[eia] corps-on-loan

While we're on the topic of amending 12.4, I thought I'd bring up the topic of corps on loan. (Obviously, this is a topic of some importance to me...) I am in favor of using the simple repatriation rules for returning corps-on-loan to their owners. Here's why. When you are withdrawing from FET, you are able to create necessary depots to get your troops home in one piece. On the other hand, a corps-on-loan has no possibility of support when marching home. It just has to keep foraging and hope that it can get back home with most of its force intact. And suppose Jim wanted to be really vindictive. He could easily march the corps that he currently has on loan all the way to Constantinople. (If he *really* wanted to be vindictive, he'd march it across the Dardenelles and then have one of Turkey's fleets block the path back to France!)

Plus, wouldn't the country that had the corps-on-loan want the corps out of its territory as soon as possible. Surely, the ruler of a country does not want a ravenous army marching across its territory, looting the supplies of local businesses and families (i.e. foraging). I think that from the perspective of realism, a ruler would do whatever he could to expedite the journey of the corps-on-loan back to its original owner's territory.

So because of the possibility for abuse of the rule (and due to considerations of realism), I think that using the force repatriation rules for corps-on-loan makes sense. Please let me know what you think.

kdh