Ok I see where you stand. But I think it refers to whole corps when it
speaks for "portion of forces".
Lets take an example: A French corps with 20 infantry is attacked in an
area where there is an empty city with four spires (but no fletch). As a
French player I do not like the odds of the attacking army, so I decide to
place 19 infantry inside the city *after* you move and declare the attack.
This way, even if you win the siege against 19 French infantry, you will
not even get a PP because the corps never retreated inside - it didn't have
to. And I did that after seeing what you had sent against me. Can I do that?
On Thu, Mar 8, 2018 at 8:03 PM, Yannis Sykamias <ysykamias@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
I agree with Dimitris, the rule allows for a portion of defender’s forces
to retire in the city. Since there is no explicit definition of portion of
“something” I can accept that it allows for factors from a corps to retire
in the city while the corps remains outside.
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*From:* eiagreek-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <eiagreek-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> on
behalf of Dimitris Stavr. <poliorkitis@xxxxxxxxxxx>
*Sent:* Thursday, March 8, 2018 7:23:38 PM
*To:* eiagreek@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
*Subject:* [eiagreek] Re: dropping factors when attacked
in Lille i followed the rule
7.5.1.1 DEFENDER RETIREMENT INTO CITY: Any forces or portion o 1f
forces upon whom an attack is declared may immediately retire into any
friendly controlled or vacant, and unbesieged city in that area but not so
as
to exceed that city's garrison capacity
to me it was clear that as a defender i had this right.
if this should be interpreted in a different way, you have my opinion, the
stage is yours.
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behalf of Makis Xiroyannis <makis.xiroyannis@xxxxxxxxx>
*Sent:* Thursday, March 8, 2018 19:15
*To:* eiagreek@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
*Subject:* [eiagreek] dropping factors when attacked
Another question that I don't remember if we clarified or what we decided
If a corps is attacked in an area with a city and wants to fight (as
opposed to retreat behind walls) can the defending corps still remove
factors from it and place them into the city?
I thought we could not since defender is not a phasing player, but I saw
Prussia doing that in Lille, shall we play it this way?