| J.J. Young on Sat, 13 Nov 2004 11:08:39 -0600 (CST) |
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| Re: [eia] British forage rolls, 4/06 |
This got resent by mistake. Sorry. -JJY ----- Original Message ----- From: "J.J. Young" <jjy@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: "public list for an Empires in Arms game" <eia@xxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, November 13, 2004 8:08 AM Subject: Re: [eia] British forage rolls, 4/06 > Hmm. I had known that the forage roll for that corps would take place at > the end of its move, before the next corps moved. But my mistake came in > thinking that the forage roll happened before factors were detached into the > city. From what Kyle has said, I see now that I was wrong (it seems obvious > now, as usually happens). > > What I should have said was: > > 1 I: Bayonne ---> Montpellier (drop 4 I) (f/ 2-) > > 1 I: Montpellier (pick up 3 or 4 I, depending on whether the previous corps > survives its forage roll) ---> W of Zurich > > In other words, I should have made the conditional whether or not the corps > from Bayonne survived, after rolling forage (it wouldn't have, as it turns > out). > > How about this solution: > -The corps moved from Bayonne to Montpellier and dropped 4 I. > -The corps was destroyed by its bad forage roll. > -I would have preferred to leave a 1 I garrison at Montpellier, but since my > orders were in error, the corps from Montpellier follows them anyway, > picking up all 4 I. > -The corps mistakenly leaves the city empty and moves away. > > Jim, is this solution acceptable ? > > -JJY > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Kyle H" <menexenus@xxxxxxx> > To: "public list for an Empires in Arms game" <eia@xxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Saturday, November 13, 2004 7:14 AM > Subject: Re: [eia] British forage rolls, 4/06 > > > > I'm not sure that your conditional garrison detachment strategy is > > legitimate. I thought that you had to complete your land orders before > > rolling supply for a given corps. That means you would also have to make > > choices about how many garrison factors to detach before rolling supply. > > (If all the factors in the corps are wiped out by a forage roll, then no > > garrison could be detached. However, it is possible to leave a garrison, > > and then have the rest of the corps wiped out by the forage roll. It > seems > > like that might have been the result of this situation had you left a 1 > inf > > garrison prior to rolling.) > > I might be wrong about this, but I thought that's how we played it > > before. In any case, I remember making some hard choices about whether to > > leave a garrison in my previous incarnation as France. > > > > kdh > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: <jjy@xxxxxxxxxxx> > > To: "public list for an Empires in Arms game" <eia@xxxxxxxxx> > > Sent: Saturday, November 13, 2004 12:20 AM > > Subject: Re: [eia] British forage rolls, 4/06 > > > > > > > So the corps moving to Montpellier lost 4 factors foraging. Because of > > this, > > > no factors were dropped off in the city to be picked up by the corps > > leaving > > > the area. The I Naples corps is presently at a strength of 5 I. > > > > > > -JJY > > > > > > > > > Quoting Dice server <dicemaster@xxxxxxxxx>: > > > > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > > > > > Dice rolls requested by: "J.J. Young" <jjy@xxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > Rolls sent to: > > > > eia@xxxxxxxxx > > > > > > > > # first roll is Montpellier forage at 2- > > > > # second roll is for Turin forage at 5- > > > > > > > > No. of sides on every die: 6 > > > > No. of dice for every roll: 1 > > > > No. of dice rolls requested: 2 > > > > No. of rolls per line: 1 > > > > > > > > 6 > > > > 2 > > > > > > > > > > > > Information on the dice server: > > > > DO NOT REPLY TO THIS MESSAGE! > > > > Replies to dicemaster@xxxxxxxxx vanish into a seldom-read mailbox. > > > > > > > > For instructions on using the dice server, send a message with > > > > subject "help" to dice@xxxxxxxxx, or see > http://www.nomic.net/~dice/. > > > > > > > > The dice server is provided by: > > > > > > > > nomic.net > > > > http://www.nomic.net/ > > > > > > > > > > > > Original message follows: > > > > >Return-Path: <jjy@xxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > >X-Original-To: dice@xxxxxxxxx > > > > >Delivered-To: dice@xxxxxxxxx > > > > >Received: from mailbox.iwaynet.net (mailbox.iwaynet.net > > [66.195.224.10]) > > > > > by charybdis.ellipsis.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53529EF87 > > > > > for <dice@xxxxxxxxx>; Fri, 12 Nov 2004 22:48:18 -0600 (CST) > > > > >Received: from giskard > > (dialup-4.224.63.174.Dial1.Cincinnati1.Level3.net > > > > [4.224.63.174]) > > > > > by mailbox.iwaynet.net (8.13.1/8.13.1) with SMTP id iAD4mDbr014447 > > > > > for <dice@xxxxxxxxx>; Fri, 12 Nov 2004 23:48:20 -0500 > > > > >Message-ID: <001601c4c93b$fd042fe0$9d3fe004@giskard> > > > > >From: "J.J. 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