Re: MEPBM Food

From: eichmann@ceres.amp.uni-hannover.de (Holger Eichmann)

Date: Tue, 08 Oct 1996 00:00:00 +0000

>>> Does anyone know more precisely what the effects on movement are?
>
>Yes.  The movement cost for each hex is mulitplied by 4/3, and then
>rounded up.  A hex costing 2 would now cost 3, a 3 is now a 4, a 4 is now
>a 6, etc..  Note, that this makes it impossible to move into a (non-road)
>mountain hex.

Some more comments:
- rivers etc. are added to the movement cost, before it is multiplied
by 4/3. E.g. infantry without food moving into a plain hex and crossing a
river need 4/3*(3+2) = 20/3 -> 7 days for the movement

- An army moves with food, when it has at least 1 food at the start of the
movement order. So 100HI without food, which are standing at a Major Town
of the same nation, will move without food (although the Major Town
can feed 2500 troops; the 100HI will lose no morale).

BTW: I heard the rumour that forced march starts on day 0, while normal
march starts on day 1. Can anybody confirm or disprove this rule?

A good possibility to show that this rule is wrong would be a situation like
this: Let's say army A moves via Forced March from e.g. 3024 to 3124
and army B moves via Normal March from 3124 to 3024. If the rule is right,
both armies MUST stop each other at 3124. When both armies are standing at
3024 after the turn, the forch march must have started at the same time like
the normal march (perhaps I should explain the army movement that these
sentences are understandable: When army A moves from 3024 to 3124 and needs
6 days for the movement, it moves to 3124 immediately at stays 6 days at
3124. The same for army B: It immediately moves to 3024 and stays there
2 days. Because both movements are crossing each other, there is a 50%
probability that both armies are stopped at 3024 or at 3124, WHEN both
armies starts their movements on the same day)

Holger
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Holger Eichmann

eichmann@ceres.amp.uni-hannover.de

References

MEPBM Food
ALS@email_address
Mon, 07 Oct 1996 00:00:00 +0000
Re: MEPBM Food
kgiven@aol.com (KGiven)
Tue, 08 Oct 1996 00:00:00 +0000