Re: [eia] 2nd Battle of the Forth, Coalition roll

[Joel Uckelman <uckelman@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thus spake jjy@xxxxxxxxxxx:
> Here is the relevant rule:
> 
> 6.2.6 ENEMY CONTROL OF A FLEET'S PORT: If a port in which a fleet is located 
> becomes enemy-controlled, the fleet must be moved immediately (this will not 
> happen during a Naval Phase, but during other phases and steps, including 
> during a Declarations of War Step) into an adjacent sea area or the port's 
> blockade box. Harbour defences are never used against fleets leaving a port.
> 
> 6.2.6.1: If the port is blockaded by an enemy fleet at the time, the fleet in
>  
> the port is scuttled instead and all its fleets and ships are lost. 
> Alternately, if desired, the blockaded fleet(s) may choose to fight the 
> blockading fleet(s), with the wind gauge automatically going to the blockadin
> g 
> fleet(s). The blockaded fleet(s) remains in the blockade box if it wins the 
> combat. The blockaded fleet(s) must be scuttled if it loses the naval combat.
> 
> I had thought the wording was that the blockaded fleet had to "attack" the 
> blockaders if driven out of the port, but the rule uses the vaguer "fight" th
> e 
> blockading fleets.  So I guess it is an interception combat (?) and the 
> blockaders are the attackers (?)
> 
> Does anyone disagree ?  This is a gray area, and I'm biased; I certainly don'
> t 
> want to ram this down anyone's throat.
> 
> If this is indeed the way we'll eventually interpret the result, then the 
> Viking Armada must choose to retreat to a port or be retreated to an adjacent
>  
> sea area.
> 
> -JJY

It had always been my impression that the fleet being forced out of the
harbor was the attacker, as they are trying to fight their way out,
hence the wording "the boockaded fleet may choose to fight".

-- 
J.
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