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

["J.J. Young" <jjy@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I believe our present understanding of the rules is that the attacker has
the option of besieging or not besieging each separate turn.  In fact, a
siege in progress on previous turns may be forced to stop, if one of the
attacker's corps ends its movement in the area and is ineligible to conduct
a siege, thus forcing all attacking corps in the area to stop the siege.

-JJY

P.S:  Is everyone else as tired of typing the word "siege" as I am ?  : )
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kyle H" <menexenus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <eia@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 7:55 PM
Subject: Re: [eia] Question: all-or-nothing and supply


>     Another question on the same topic:  I recall that once upon a time
the
> idea was floated that we would not require a corps to lay siege on the
first
> turn that it arrived, but *would* require it to lay siege on subsequent
> turns.  Did we decide to go with that, or was that idea rejected?  My
> perception of the rules is that a besieger can decide to stop the siege
any
> time he wants and still remain in the area.  (I don't know why he'd ever
> *want* to do that, but there may be a reason.)
>     Of course, as we all know, my understanding of the rules is still
> incomplete, so I could be wrong.  If I am wrong and there is decisive
rules
> language on this issue, could you please point me to it?
>
> Thanks,
>
> kdh
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Gorman" <mpgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <eia@xxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 1:32 PM
> Subject: Re: [eia] Question: all-or-nothing and supply
>
>
> > At 10:00 AM 8/1/2002 -0400, you wrote:
> > >     Everett, you are right.  If the an enemy corps is already
besieged,
> then
> > >you do not need to stop movement and declare an attack.  You can
continue
> > >moving right on by, if you wish.  Or you can stop and join the siege.
Or
> > >you can stop, and subsequently decide to lift the siege.
> > >
> > >kdh
> >
> > That last one is an important one to point out, I think.  The fact that
> you
> > need to supply a corps that stops in an area where you are involved in a
> > siege so as to allow it to join the siege or all corps must lift the
> siege.
> >
> >          There is one last scenario where you can continue movement, but
I
> > expect it'll be a rare one.  Once a corps is in a city, it remains there
> > until its owner's turn when they can spend zero movement points to
remove
> > it from the city.  This could lead to a situation where you enter an
area
> > with an enemy corps that has not yet left its city.  In that case, you
> > could also continue movement.  I imagine this is most likely if you
> abandon
> > a siege and then have another corps pass by that turn or if two nations
> are
> > at war with a third and are not using combined movement to coordinate
> their
> > actions.
> >
> > Mike
> >
> >
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