Re: [eia] battles involving allied garrisons

["Kyle H" <menexenus@xxxxxxx>]

> 1.)  Does my garrison's participation in the battle involve GB in
political
> point losses or gains for the battle ?
>
> The heart of this question is, do all the allies involved in a field or
> limited field battle receive/lose PPs, or just the ones with _corps_ in
the
> battle ?  My first impression is that if there are anyone's corps involved
> on both sides in the battle, then everyone with _factors_ involved, not
just
> corps, should be included in the PP losses or gains.  Be everyone might
not
> agree.
>

    I definitely disagree.  If you have no corps in the battle, then you
have no effect on the political points that are up for grabs in the battle.
If you do not contribute a corps and are therefore not influencing the
number of political points that could be gained or lost, I don't see how you
could claim political points if your side wins the battle.

> 2.)  Would my garrison be allowed to participate in the relief battle if I
> did not have combined movement with the relievers ?
>

    My instinct is that you would not have to be combined with the relievers
to fight with them.  The rules allow that armies may attempt to reinforce
each other even when the two forces have not combined movement, so I assume
that garrisons can assist a land battle even if the forces in question have
not combined movement.

> Obviously, question #2 would not apply in the case of a depot garrison,
> which could only be involved in a defensive battle, and so would
definitely
> be able to fight.
>

    I don't think a situation like this would ever come up for a depot
garrison, because it will have either won its trivial combat, it will have
lost and been destroyed, or it will have fallen back into a city in the same
area.  There would never be an occasion when there would be a relief battle
involving a depot garrison, as far as I can tell.

kdh


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