----- Original Message -----
Sent: Saturday, December 21, 2002 3:29
PM
Subject: Re: [eia] question about
multi-national sieges
JJ wrote:
Don't the rules you are refering to about a
party not at war with the attacker apply to field battles, not sieges
?
I reply:
I don't think so.
7.3.8, the introduction to the whole section, reads as follows: "To avoid
problems when moving into combat the following step sequence *must* be
followed whenever moving into an area containing two or more forces or when
using combined movement." I assume that siege battles are a type of
"combat."
Now there is an obvious
lawyer-like response that can be made at this point: since there was no
*movement* involved, this section does not apply. Obviously, I think
that response would be inadequate. (And I am not accusing JJ of making
it. I am just addressing it hypothetically in case anyone thinks to
use it.) Here we must understand spending 0 movement points
as an instance of "movement" as far as the rule is concerned.
Otherwise, there would be no rules at all to handle this case,
a consequence that is as unlikely as it is
undesirable.
kdh