Re: [eia] Question

[Michael Gorman <mpgorman@xxxxxxxx>]

At 10:31 PM 3/4/2005, you wrote:
> Thus spake "J.J. Young":
> > Hi there, Napoleon.
> >
> > To answer your question about this list, we use it as a way to submit 
> orders
> > and carry out diplomacy for our own play-by-email game of EIA.  It's not
> > really intended as a general forum for rules discussion, except as 
> questions
> > come up in our specific game.
>
> It sometimes seems like it's a general forum for rules discussion. :)
>
> > But here's my answer to your rules question anyway, which I think most of
> > the group woulod agree with.  According to the rules about minors with 2
> > districts, when the major district (Naples) is conquered, the minor 
> district
> > (Sicily) automatically changes hands as well, unless the two are already
> > separate before the conquest.  If Spain is at war with the Austrian
> > conquerers, and Spanish forces are occupying Sicily, then Spain may well
> > conquer the island back a month later.
> >
> > That's my view, anyway.  Hope that helps.  Happy Gaming !
> >
> > -JJY
>
> I concur.
>
> By 11.7, The Kingdom of the Two Sicilies is a multi-district minor with
> Naples as the primary district, and by 10.4.3, control of all districts
> goes to whoever conquers the primary district. So Austria should have
> conquered Sicily at the same time as Naples (which makes the point of the
> fleet blocking the Strait of Messina moot, since it would stand down upon
> the capitulation of the Kot2S).
>
> Lapse of war applies to whole minors, not their component districts. There
> are only two ways that Spain could end up with Sicily through lapse of war:
>
> 1. War lapses with a Spanish-controlled Kot2S, so Spain ends up with both
> Naples and Sicily together as one political unit, or
>
> 2. War lapses with Spanish-controlled Sicily, and the Kot2S does not exist.
>
> --
> J.
If Spain declares war on Austria, I would read that as Spain controlling 
the secondary province and thus the country would not change hands per 
10.4.3.1.  If Spain didn't declare war, then there would be no way to 
prevent Sicily being conquered simultaneously with Naples.

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