Re: [eia] Turkish/Russian repatriation summary

["J.J. Young" <jjy@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

The Swedish corps shown at Abo would have been repatriated to the same place
as the rest of the army with Moore.

Also, the 1 British I at Stockholm was picked up in March.

-JJY

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kyle H" <menexenus@xxxxxxx>
To: "public list for an Empires in Arms game" <eia@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, June 11, 2005 6:02 PM
Subject: Re: [eia] Turkish/Russian repatriation summary


>     Today at a FTF game with Jim and JJ, it was brought to my attention
that
> there may be times when a country needs to repatriate its soldiers from
> across the sea but doesn't have access to a port at all.  So counting
spaces
> from the nearest port (as I suggested) would be a bad precedent to set.
On
> reflection, this point makes sense to me.  So I will go with Joel's method
> of simply counting the spaces (land or sea) to find the "closest" space or
> city for repatriation.  That means that the 2 inf. factors from Rhodes and
> Corfu do end up at Triopli instead of Damascus.  I have attached a current
> map after repatriation.  Please double check it for errors.
>
> kdh
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kyle H" <menexenus@xxxxxxx>
> To: "public list for an Empires in Arms game" <eia@xxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, June 11, 2005 8:48 AM
> Subject: Re: [eia] Turkish/Russian repatriation summary
>
>
> >     Well, that's the thing.  There are no rules about *how* to count the
> > shortest distance between to locations when sea travel is involved.  I
> > assumed that you'd count all the spaces on a path that the people would
> > actually have to travel in order to get there.  I suppose another
> > possibility for counting the shortest distance is just to count land/sea
> > spaces with no regard for what path the people involved could actually
> take.
> >     Or you might reach Joel's conclusion if you were imagining an
> "invasion
> > supply" type situation in which the garrisons are dumped off without the
> use
> > of a port city.  I was imagining that to be an expensive proposition
that
> > was unlikely in times of peace as a method of returning home.  But I
could
> > be wrong.
> >     In any case, I see that both methods of counting the "shortest
> distance"
> > are reasonable.  Does anyone else in the group want to voice their
opinion
> > to help establish the precedent?
> >
> > kdh
> >
> > > > Maybe you were thinking that Tripoli was a port city?
> > >
> > > I was not counting travel through ports.
> > >
> >
>


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