[WarInEur] ZOC projection

[Kent & Sue Haunschild]

Quick questions.  As a general rule ZOC do not extend across national borders on the turn a Neutral receives a DOW.  Is this an absolute? 

What happens when adjacent countries receive a DOW on the same turn?  If countries armed forces are forbidden to leave the country, do their ZOC project across the border at any time?

For example, if the Soviets DOW Rumania and Hungary on the same turn do the ZOC of Hungarian units project into Rumania and vice-versa for the Rumanian units immediately or only at the beginning of the second turn?

Same situation exists for Greece/Yugoslavia. Holland/Belgium, Belgium/France.  In all four of these situations there were either antagonisms or no prewar planning for mutual aid.  In the case of  Holland, and Yugoslavia the units cannot leave their respective countries. This last also applies to Eire, Portugal, and Switzerland. Spain may not enter France.

Can we agree on a universal rule? And, if so, how should it read?

Examples:

1) ZOC never extend across a border hex side on the turn a Neutral receives a DOW.

2) ZOC for those units which are unable to leave their country never extend across a border hex side.

3) On the turn that a country joins an alliance, the ZOC of the Neutral receiving a DOW or joining do to a political point trigger do not extend across border hex sides.

4) On the turn that a country joins an alliance the ZOC of units active in an alliance do not extend into the Neutral receiving the DOW or joining do to a political point trigger.

Basically what these rules say is that ZOC do not extend across borders in either direction on the turn of the DOW and never extend outside a country whose units are restricted to the country.

Comments? Alternative wording?

Kent
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