Re: [eia] Nelson/Napoleon

[Michael Gorman <mpgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 11:12 AM 7/30/2004 -0400, you wrote:
>     My belief is that only GB can gain or lose political points on account
> of Nelson's presence at a battle.  Similarly, I think that only France can
> gain or lose political points on account of Napoleon's presence at a battle.
> While this is not stated clearly in the rules, I think it is the best way of
> following the spirit of the rule change we adopted regarding how
> multi-national forces are awarded political points after a battle.  Since we
> have accepted the fundamental principle that different countries on the same
> side of a battle can gain or lose differing amounts of political points, it
> makes sense to me that we should differentiate who gets the benefit for
> having Nelson/Napoleon.  (After all, why would the Turkish people be
> encouraged because some foreign guy was in command when we won a battle?)
>
> kdh

        I tend to agree with Kyle's point but based on how we set things 
up last game, but it does lead me to think of another possible situation 
that we might as well figure out too.

        I'm not sure how likely this is to come up with the number of 
fleet losses this game, but what if there was only one British fleet with 
Nelson and say all of the Spanish or Russian fleets on one side of a 
battle.  The way we put things for land combat, the Russian or Spanish 
fleet would be considered the primary combatant since they contributed the 
most fleets/ships and thus would get the full value of the battle while the 
British would get one point for being there to help out.  So, who would get 
the Nelson bonus then?

        I figure this gives another way to look at it and if we find a 
solution that looks good from both directions we'll stay happy with it.

Mike


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