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

[Michael Gorman <mpgorman@xxxxxxxx>]

At 06:51 PM 8/11/2006, you wrote:
>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.

The retreating force is phasing since it belongs to the phasing 
player.  Why would it no longer be phasing because it lost a battle? 

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