Fw: [eia] evasion attempt off Naples

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

Here is the full text of the email which Mike partially quoted in his
response.  Note especially the second-to-last paragraph; I don't like the
rule, but let's just play on.  I'm not offended by anything that's been
written, and I hope I haven't offended others by my sounding off on the
subject.

We'll see what we can cook up against your wicked Franco-Russian schemes.  I
hope you'll be patient with us, since we are responding to a new situation
without the benefit of prior planning, and we need to consult, which can be
slow.  I'll send out all my non-Mediterranean naval orders momentarily.

-JJY
----- Original Message -----
From: <jjy@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <eia@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 3:57 PM
Subject: Re: [eia] evasion attempt off Naples


> While I see what you guys are saying as far as the letter of the rules
says, I
> find it _extremely_ silly that there is no limit to the number of
interceptions
> a defending stack can attempt before combat begins.  For example, a stack
of 30
> ships is attacked by, say, 30 fleets with 10 ships each.  This
interpretation
> makes it possible for the defending stack to intercept each and every
attacking
> fleet separately as it enters the area.  Not only is this silly in that it
> gives 30 ships a reasonable chance to defeat 300 ships, but also, at the
rate
> of one interception combat (or manuevering to intercept) per day, this
part of
> the naval phase would take up an entire month's game time, with nothing
left
> for naval combat or the land phase.  Or, if the attacking fleets are
supposed
> to be showing up simultaneously or almost simultaneously, how could there
be
> even a chance that every fleet could be intercepted ?
>
> Having said all this, I realize that it would just waste everybody's time
to
> suggest changing the rule at this point.  I want the game to keep moving
just
> as much as anyone, so I will work with the silly rule as written.  I don't
mean
> to or want to start a long argument.
>
> But before we can start sending out the Coalition's naval orders, I need
to
> know if Mike's interpretation about who can participate in an interception
> combat is agreed to by everyone; that is, if attacking fleets have already
> entered the defender's sea area, and another attacking fleet enters and is
> intercepted, can/do the phasing fleets already in the area join in the
battle
> against the interceptors ?
>
> -JJY
>
> >           I would say that since 6.2.2 says that all the fleets of a
major
> > power, or of major powers under combined movement, are considered one
stack
> > when in the same area, that an interception of an arriving fleet would
also
> > allow already present fleets to fight so long as they meet the who may
fight
> > rules in 6.3.1.  Those rules saying that you have to be at war with the
> > attacking stack in order to fight it with one exception that won't
matter in
> > this turn.
> >
> >   Mike
> >
> >
>
>
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