[WarInEur] Re: ZOCs

[kelvinwstevens at optusnet.com.au]

You have got to think of
 What is a ZOC?
It is small elements of a large unit running around the country side causing a bit of bother to an enemy that may be nearby.

But if there is a national border and the countries are not at war and don't have some kind of already established allied status or co-operation those elements are going to stop at the border.
At the start of Hostilities each countries forces are on their own side of the border. Suddenly a third party attacks. Do you suppose the first thing local commanders do is send small parts of their forces into a neighbouring country? I don't think so. They would wait for orders. They wouldn't have the big picture. There would be a small amount of time where there would be some confusion before orders would come from headquarters.



> Lawrence Duffield <lpdgraph at mcn.org> wrote:
> 
> What is wrong with:
> 
> ZOC's are projected for all active (non-neutral) units, from the  
> instant they become non-neutral?  Surely that would be easiest to  
> code and not have pro-axis connotations?
> 
> On Nov 5, 2007, at 7:51 AM, warineur-request at mailman.halisp.net wrote:
> 
> > What I'd like to see is a rule that can be applied universally  
> > regardless of the campaign  or scenario in play for ease of coding  
> > in the computer version.
> >