Re: [eia] rules question

["Kyle H" <menexenus@xxxxxxx>]

    As Joel said, a corps that lands inside a besieged city instantly
becomes part of the city garrison (assuming that the corps is a nationality
that is at war with the besiegers).  So that corps may do anything that a
garrison may do, including joining a limited field combat.  However, in
order to initiate a limited field battle, some other enemy corps would have
to enter the land space surrounding the besieged city (the space that
contains the besiegers).  If there is no corps entering the land space
around the besieged city, then all that the corps inside the city may do is
initiate a Garrison Attack Combat.  But, assuming that there is another
corps that will be entering the space around the city (and not the city
itself) during the same turn, then a limited field combat would be initiated
and the corps that was dropped off within the city would have the option of
joining the combat as per the limited field combat rules.
    If this is indeed the case, then I do not see why the rules for crossing
a river into combat should apply (unless the corps attacking the land space
around the besieged city is *also* disembarking from a fleet).  If the corps
that arrives outside the city walls did not cross a river or use a crossing
arrow, then I don't see why the crossing-a-river combat tables would apply.
(While it is true that a corps disembarked into the city, they did not
disembark directly into combat.  Rather, they disembarked into a besieged
city and then later joined a combat from behind the city walls.)

kdh

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "J.J. Young" <jjy@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "public list for an Empires in Arms game" <eia@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, December 10, 2005 12:41 PM
Subject: [eia] rules question


Can a corps be landed inside a besieged city and still participate in a
limited field battle to relieve that city on the same turn ?  If so, would
that battle still be modified as for an amphibious landing ?

-JJY
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