Re: [eia] Round 3, Mantua retreat question...

[Joel Uckelman <uckelman@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thus spake "James Helle":
> I'm not so sure I agree with Joel about this.
> 
> If a corps that had used unused MP to forage retreats into an active siege
> that shouldn't cause the siege to end.  The foraging had already taken place
> before the retreat!  And in a totally different land area!  I disagree that
> this should affect another corps ability to besiege.
> 
> This is backed up by the wording in 7.5.4: "A phasing force that just
> attacked and won a field or trivial combat in an area may then besiege an
> enemy city in that area if all corps *in the phasing force* used depot
> supply and / or did not use unused MP to modify a foraging roll".
> 
> The key here, IMO, is that a retreating force is not a phasing force.  A
> phasing force is one using MPs to change it's location during it's land
> phase order.  A retreat is an entirely different form of movement.

I read 7.5.4 as applying to victorious attackers only. The rule that
I think is applicable here is one which is in the section on foraging,
7.2.something.
 
-- 
J.
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