Re: [eia] allow me to muddy the waters even more

["Kyle H" <menexenus@xxxxxxx>]

    After talking to JJ in person today, I finally elicited from him the
motivation for his suggestion.  Remember the odd results we could have had
with repatriation at the end of the Coalition War against Russia?  If we
hadn't made a side deal to take care of it, the British forces would have
had to repatriate to the northern-most space in Norway (near the Arctic
Circle).
    I see 2 possibilities here.  One is that we could give the power being
repatriated the option of being repatriated to the closest space in *allied*
territory.  (This is basically what we did after the Coalition War against
Russia - we repatriated JJ's forces to Spanish controlled Finland rather
than to British controlled Norway.)  Another possibility is that we could
stipulate that the space to which forces are repatriated can be no more than
2 spaces from a city.
    These are just 2 ideas off the top of my head.  Maybe someone else will
come up with a better one.  But in any case, I think this problem should
have a fairly easy solution once we put our minds to it.

kdh

----- Original Message -----
From: "J.J. Young" <jjy@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "public list for an Empires in Arms game" <eia@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 3:44 PM
Subject: Re: [eia] allow me to muddy the waters even more


> You've got it backwards.  I am suggesting that France should have _more_
of
> a say in where their forces could be repatriated to, not that Spain should
> have a say; in other words, they wouldn't neccessarily have to go to the
> closest French-controlled areas, but perhaps could be placed somewhere
else
> along the border between French and Spanish territory.  This would allow
us
> to sidestep some ridiculous outcomes of repatriation.
>
> But as I said, I haven't thought this through completely yet, for instance
> how to apply it to cases where the territories of the two former enemies
do
> not actually touch.  Does anyone think this is a worthwhile avenue to
pursue
> for a compromise solution ?
>
> -JJY
>

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