[eia] limited field combats

In the spirit of bringing up rules-issues before they happen, just yesterday I noticed an omission in the rules. The solution seems obvious to me, but I want to make sure there are no objections. 7.5.4.2.3.1.1 talks about what happens if an attempt to lift a siege fails. It says, "...the entire relieving force returns to the area from which it entered the siege area (returns to any one of the areas from which it entered if more than one)." This language does not cover the case when the relieving force disembarked from a ship.

As it is impossible to re-embark after disembarking, I assume that the most reasonable solution is to retreat the relieving force as per the retreat after combat rules. If anyone disagrees that this is the most reasonable solution, please let me know soon (as it may come up during the current land phase).

kdh

With all the time invested to get to this point in the turn, were're painted into a corner as to how to interpret the rule. I wish I felt certain about the intention of the rule-makers; this is one of the worse lapses I've seen of being vague about a situation which is bound to come up. The only (other) thing I'm going to say on the matter is that we really should have hashed this rule out as a group ahead of time, and I take my own full share of the blame for this. I recognized the vagueness of the rule the first time I read it, and I'm sure everyone else did, too (unless I am just way off base). But my desire to be close-vested about my plans kept me from bringing it up, until we come to this situation where our entire naval turns have been based on different assumptions. I promise to do better in the future about bringing up issues where (at least to me) the rules are fuzzy, as soon as I see them, instead of letting matters drift.