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From: msj@gitpyr.UUCP (Mike St. Johns)
Newsgroups: net.games.pbm
Subject: Re: Dislodgement - supply vs convoy
Message-ID: <477@gitpyr.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 16-Jun-85 18:50:16 EDT
Article-I.D.: gitpyr.477
Posted: Sun Jun 16 18:50:16 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 17-Jun-85 04:24:02 EDT
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Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
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Summary: 

In article <5225@ukc.UUCP> ncg@ukc.UUCP (Nige Gale) writes:
>
>Picture this:
>
>ENGLAND
>A Lon -> Brest
>F Eng.Ch CON A Lon -> Brest
>A Pic SUP A Lon -> Brest
>
>FRANCE
>F M.A.O -> Eng.Ch
>F Brest SUP F M.A.O. -> Eng.Ch
>
>Now, is F Brest's supply cut because it has been dislodged, so that
>France's orders do not work, and A Lon captures Brest?
>Or does England's convoy fail because F Eng.Ch has been dislodged,
>so that England's orders do not work, and F M.A.O. captures the Channel?
>
>We ruled that England got Brest - Supply fails before convoy,

Rule XII.5 A convoyed attack does not protect the convoying fleet.  "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."

I.e. France got into the english channel, or should have.
-- 
Mike St. Johns
Georgia Insitute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
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