Re: Diplomacy zine -- Quiz issue

From: jha@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Jamie Andrews)

Date: Thu, 04 May 1989 10:14:56 +0000

In article <17824@cup.portal.com> Eric_S_Klien@cup.portal.com writes:
>Rule XII.5 says the following:  "A CONVOYED ATTACK DOES NOT CUT
>CERTAIN SUPPORTS.  If a convoyed army attacks a fleet which is
>supporting an action in a body of water; and that body of water
>contains a convoying fleet, that support is not cut."

Well, in *my* version of the rules, XII.5 is the one saying
"A CONVOYED ATTACK DOES NOT PROTECT THE CONVOYING FLEETS.  If a
convoyed army attacks a fleet which is supporting a fleet which
is attacking one of the convoying fleets, that support is not
cut." This rule is necessary because it's the only case in which
the other rules could be applied with more than one result.
With this version, the quiz question proceeds as everyone expected.

I suspect that the other version was *intended* to mean
this, but is ambiguous.  The last occurrence of "convoying
fleet" should be "fleet convoying the attacking army".  Do I
have a newer version, which clears up the ambiguity?

--Jamie.
  jha@lfcs.ed.ac.uk
"I only found you guys because I mistyped 'rm'!" --J.Berryhill

References

Diplomacy zine -- Quiz issue
Eric_S_Klien@cup.portal.com
Tue, 02 May 1989 00:27:07 +0000