Re: ME-PBM rule questions

From: bcash@bnr.ca (Brian Cash)

Date: Mon, 14 Feb 1994 20:16:32 +0000

Samuel Freeman (freeman@cae.wisc.edu) wrote:
* I have several questions regarding ME-PBM rules:

* 1)  Following up on James Paisley's question about paying maintenance for
* troops that are lost in combat,  I was wondering what would happen if his
* forces captured a PC during the combat phase.  Would he collect revenue from
* this PC during the turn he captured it, or would he have to wait a turn?

If it is threatened/emissaried, the enemy gets the revenue.
If it is captured, I don't think anyone gets revenue: it is sieged.

* 2)  Let's say I have two armies in the same location and I want to transfer
* troops between them to make an all cavalry army.  Army A: 600HC/600LC/600HI.
* Army B: 300HC/300LC.  Is it possible for army A to transfer 600 HI to army B
* on the same turn that army B transfers 300HC/300LC to army A?  Are the
* orders considered simultaneous, or is it possible that B would go first,
* transfer away all his troops, and no longer be an army (to which A could
* transfer the HI)?

Eww.  I'm not sure if you can do a "split army" command to give away all of
your army.  I'd keep 100 LC just to be sure.

* 3)  My final questions concern two armies of different nations,
* both in the process of moving, which pass through the same hex at the
* same time.

* 	a)  If the two armies are enemies and neither are moving evasively,
* 	will they both *automatically* stop at the common hex, or is there a
* 	*possibility* that they won't encounter each other?

99% will stop at common hex.  I have never heard of normal movement passing
though each other, but who knows what GSI has in the program.
Make that 99.9%.

* 	b)  Nation A has neutral, dislike, or hatred towards Nation B.
* 	Nation B tolerates Nation A.  Would an army of Nation A be forced
* 	to stop for Nation B's army while Nation B's army could just pass
* 	on through?

Not sure.  I've heard of conditions where only one army stops, but
I think that was with evasive manuvers.

Brian /-|-\
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References

ME-PBM rule questions
freeman@cae.wisc.edu (Samuel Freeman)
Fri, 11 Feb 1994 18:32:48 +0000