Post by martin on Nov 25, 2023 9:39:19 GMT
Query from a recent game…
BUA rules, page 7:-
1 ) If the garrison is destroyed, any one of the assaulting enemy elements… occupies the city and sacks it, until PIP score of 5 or 6’ … + ……’ Prior to that the sacking element does not get a garrison tactical factor…’.
2 ) Three lines later…’If the denizens…are destroyed and it is left unoccupied or vacated, either side can move into it or through it without combat’… + …’An appropriate enemy element immediately becomes a garrison on moving into it.’
Query -
Side A attacks side B’s city, kills the defending denizens, captures it and sends in an element, who commences sacking the city.
Side B sends an element which then attacks the sacking element, and destroys it. DOES IT MOVE IN? ie like an assaulting element which has destroyed a defending ‘garrison or denizens’, effectively getting a free move into the city?
Per wording/R.A.W. the sacking defender in this case was neither ‘garrison’ nor ‘denizens’, so technically no.
Perhaps the wording might have been intended to let the secondary attacker leap the walls in the same way? Otherwise, an attacker who destroys a sacking defender might be told he a) has to enter or leave the city via a gateway (as suggested in the FAQs)? and b) has to wait til his next turn before he does so [and in the meantime another opponent might occupy that empty city, per point 2.]
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BUA rules, page 7:-
1 ) If the garrison is destroyed, any one of the assaulting enemy elements… occupies the city and sacks it, until PIP score of 5 or 6’ … + ……’ Prior to that the sacking element does not get a garrison tactical factor…’.
2 ) Three lines later…’If the denizens…are destroyed and it is left unoccupied or vacated, either side can move into it or through it without combat’… + …’An appropriate enemy element immediately becomes a garrison on moving into it.’
Query -
Side A attacks side B’s city, kills the defending denizens, captures it and sends in an element, who commences sacking the city.
Side B sends an element which then attacks the sacking element, and destroys it. DOES IT MOVE IN? ie like an assaulting element which has destroyed a defending ‘garrison or denizens’, effectively getting a free move into the city?
Per wording/R.A.W. the sacking defender in this case was neither ‘garrison’ nor ‘denizens’, so technically no.
Perhaps the wording might have been intended to let the secondary attacker leap the walls in the same way? Otherwise, an attacker who destroys a sacking defender might be told he a) has to enter or leave the city via a gateway (as suggested in the FAQs)? and b) has to wait til his next turn before he does so [and in the meantime another opponent might occupy that empty city, per point 2.]
Answers in a postcard…………
