[eia] Access after peace

[Michael Gorman <mpgorman@xxxxxxxx>]

Just a quick note on the implications of peace treaty access as opposed to 
the voluntary access we've been discussing lately.

Having made peace, there is a limited access agreement automatically in 
place between Prussia and Turkey and Prussia and Russia.  This access can 
be superceded by a voluntary access but in the absence of a voluntary 
agreement, the peace treaty access has several key differences from what 
we've been talking about.

The big one is that the peace treaty access has no right of return 
path.  Once it expires, it is expired, the end.

I expect this to mostly be an issue for Prussia since people on either side 
of Prussia are still at war and the implications for activity within 
Prussia are summed up as follows:

Peace having been made in July, in the reinforcement phase three months 
later, October, any Russian or Turkish garrisons in Prussian cities will be 
removed from the board and disbanded for garrisons or scuttled for 
fleets.  After that time, Russia and Turkey no longer have access to place 
garrisons into Prussian cities, including retiring into the cities to avoid 
field battles.  They can still garrison depots for three more months though.

After 6 months, January reinforcement phase, all Russian and Turkish forces 
within Prussia are demobilized/scuttled and Russia and Turkey no longer 
have any form of access into Prussian territory.  If a corps used the 
limited access to invade French territory, they do not have a right to 
return via the limited access and would have to reach a voluntary agreement 
with Prussia or find another route home, like Austria or by naval transport.

Prussia has access to Turkey and Russia under the same terms and for the 
same time periods so Prussian garrisons still in Russia can be retrieved 
and if Prussia wanted to send forces someplace or have maneuvers or 
whatever they have the same rights to Turkey and Russia as Turkey and 
Russia have to Prussia.

As the peace made between the three powers was informal, they can redeclare 
war and that would supercede the limited access or they could make an 
alliance and make a voluntary access agreement which would also supercede 
the limited access in any areas of their countries covered by the voluntary 
agreement.


Just wanted to have that down to make sure we're all on the same page for 
what the limited access means so we don't have any surprises in a few turns 
if it comes out that we didn't all see limited access the same way.  So if 
you read this and say, wow, Mike's crazy if he that's how he read the 
limited access rules, now's the time to make sure we get that out of our 
system and play on a common set of rules for the next few months in Prussia.

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