[WarInEur] Potentially awkward situation

[sgminfo at aol.com]

I don't know if this has every come up...

This evil musing has just come to me...

Whilst my Western Desert Force has just been surprised and given a right 
royal kicking by 10 German mechanised/Panzer divisions outside Tobruk.


It may lead to a gamey exploit.....

But I don't think it has ever been asked.


The British have sufficient MSUs to conduct a creditable campaign along 
the North African shoreline to get to Tripoli....

DAK waits at Tripoli with 20 Panzer divisions...lying hidden in wait, 
playing possum....

British duly arrive...

There is a brief bloodbath, and Dak destroys the Western Desert Force, 
sweeps down to Alamein sweeping all before it (into the counter trays), 
and overruning the 6/7 whatever MSUs scattered about along the coast...

The British are not too worried for Egypt...they have at least another 8 
fresh divisions hurrying around the cape....

When they arrive and man thedefenses at Alamein...there is no sign of 
DAK with its 20 Panzerdivisions

Next turn all the German panzer forces are seen in Russia rolling into 
the Ukraine, and it is clear that the Germans have abandoned North 
Africa and left an Italian covering force camped at Tripoli....

Here is the question for you all...

1.Think counter sets, think Manifests

2.Can the British now get an attack force in supply to attack Tripoli.???
or has DAK permanently spiked their guns???

If DAK overun an MSU it is captured?

SO far So Good...

OK assume for arguments sake that DAK overruns all the MSUs and captures 
them....


We look at the next production phase as the British roll up their 
sleeves to rebuild their logistics...

qns...

1. Do the British,
having lost all their MSU's through Capture, get  to be allowed to treat 
the 'lost' MSUs as destroyed? (and therefore eligible to rebuild)
Or is the counterset reduced and there are none to rebuild?

2.The Germans . having built out their gamebox of MSUs for Russia...get 
to run an overbuilt counter box (including all these extra captured MSUs)

3.We can we code for this eventuality (now we realise that the potential 
conflict is/might be there)

Note we might get crashes if we are over subscribed on the counter 
manifest if it is not a forseeable situation?

If the situation is as we are saying...

I propose:-

1Captured MSUs are treated as a destroyed units for the losing player 
(so he can start to rebuild them from a counter tray that is now 
onceagain full of unused MSUs.
2.The 'winning' MSU owner can have over his OB limit for the purposes of 
the game, but cannot build any more until his total deployed MSU base 
returns below the Maximum of his counter manifest...

Elsewise the raiding hammer blow permanently seals off the southern 
flank if it can be done...


Thoughts anyone????




-|steve|-
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