Re: [eia] 3/05 Austria land phase

[Michael Gorman <mpgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 02:25 PM 7/28/2002 -0400, you wrote:
> Rule 7.3.7.1 seems to say both 1.)  that the attacker gets to know whether
> the defender is in the city or not before foraging, and 2.)  that if any
> corps in the area will besiege the city, all must.
> #2 implies to me that either all attacking corps must be eligible to
> besiege, or you can't besiege at all.
>
> -JJY

        Looking back over the other rules that talk about that, all corps 
must be able to siege if any are to siege, which seems odd, but, 
whatever.  However, I still do not believe that 7.5.4 support the idea that 
the defender must decide to retire into the city before the end of land 
movement.  I do not see how 7.3.7.1 indicates that the attacker knows if 
the defender will retire into the city before the end of movement.  It says 
that you can enter an area where a corps retired into a city in a previous 
turn or the space is only occupied by a city garrison and continue 
movement, but I don't see where it says that you get to know what the 
defender will decide during Land Combat before you get to Land Combat.
        I think the decision is placed on the attacker to determine if 
their force will deploy into an area in such a way that they will be able 
to lay siege to an enemy force.  If they decide to arrive unprepared to lay 
siege, then if the defender retires into the city, they aren't placed 
properly within the area to besiege them.  In the defender's next turn, 
they're stuck in the city unless they want to move out and attack the 
forces in the area and if they do not, then the corps that entered last 
turn can choose to just bypass them and keep moving without being forced to 
make difficult forage rolls or use depot supply or they can remain and 
start a siege.  The advantage being that they could build a depot in the 
area of the city and then start the siege at low depot costs if they can 
wait to begin the siege for one turn.

Mike


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