J.J. Young on Sat, 13 Nov 2004 11:08:39 -0600 (CST)


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Re: [eia] British forage rolls, 4/06


This got resent by mistake.  Sorry.

-JJY

----- Original Message -----
From: "J.J. Young" <jjy@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Saturday, November 13, 2004 8:08 AM
Subject: Re: [eia] British forage rolls, 4/06


> Hmm.  I had known that the forage roll for that corps would take place at
> the end of its move, before the next corps moved.  But my mistake came in
> thinking that the forage roll happened before factors were detached into
the
> city.  From what Kyle has said, I see now that I was wrong (it seems
obvious
> now, as usually happens).
>
> What I should have said was:
>
> 1 I:  Bayonne ---> Montpellier (drop 4 I)  (f/ 2-)
>
> 1 I:  Montpellier (pick up 3 or 4 I, depending on whether the previous
corps
> survives its forage roll) ---> W of Zurich
>
> In other words, I should have made the conditional whether or not the
corps
> from Bayonne survived, after rolling forage (it wouldn't have, as it turns
> out).
>
> How about this solution:
> -The corps moved from Bayonne to Montpellier and dropped 4 I.
> -The corps was destroyed by its bad forage roll.
> -I would have preferred to leave a 1 I garrison at Montpellier, but since
my
> orders were in error, the corps from Montpellier follows them anyway,
> picking up all 4 I.
> -The corps mistakenly leaves the city empty and moves away.
>
> Jim, is this solution acceptable ?
>
> -JJY
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kyle H" <menexenus@xxxxxxx>
> To: "public list for an Empires in Arms game" <eia@xxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, November 13, 2004 7:14 AM
> Subject: Re: [eia] British forage rolls, 4/06
>
>
> >     I'm not sure that your conditional garrison detachment strategy is
> > legitimate.  I thought that you had to complete your land orders before
> > rolling supply for a given corps.  That means you would also have to
make
> > choices about how many garrison factors to detach before rolling supply.
> > (If all the factors in the corps are wiped out by a forage roll, then no
> > garrison could be detached.  However, it is possible to leave a
garrison,
> > and then have the rest of the corps wiped out by the forage roll.  It
> seems
> > like that might have been the result of this situation had you left a 1
> inf
> > garrison prior to rolling.)
> >     I might be wrong about this, but I thought that's how we played it
> > before.  In any case, I remember making some hard choices about whether
to
> > leave a garrison in my previous incarnation as France.
> >
> > kdh
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: <jjy@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: "public list for an Empires in Arms game" <eia@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Saturday, November 13, 2004 12:20 AM
> > Subject: Re: [eia] British forage rolls, 4/06
> >
> >
> > > So the corps moving to Montpellier lost 4 factors foraging.  Because
of
> > this,
> > > no factors were dropped off in the city to be picked up by the corps
> > leaving
> > > the area.  The I Naples corps is presently at a strength of 5 I.
> > >
> > > -JJY
> > >
> > >
> > > Quoting Dice server <dicemaster@xxxxxxxxx>:
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