Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: DCWhitworth

IIRC the modifier for other corps being in the area does not state that they have to be foraging.

However such a button would be useful for planning purposes. One issue I have with the game is that there is too much counting on your fingers, e.g. foraging - when a unit can successfully forage it simply says "auto !" with no indication of how much the roll would be made by, so you either have to count up manually or repeatedly undo.

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ORIGINAL: Mardonius

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ORIGINAL: DCWhitworth

IIRC the modifier for other corps being in the area does not state that they have to be foraging.

However such a button would be useful for planning purposes. One issue I have with the game is that there is too much counting on your fingers, e.g. foraging - when a unit can successfully forage it simply says "auto !" with no indication of how much the roll would be made by, so you either have to count up manually or repeatedly undo.

That is true DC and something that I did not catch. I was going for the intent of the rule though and still think the concept has validity as if two of the corps in the above example are feeding from supply they would not impact the forage result of the remaining two corps.

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ORIGINAL: bresh
Sorry to say but if you want to follow EIA.rules even corps who pay supply do affect forage results..........

Regards
Bresh

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ORIGINAL: Marshall Ellis
Mardonius:
I will defer to your training/experience for the most part but in my studies of the 19th century military history it seemed to me that discipline was often good early in Nap's career but was not so when the masses were hungry. The victorius French (AND others) tended to loot/forage where they could. This was often overlooked by leadership. This maybe could be a constant for all wars since examples for looting/foraging could probably be found in every war.

You are correct that some rules may have been a little vague and maybe this is one BUT if it could go either way then I'm inclined to leave as is for now BUT open to listening more points...

JMO of course..

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ORIGINAL: Mardonius

Respectfully Gents, any army that is disciplined enough to have soldiers fed in the field is disciplined enough to keep those men from interfering with forage type operations. Trust me on this from 18 years of both training and combat experience.

Avalon Hill was making a justification for a badly worded rule. Think about it this way: If you are an officer whose troops are not being fed, are you going to let officers who troops are being fed interfere with your troops welfare? Will your soldiers abide this? If they did get in the way, there would be violence.

I implore you to consider common sense on this one. Harry Rowland himself has often commented that some of the rules were not well written so please consider the intent, which is the more forager the less available food per foragers. NOn foragers should not effect this.

Thanks
Mardonius

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ORIGINAL: Jimmer

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ORIGINAL: Mardonius

Respectfully Gents, any army that is disciplined enough to have soldiers fed in the field is disciplined enough to keep those men from interfering with forage type operations. Trust me on this from 18 years of both training and combat experience.

Avalon Hill was making a justification for a badly worded rule. Think about it this way: If you are an officer whose troops are not being fed, are you going to let officers who troops are being fed interfere with your troops welfare? Will your soldiers abide this? If they did get in the way, there would be violence.
I implore you to consider common sense on this one. Harry Rowland himself has often commented that some of the rules were not well written so please consider the intent, which is the more forager the less available food per foragers. NOn foo ragers should not effect this.
Thanks
Mardonius

While you have a historical point, you're still wrong. If this were true, then the game should have no cap on the number of corps that count. The cap is a game construction to limit the effect and so is the modifier for extra corps. They just limit things on opposite ends. In the name of realism, are you willing to remove the cap along with the rules for extra corps?