Re: Diplomacy support question

From: nicholso@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov (Melvin H. Nicholson YBH)

Date: Mon, 16 Mar 1992 20:49:32 +0000

In article <9207311.13836@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> ure@ee.mu.OZ.AU (dugal ure) writes:
>In article <1992Mar12.210625.20004@odin.corp.sgi.com> fred_s@sgi.com (Fred Scott) writes:
>>In article <1992Mar12.103013.25640@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> as504@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Kai Hortmann) writes:
>>>
>>>Please take a look at the following situation and tell me or the
>>>group what you think of it:
>>>
>>>German A Tyr - Vie
>>>German A Boh S A Tyr - Vie
>>>
>>>Austrian A Vie - Boh
>>>Austrian A Bud - Vie
>>>Austrian A Gal S A Bud - Vie
>>>
>>>Now the question: Does the German attack on Vienna succeed?
>>
>>The army in Vienna which bounced off of Bohemia winds
>>up back in Vienna.  For purposes of the standoff between its own friendly
>>armies and the enemy attack into Vienna, it is considered a "beleagured
>>garrison".
>
>I replied by mail with something similar to this but then I started
>thinking.... the Vienna attack on Bohemia doesn't cut the Bohemian
>support intended against the piece already incumbent in Vienna, but
>I'm not sure it doesn't cut support when considering the 2-2 standoff
>between the other four pieces. It doesn't matter anyway in this
>case as it merely reduces the German attack to 1-2 instead of 2-2;
>but what would happen if the pieces in Bud and Gal were (say) Russians,
>then would the Viennese attack cut the German support, thus allowing
>the Russians into Vienna? I.e. effectively letting a beleagured
>garrison 'choose' which attacking army was allowed in?
>
Under the current rules, the situation would still be a belaguered
garrison even if the army belonged to a third country.  I think the
main arguement for not altering the rules to effectively allow a third
party to determine which of equal attacks succeed is the same as the
reason that units cannot support an attack on themselves.

Mel

References

Diplomacy support question
as504@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Kai Hortmann)
Thu, 12 Mar 1992 10:30:13 +0000
Re: Diplomacy support question
fred_s@sgi.com (Fred Scott)
Thu, 12 Mar 1992 21:06:25 +0000
Re: Diplomacy support question
ure@ee.mu.OZ.AU (dugal ure)
Fri, 13 Mar 1992 01:33:28 +0000