Re: Question on player suicide

At 9:49 AM -0500 1/15/04, [email protected] wrote:
>"A Budapest Supports A Serbia - Budapest
>A Bulgaria Supports A Constantinople - Bulgaria
>F Greece Supports F Ionian Sea - Greece
>A Trieste Supports A Venice - Trieste
>A Vienna Supports A Bohemia - Vienna
>
>Now, obviously, these orders are illegal."
>
>They ARE illegal, cause no self dislodgement. So every piece HOLDS.

Just to be a little persnickety, these orders are not technically 
illegal.  I see nothing in the rules which prohibit a unit from 
supporting an attack on its own space.  The support is completely 
valid, it is simply not effective for the purpose of 
self-dislodgement and any second country's units making an attack 
into the space will also cut the offered support.  The net effect is 
to hold, but the orders themselves are technically valid.  (That's a 
purely semantic point, I realize.)

On the larger question of what the GM should do, I simply echo 
everyone else: process the orders the same as everyone else's. 
You've already gotten clarification as to intent, so there's nothing 
else to be done.  It is a player's privilege to "unbalance" a game, 
if that is what they choose to do.  There's nothing unfair about it. 
If another player is disadvantaged, it is up to them to convince this 
guy not to throw himself upon the sword.

-- 

-Adam Kuehn

"This sentence includes exactly threee erors."