Re: [eia] France's land phase orders

[Michael Gorman <mpgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 11:14 PM 7/7/02 -0400, you wrote:
> I have one question about Mike's interpretation of the depot garrison rules.
> If the depot garrison and the city garrison are in different locations zero
> movement apart, then why does the depot garrison have to be a part of the
> city's capacity ?  Using the example of Constantinople, why couldn't you
> have a city garrison of 25, with up to 10 additional factors garrisoning the
> depot in the area outside the city ?  Of course, if the city is already
> full, this takes away the option of switching factors from the depot
> garrison into the city garrison, but why should the depot garrison, which is
> outside the city, have to make up part of the city's maximum capacity ?
>
> -JJY
        It doesn't.  The total factors that could be left as garrison 
factors at Constantinople would be 25 without a depot present and 35 with a 
depot present.  But garrison factors have to have something to garrison to 
be dropped off, unlike corps which can be anywhere you want to leave 
them.  The corps could be present outside of the city in any numbers, but 
the garrison could have no more than 10 factors associated with the depot. 
all remaining garrison forces would have to be city garrison in any 
situation where it mattered.
        Since a city garrison can choose to fight rather than accepting a 
siege, about the only time it would matter that only 10 factors can be 
assigned to a depot is if you want to drop a really big garrison someplace.
        I think I did screw up that only ten garrison factors could choose 
to remain outside of the city.  The city garrison does not have to retire, 
so you could retire corps into the city and leave a larger number of 
garrison factors outside the city than the depot garrison of 10 factors.  I 
suspect that would normally be a poor choice as garrison factors don't 
retreat and typically have lousy leader values so you'd usually want your 
corps outside where they could withdraw or whatever and survive, but you 
could fight with the garrison factors instead of the corps if you wanted 
to.  I could see Turkey doing it as their garrison factors have a point 
more moral than most of their corps factors.

Mike

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