[eia] Re: Not true, see 6.3.1.1, it's explicit, France is the attacker.

[Michael Gorman <mpgorman@xxxxxxxx>]

Appologies to Bill for sending this to him twice already but I missed the 
change in sender and was confused at it never hitting the list.

At 04:54 PM 3/14/2006, you wrote:
> Not true, the blockaded fleets attempt to flee the port, thereby setting 
> up an interception, the rules are actually explicit, and France is the 
> attacker.

Under 7.1.3 France is the phasing player for all steps occurring during the 
French land phase.

6.3.1.1 declares the attacker to be the phasing fleet that ends movement in 
the non-phasing fleet's location.  The non-phasing player is moving so this 
isn't happening.  It also says that the non-phasing intercepter is the 
battle when you've used the interception rules.  But France is not a 
non-phasing intercepter, France is the phasing player.

If we treat this as interception, then the non-phasing player who made the 
decision to initiate the naval battle is the combined British/Russian fleet 
player.

Well I think 6.2.6.1 is an exceptional rule since it is a non-standard 
naval battle declaration, even if we try to force it into 6.3.1.1 as an 
interception, then the non-phasing player is the attacker and that is not 
France.  As the French fleet has at no point entered the space of an enemy 
fleet, France cannot be an attacker under 6.3.1.1 as the one way for the 
phasing player to be the attacker has not occurred.

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