Re: [eia] Turkish land phase, 1805

[Michael Gorman <mpgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 11:33 PM 7/23/2002 -0400, you wrote:
> The Egyptian corps in Cairo withdraws into the city.  If the two Turkish
> corps choose to lay seige, this means that they cannot modify their forage
> rolls with unused movement points (7.4.1.2.2).  So the rolls would be 3-
> (4-1 corps already there) for the first corps to move in, and 2- (4 - 2
> corps already there) for the second corps to move in.
>
> Joel, since you didn't realize this when making out your orders, it's OK
> with me if you want to modify the orders, and/or a reroll for the forage is
> probably in order for the I corps in Egypt that already rolled (rather than
> that corps simply losing one more factor), unless you prefer to stick with
> the original roll of 5.
>
> -JJY
        I'm not sure that is correct.  The decision to retire into the 
city is not made until an attack is declared.  Attacks are not declared 
until the end of the movement phase, 7.5.1.  By then, all supply rolls have 
already been made.
        I looked this over when I was planning my move as I wanted a way 
to get to the corps in Nicopolis while it was alone.  But it seemed pretty 
clear that I could not consider the corps at Ruschuk under siege until the 
end of all of my movement.  In that case, the rules for using movement 
points when sieging would only apply in the turns following the beginning 
of the siege.  Otherwise, you'd have to redo the supply for several units 
after all movement was complete, and that doesn't follow the general supply 
rules that each unit is supplied as it finishes movement.

Mike


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