Re: [eia] Spanish Reinforcement Phase (Sept. 05)

[Michael Gorman <mpgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 12:38 PM 3/29/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>     My vote is that Spain should have to take back its war declaration.
> Like Joel, I was expecting Danny to produce a new corps at Barcelona,
> Cartegena, or Cadiz.  To avoid situations like this in the future, I'd say
> that declarations of war can only be made if the force necessary to do so is
> *already on the map* at the time of the declaration.
>
> That's my opinion.
>
> kdh
I would say that it was only impossible for Spain to declare war if they 
had not purchased a corps.  Otherwise, if they had a corps in hand and 
factors that could be placed in that corps arriving this turn, it was 
entirely possible for them to invade.  Yes, this interpretation means we 
have to trust each other to be honest about what reinforcements we have in 
hand, but I'm comfortable with that.

If Spain did not have a corps available to deploy or no reinforcement 
factors arriving this turn that could be placed in a corps in hand, then 
the war declaration would have to be taken back.  If that actually matters 
to anyone else's reinforcement phases, we'd obviously have to allow them to 
change those phases.

I'm not strongly bound to this opinion if everyone else feels that we 
should require corps to already be in the field, so I'm willing to give 
this one up without an argument if everyone else wants to go that way.

Mike


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