Re: [eia] restricting limited access

[Michael Gorman <mpgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Proposed House Rule: Limited Access.  Rule 12.4 indicates that victorious powers have 'limited access' to the territory of the surrendering power after a peace treaty is signed.  [Note: if an informal peace is made between 2 powers, then there need not be a 'surrendering' power and a 'victorious' power.  However, I will continue to use these terms as a matter of convenience.]  The access is limited in the sense that any garrisons still in the surrendering power's territory 3 full months after the peace treaty will automatically be decommissioned, and any corps/fleets still in the surrendering power's territory 6 full months after the peace treaty will also be automatically decommissioned. 

    This House Rule adds an additional restriction to limited access: victorious corps may not engage in battle (of any kind) in territory* controlled by the surrendering power during the period of limited access unless voluntary access is granted by the surrendering power or war is declared again between the victorious power and the surrendering power.  This means that victorious garrisons, corps, and fleets cannot attack or be attacked while in the surrending power's territory.  If victorious forces are still at war with another power that is also in the surrendering power's territory, these forces are considered to be under a flag of temporary truce.  (That is, treat them as if they are not enemies while in the surrendering power's territory during limited access.) 

    These are the only restrictions imposed by the limited access mentioned in Rule 12.4.

 

* Territory controlled by the surrendering power includes land spaces, city spaces, ports, and blockade boxes.

 

        

One
thing to note is that there is no differentiation between the two powers
involved in the peace agreement in the original rule,  Both nations
have the limited access with the other nation.  If you make the
access one way then you immediately strand any forces of the defeated
power that are within the victorious power's areas.

        

Otherwise,
this seems a reasonable rule since the enforced peace makes it
effectively impossible for the nations that just made any kind of formal
peace to do anything about their former enemy's forces fighting within
their territory, and that very much makes no sense.

        

I would
amend the may not engage in battle to may not initiate battle.

        

In our
current situation where peace was made with most, but not all of a
coalition, Britain could theoretically use its access agreements with the
other victorious powers to attack French forces within their borders even
if they are no longer at war.  In that case, I would not think the
French would automatically be retreated in order to avoid them engaging
in battle of any kind.  That can't happen in this case, but if there
had been a French Corps in Lombardy and Britain went before France in the
land phase, I would think they could attack that corps even though the
French Corps has no access agreement to take part in battles on Spanish
soil.

Mike