Re: [eia] Turkish Land Phase, August 1807

[Joel Uckelman <uckelman@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thus spake "J.J. Young":
> Dammit, I wrote a long email about this and it vanished into the internet
> void.  The gist of it was that there must be some restriction of some sort
> on whose fleet you can use for invasion supply.  If not, then the French
> could build invasion supply depots on British fleets off their coast !  But
> there is no explicit restriction given against depots being placed on enemy,
> non-allied, allied, or combined movement allied fleets.
> 
> Personally, I think the lack of explicit restriction against depots on
> others' fleets implies that the rulemakers intended that you could only use
> your own fleets, and never even considered other possibilities.  I could
> live with being able to place depots on combined allies' fleets, if that's
> what the majority wants (although my vote is against it), but anything
> beyond that seems ridiculous to me.  How can Turkey be in charge of the
> depot, if there are no Turks or Turkish free-state nationals in the crews of
> the fleet the depot is placed on ?  That's my view.
> 
> -JJY

The Turkish government procures the supplies in Sarajevo, hauls them to
Venice overland, and gives them to the Venetians to ship to North Africa.
I don't see any reason to believe that this process would require a Turkish
presence in excess of what a depot itself represents.

As for your first contention, that this is an oversight on the part of the
designers: I wouldn't think that anyone could place a depot on an enemy
or even neutral fleet, as powers are generally prohibited from doing
anything in combination with the units of, or in the terrritory of enemy or
neutral powers. But we have examples of powers interacting with the units of
their allies, specifically with regard to supply. You supplied my corps at
Leghorn this turn. I'd think that using foreign supply would be more of a
problem than having native supply shipped by foreigners. There's no
guarantee that British musket balls are the right caliber for Turkish muskets,
and I'm sure a lot of my men couldn't eat hardtack for religious reasons.
But regardless of how badly the Venetians handle my supplies, my troops
will still be getting a Turkish supply load.

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