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For Union units, sea supply offers another supply path option besides tracing to an Aligned Recruitment City? Namely, tracing to a friendly port box?
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Patrick Carroll
United States
Carver
Minnesota
"If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly." (GK Chesterton)
"That's how the light gets in." (Leonard Cohen)
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Assuming you're talking about the 3rd edition advanced rules:
Quote: Sea Supply: Union and Foreign Intervention units in port boxes, or that are able to trace a Supply Line to a friendly port box, are automatically in supply by sea (even if the Foreign Navy is 'off,' F.4). Exception: When using Optional Rule 4.71 (Fortress Monroe), the Union may not trace supply to either Yorktown or Norfolk if the Confederates control Fort Monroe.
So, generally speaking, the answer to your question is yes.
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Thanks, Patrick. Might get a chance to play this tonight.
In the same section of the 3rd ed. advanced rules, B.2, it speaks of "friendly-controlled" and "friendly-owned". What's the difference?
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Patrick Carroll
United States
Carver
Minnesota
"If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly." (GK Chesterton)
"That's how the light gets in." (Leonard Cohen)
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No difference. See 8.0:
Quote: Procedure and Timing: A player ‘captures’ (‘owns’ and /or ‘controls’) a box by having at least one unit there at the end of his friendly Combat Segment.
The exception is that cavalry only controls a box as long as it's present there; control reverts to the previous owner if the cavalry moves away.
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Then I'm not quite sure on the distinction between Normal Supply (rails/rivers) and Road Supply. Maybe it'll be clear when I have the map in front of me.
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Patrick Carroll
United States
Carver
Minnesota
"If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly." (GK Chesterton)
"That's how the light gets in." (Leonard Cohen)
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Well, let's see. You mean this:
Quote: Normal Supply: It may be freely traced through friendly-controlled boxes along rails and/or rivers.
Road Supply: It may also be traced through boxes along roads, but only if the boxes on both ends of each length of the road transportation line being traced through are either: A) friendly-owned and of that side’s color (i.e., within the original territory of that side); or B) occupied by at least one friendly unit (having forces in captured territory providing logistical support).
Normal Supply should be clear enough--as long as all the connectors are rails or rivers, the boxes along the path just need to be friendly (i.e., controlled, or owned, by you).
Road Supply is trickier: If the connecting path along a given leg of your supply route is a road (not a rail or river), then it's not enough for the boxes at either end of the road to be friendly (controlled, or owned, by you); each box has to be either of your own color or occupied by one of your units. So, if you're the Union player, a vacant friendly blue box can be a road link in the supply chain; and any blue, gray, or neutral box can also be used, provided you have a unit there.
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Thanks, Patrick. I saw your post before we started our game, and it cleared things up.
Just finished a bit ago. The game culminated in a massive charge on Washington by my Confederate opponent. In hindsight, he should have maybe come in from the north, because that river bonus those first two rounds for the Union was devastating. Despite his attacking force having superior numbers, the Union held out through about 7 rounds of battle and eliminated every last rebel. The Confederates, decimated, conceded.
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