanelles sea area unless that major power 
controls an unbesieged Constantinople, besieges Constantinople, or has 
access from the major power controlling Constantinople."

In the event that I hold a besieged Constantinople, I would meet neither of 
the first two conditions. As for the third condition, access usually refers 
to permissions granted other powers, not a power's own ability to move 
freely through it's own territory; interpreted in that way, a Turkish fleet 
at a besieged Constantinople could get no farther than it's blockade box, 
since the blockade box is entirely within the Dardanelles sea zone.

But Constantinople (the actual city) is on the end of a peninsula, and has 
only one landward side. Besiegers without naval support would have no way 
of preventing a fleet from leaving. Additionally, if the besiegers didn't 
also control some point on the Dardanelles or the opposing side of the 
Bosporus, they should be unable to prevent passage of ships.

How this rule is interpreted will impact my naval placements, so I need to 
know how we're going to call this one before I decide.


-- 
J.