Re: Diplomacy rules question

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

Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1992 19:22:45 +0000

In article <1992Feb24.183356.29583@gdr.bath.ac.uk> chpetk@uk.ac.bath.gdr (Toby Kelsey) writes:
>
> I have been only playing Diplomacy for a short time, and a
>position has arisen which the rules are unclear about.
>
>Move:
>(English) Fleet Norway -> Sweden
>(German) Fleet Denmark s. Fl. Norway -> Sweden
>(English) Fleet North Sea -> Norway
>(English) Fleet Norwegian Sea s. Fl. North Sea -> Norway
>(Russian) Army Finland -> Norway
>(Russian) Fleet Sweden s. A. Finland -> Norway
>(Russian) Fleet St. Petersburg (N. Coast) s. A. Finland -> Norway
>[ s. = supports ]
>
>Obviously the attack on Sweden succeeds.
[remainder deleted]>

No.  The attack on Sweden fails.  This is where you misunderstand the
example.  You are correct that the attack from Norway cannot cut support
to itself.  What you miss is that because the unit it is attacking is
in support of the attack on itself, the two attack are directly
opposing, so the stregth 3 attack *from* sweeden succeeds, and the
stength 2 attack *to* sweeden fails.  If we delete the english attack
the result is the same(the second english attack, that is).

The interesting case is when there is no english attack, and the
russian attack has one less support.  Then the russian attack and
English/german attack are both stregth 2 and stand each other off,
even though the exact source and target differ.

Mel

References

Diplomacy rules question
chpetk@gdr.bath.ac.uk (Toby Kelsey)
Mon, 24 Feb 1992 18:33:56 +0000

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Diplomacy rules question
chpetk@gdr.bath.ac.uk (Toby Kelsey)
Mon, 24 Feb 1992 18:33:56 +0000