RE: [eia] Prussian forage roll

["Nate Ellefson" <nellefson@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

JJ's right; for all the reasons he listed I guess I've taken it to go
without saying that there would be a siege in such a situation.

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> From: eia-bounces@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:eia-bounces@xxxxxxxxx] On 
> Behalf Of J.J. Young
> Sent: Saturday, April 16, 2005 1:32 PM
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> 
> Nate should correct me if I'm wrong, but I understood that 
> the Austrians did besiege Wittenburg, but did not attempt to 
> breach this turn.  At least, all the Austrian corps that went 
> there paid for supply, and Nate said that no breach roll 
> would be attempted at Wittenburg, which implied to me that a 
> siege was going on.
> 
> BTW all, to avoid this kind of confusion, I usually phrase my 
> land orders like so:
> 
> 1 I:  Erfurt ---> besiege Wittenburg
> 
> to clarify that a siege is beginning or continuing, at least 
> in cases where there's no question of the city garrison 
> fighting in the field rather than defending the city.
> 
> -JJY
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Gorman" <mpgorman@xxxxxxxx>
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> Sent: Saturday, April 16, 2005 1:22 PM
> Subject: RE: [eia] Prussian forage roll
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> 
> > At 08:32 AM 4/16/2005, you wrote:
> > >I'm presuming Mike made a typo when he said the Saxons are 
> reduced to 
> > >4I, since, in addition to the fact that I also had them 
> starting at 
> > >4I, if they had started the turn with 6I he would have to have 
> > >foraged at 3-, not 4-.  I agree that they should have 2I remaining.
> >
> > Their forage roll does not vary with strength as they are not 
> > besieged.  They forage normally, three available movement 
> and within 
> > home nation, but penalties of 2 for winter and 2+ for other 
> corps in 
> > the area.
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