Re: [eia] Turkish/Russian repatriation summary

["Kyle H" <menexenus@xxxxxxx>]

    Thanks for the corrections.

kdh

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "J.J. Young" <jjy@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "public list for an Empires in Arms game" <eia@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, June 11, 2005 10:30 PM
Subject: Re: [eia] Turkish/Russian repatriation summary


> 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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