Re: [eia] FW: Dice server automated response

[Michael Gorman <mpgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 09:33 PM 8/19/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>     I have no problem announcing when there are corps present that contain
> 20+ factors.  As you say, I assumed that it was obvious that with 69 factors
> in 3 corps, at least 2 of my corps would have to contain 20+ factors (and it
> didn't really matter whether the third did or did not, since the
> consequences would be the same).
>     I guess there is a question as to whether the declaration has to come at
> the beginning of the battle or whether it need only be revealed at the end.
> Since I (inadvertantly) only revealed at the end of the battle that I had
> corps in excess of 20 factors, we could say that that set precedent, and
> that a side need only announce these facts at the end of a battle, if it
> matters.  (After all, if France had won the battle, then the fact that the
> French side contained corps with 20+ factors would have been irrelevant.  It
> was only relevant because France was the loser.)
>
>     So my recommendation is that we set the policy that a side only needs to
> reveal whether it started the battle with corps of size 20+ at the *end* of
> the battle, and then only if it matters.  (Since it only matters in the
> assignment of political points, only the loser of a battle would ever have
> to make such a declaration.)
>     But if others disagree, it's really not a big deal as far as I'm
> concerned.  If people prefer both sides declaring at the beginning of a
> battle, I'm happy to do that as well.
>
> kdh
Since you can freely reassign factors in the reinforcement phase, I hardly 
think it matters if it doesn't turn out to be relevant to the battle.  It 
could also matter in outflanking maneuvers but the size of any corps sent 
on the flanking force matters then.

Mike



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