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Subject: [eia] two rules interpretation
questions
Question 1:
uninterrupted occupation. The rules for conquest of a minor country
(7.7) say that conquest occurs "only if the capital of the minor country was
occupied during the previous Turn and the conqueror has mantained
uninterrupted and unbesieged occupation for the entire current Turn."
So, let's say that a corps had occupied a capital the month before, but this
month it is to be relieved by a different corps. Must the corps in
relief show up *prior* to the departure of the occupying corps in order to
maintain uninterrupted occupation? Or can the conquering corps leave
first and the relieving corps show up later in the same Land Phase?
(This matters because of foraging rolls.)
Question 2: revealing
forces. The rules on exactly what information needs to be revealed at
the beginning of a battle are unnecessarily vague. The rule
(7.5.2.6.3) reads like this: "Both sides simultaneously reveal corps
identities, the exact size and composition of their forces and their final
moral levels." That's the whole rule. We get a bit more
information from page 38 of the rulebook where they show a sample Field
Combat Bulletin. There the strengths reported are aggregate, broken
down by type of troop. (Notice, though, that on page 38, cavalry corps
strengths are recorded separately. I had never noticed that before,
and it seems sort of strange.) However, the example on page 38 does
not involve allied forces.
So here's my question:
how do we report the forces of a coaltion like the one that fought recently
at Amsterdam? For example, are all infantry lumped together so that
only the total number of infantry present at the battle are reported,
regardless of nationality, or do the coalition forces have to report the
number of British infantry present as well as the number of Prussian
infantry? I think it makes more intuitive sense if
different nationalities are separated in the report because, after all,
they wear *easily distinguishable* uniforms on the
battlefield! When my spotters see columns of infantry in red
coats and columns of infantry in dark blue coats, they should be able to
estimate the size of each nationality separately, don't you
think?
Since France as well as the
coalition members all have conflicts of interest regarding this matter,
I am willing to abide by the judgements of Mike and Joel, who
are better able to deliver independent judgements on this question than any
of the rest of us.
kdh