Re: [eia] Question: all-or-nothing and supply

[Michael Gorman <mpgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 02:39 PM 7/31/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>    
> So now that I need to re-orient myself to an interpretation of the
> rulesthat I'm not familiar with, I'm going to need some help from time to
> time.  I hope you can all be patient with me as I try to re-fix my
> conception of the game.  
>     I agree that the rules are
> very explicit about sieges being all or nothing - all the available corps
> must take part or none can.  So there is no reason not to maintain
> that rule if people want it.  But how in the future will we deal
> with a situation like the one that came up this month when Austria paid
> for 3 corps to arrive at Turin, but the 4th one foraged using unused
> movement points?  Would we say that the entire stack is unable to
> lay siege that turn?
>  
> kdh
>

        

Pretty
much.  Everett and JJ both seem in support of the rule that way and
unless someone wants to take a strong stand to change it, I don't think
there is anyone committed to seeing it altered.  So, I expect it
will stand as is.

Mike