Re: [eia] Round 3, Mantua retreat question...

["James Helle" <jhelle@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm not so sure I agree with Joel about this.

If a corps that had used unused MP to forage retreats into an active siege
that shouldn't cause the siege to end.  The foraging had already taken place
before the retreat!  And in a totally different land area!  I disagree that
this should affect another corps ability to besiege.

This is backed up by the wording in 7.5.4: "A phasing force that just
attacked and won a field or trivial combat in an area may then besiege an
enemy city in that area if all corps *in the phasing force* used depot
supply and / or did not use unused MP to modify a foraging roll".

The key here, IMO, is that a retreating force is not a phasing force.  A
phasing force is one using MPs to change it's location during it's land
phase order.  A retreat is an entirely different form of movement.

-----Original Message-----
From: eia-bounces@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:eia-bounces@xxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of
Joel Uckelman
Sent: Friday, August 11, 2006 11:58 AM
To: public list for an Empires in Arms game
Subject: Re: [eia] Round 3, Mantua retreat question...


Thus spake "Bill Jaffe":
> Interesting question about the retreat, I certainly don't know the answer.
> How about this, the mountain hex north of Mantua (and sw of Salzburg),
also
> is 1 hex away from a depot, retreat the army there, and the issue of
unused
> movement doesn't occur.

I reread the rules on this and it does look like having a force which used
MP
to forage retreat into your siege does prevent you from besieging for that
month. That had not occurred to me before as something that could happen.

--
J.
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