Re: [eia] Retreat rules

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

I believe a retreating defender cannot retreat to or through the space the
attacker came from.  This creates other circumstances when the retreating
army might be captured.

Hmm. But what if the attacking forces came from two or more directions ?
Hmmm.

-JJY


----- Original Message -----
From: "Kyle H" <menexenus@xxxxxxx>
To: "public list for an Empires in Arms game" <eia@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, August 25, 2003 9:03 PM
Subject: Re: [eia] Retreat rules


> Jim wrote:
> > Per 7.5.2.10.3.6 a force with no available retreat route is captured ,
> along
> > with any leaders present.  For the sake of simplicity, I think we should
> > adhere to the rules where possible.
>
>     Well, if a unit is surrounded, it does have a retreat route - through
> the enemy force towards its nearest depot.  The house rule I was proposing
> was something like this:
>
> A retreating army should be retreated to a/the unobstructed space which is
> closest to the army's closest depot (or the nearest capital, if there are
no
> depots on the board).  Notice that a space is not considered if it
contains
> cossacks, freikorps, guerillas, or garrisons - only if it contains enemy
> corps.  If there are no unobstructed spaces available to retreat to, then
> the army is retreated through the enemy (as per the rules in the book).
>
> One might ask:  if one can always be retreated through the enemy, when
would
> the rule that Jim sites ever come up?  The answer is: very rarely.  The
only
> instance I can think of is when a battle is fought on an island.  If the
> island has only one space, like Malta, then there would be no place to
> retreat to, and the enemy would be captured.
>
> kdh
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