Re: [eia] allow me to muddy the waters even more

[Michael Gorman <mpgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 11:09 PM 10/9/2003 -0500, you wrote:

> > You cannot normally tell a force in your country it
> > cannot fight once you've given it access.  You cannot normally tell a 
> force
> > in your country it cannot besiege your cities once you've given it access,
> > nor can you restrict its right to besiege your cities in an access
> > agreement.  The fact is, any level of access in this game lets someone do
> > whatever they damn well please inside your nation once they have
> > access.
>
> That is not true:
>
> 10.3.1.2.2 Voluntary Access Limitations: . . . The player through whose
> territory access is desired may set any conditions (eg., whether the
> moving major power can leave garrisons, build depots, payment for the
> privilege, etc.).

This would not get around the land combat rules allowing no exceptions to 
enemy forces in the same space battling each other.  It would also not get 
around the requirement that you must besiege a city if you have any forces 
starting the turn in the same space and it is enemy occupied.  The access 
rules can amend and alter the movement rules, but there is nothing in land 
combat that allows for exceptions to enemy land forces having to fight.

If you are careful with your access terms you can make it uncomfortable for 
them to fight, but that's about it.

I think the only way we could make the limited access prohibit sieges is if 
we prohibited forces from entering city spaces.  Of course, this would mean 
all garrisons are lost at the end of a war.

Demanding that you can't enter an enemy occupied space is not going to fly 
since it would allow someone who you are at war with to blockade you from 
getting out of the country you made peace with and force you to stand down 
your entire invading army.

Unless you can find a way to prohibit enemy forces from entering the same 
space without making the rule utterly untenable, I don't believe it is 
possible within the rules to prohibit enemy forces from fighting each other 
when they are in the same space.

Mike



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