Re: Question about Spain and coasts

Well, in this case, the rulebook is not especially clear, but you do raise a
valid general question.  At what point does a house rule become "strong"
enough to push a Standard game into variant status?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Deepak Mohoni" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 8:50 PM
Subject: Re: [CAT23-Gchat] Question about Spain and coasts


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> If house rules overrule one or more of the standard dip rules, doesn't
that
> make the game a variant rather than a standard one?
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> Cheers,
> Deepak
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Adam Kuehn" <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 8:15 PM
> Subject: Re: [CAT23-Gchat] Question about Spain and coasts
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> > Packrat wrote:
> >>Okay folks, a generic question for you all.
> >>
> >>Given a fleet on the SOUTH coast of Spain how would
> >>you, as a GM, rule on each of the following orders:
> >>
> >>1.  F Spain (south coast) supports WME to MAO
> >>
> >>2.  F Spain supports WME to MAO
> >>
> >>3.  F Spain (north coast) supports WME to MAO
> >>
> >>One of those situations came up in a game and I
> >>wondering if I am being unreasonable or not.  Assume
> >>Spain and WME both belong to the same country.
> >
> > I require correct coastal designations at all times for fleets
> > already in or moving to a multi-coastal province.  Therefore, in my
> > games, only the first of these is valid.  I can see a colorable
> > argument for the second one, however, and in the absence of a house
> > rule, I think most GMs would accept it.  The third is clearly
> > invalid, unless there are house rules to the contrary.  Note that the
> > MHR do include an option to make this a valid order, but in my view,
> > unless the house rules are explicit, it should be disallowed.  There
> > is no fleet on the north coast of Spain, and there is no ambiguity in
> > the order.
> >
> > Obviously, Martin disagrees, but that's my take.
> >
> > -Adam
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