Re: [eia] Access after peace

[Joel Uckelman <uckelman@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thus spake Michael Gorman:
> 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 be superceded by a voluntary access but in the absence of a voluntary 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.
>

I think that's correct. It does seem a bit odd to me that Prussia has
access to Russia and Turkey, because there aren't presently any Prussian
corps or garrisons in either place.

-- 
J.
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