Re: [eia] conquering the Kingdom of the 2 Sicilies

[Michael Gorman <mpgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 01:29 PM 7/11/2003 -0400, you wrote:
> If a secondary district is never given to the conquerer of the primary
> district, if the secondary district is already controlled by another power,
> then must the secondary district _always_ be conquered separately ?  For
> example, when GB declared war on Denmark/Norway, France got control of it.
> When GB occupied Copenhagen for a turn, I was given control of Denmark and
> Norway in the conquest step.  Was this a mistake ?
>
> I took this rule to mean that if the secondary district was already
> controlled by a power _different_ from the power controlling the primary
> district (that is, if the primary and secondary districts are not under the
> same government at the time), then the secondary district does not change
> hands when the primary is conquered.
>
> Otherwise, there would never be a situation when you would get control of
> both districts during the conquest step.  But there are rules in place about
> getting +1 PP _per district_ for conquering minor countries, etc.  So
> clearly the rulemakers intended that you could conquer both districts by
> occupying the primary capital.
>
> I spoke to Kyle last night, and at that time he agreed with me.  Why have
> you changed your position ?
>
> -JJY
        The way things are written it looks like you only take the 
secondary districts with the primary when the minor nation is neutral.  It 
should also be noted that if you control the primary province and a 
secondary goes neutral, you immediately get control of the secondary.

Mike



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