[WarInEur] Counting to 5

[Hansen]

Kent writes:
Okay! Does anyone have a problem with this rules interpretation?

"Within" is inclusive of the hex adjacent to the border but exclusive of the

personnel center hex.

Would it be acceptable to expand this to cover those personnel centers which

consist of multiple hexes (Moscow & Leningrad) by inserting "a" in place of 
the "the" in the above sentence?

It would then read:

"Within" is inclusive of the hex adjacent to the border but exclusive of a 
personnel center hex.

This would allow Soviet units belonging to a Reserve District to setup up to

five hexes away from any of the Personnel Centers comprising the City.

The alternative is to use the hex containing the Moscow and Leningrad cities

as the center point.

John replies:
I always counted the personnel center hex as the first hex. But I can see
the argument both ways. One way of looking at this is not counting the hex
with the personnel center would say it is not included in the set up (i.e.
it was not counted out when you went 1, 2, 3, 4, 5). So you can't put troops
in the personnel center hex, which is obviously to me what was not intended
by the rule.

I don't have time to do this, but I would look at the map and see if one
interpretation or another would have a significant effect. Examples would be
reaching a Crimea choke point, access to a better rail road hex (not just
one further down the track), not being able to fit all the forces if the
personnel hex was not counted, crossing a bay, etc.

Absent some advantage or twist that just doesn't ring true historically, I
don't have heartburn for either interpretation.