Imperial RomeBall ,
Polenbal Review this thread plus the link to the PDF for the gamebook rules. It's a bit LONG, but it can be helpful to go over every little thing (if it's your style).
I will explain the convoy part here in my own words.
Important reminder:Okay, from the support example on the first page... You have two different orders for two units, but they MUST match each other. Convoy and Support shares this aspect very much so (VERY important part to remember).
Okay now to start off... Who can conduct a convoy and who can be convoyed:
In simple form when dealing with only 1 fleet, 1 army...
A fleet in a sea space, NOT in a coastal space, can carry an army from one neighboring coast to another coast.
An army in a coastal space MAY cross over that sea space and move into a different coastal area that is also neighboring the same sea space where the fleet is.
Note: The army and the fleet doesn't have to belong to the same player. International aid in terms of support or convoy orders can be done in the spirit of cooperation between different players.
Example:
Fleet Mediterranean Sea Convoy Army Spain to Morocco
Army Spain to Morocco
What can't happenWhat cannot happen is that the fleet doing the convoy cannot be also moving around to a different sea space or doing a support order at the same time. Make sense? That fleet must devote its time to conduct a convoy.
Example:F North Sea Convoy and Support A London to Denmark
A London to North Sea to Denmark
both fail due to Fleet North Sea being given multiple orders.A fleet cannot convoy more than one army even if both armies are bordering the same sea space and wants to go to different locations without bouncing each other. That fleet still has to deal with only one convoy for one phase.
Example:
Fleet North Sea Convoy Army London to Denmark
Fleet North Sea Convoy Army Belgium to NorwaySorry, one job at a time, buddy. Both orders for that fleet fails.Also, a convoy cannot occur when the orders for the army and fleet doesn't match up. The fleet cannot simply take an army against its wishes and send it somewhere else than its own original written destination. So no kidnapping.
An enemy bounce on the fleet cannot disrupt the convoy (to actually disrupt the convoying, the fleet has to be actually dislodged from the spot) but a bounce at the destination will bounce the army back to its own original coastal space where it was before the convoy was conducted. The Fleet's convoy order technically is still working, so only the army's order will be
stricken through to show that the order is not executed; the move didn't work. And of course, IF the fleet was dislodged, both of the orders for the fleet and army is
stricken through. A retreat phase would follow after the movement phase for the owner of the fleet.
What can happen
Let say if somebody has more than one fleet lining up in adjacent sea spaces and one army waiting at one end of the chain, can the army be convoyed across multiple sea spaces and land onto the opposite side of a large ocean? Yes, that convoy can happen, but each one of the involved fleets has to have a convoy order and nothing else contradicting. All fleets and the army's orders must be identical, relatively speaking.
Format of the Convoy Orders
They're pretty similar to the Support Orders in syntax. Like this so:
A FRA S A BEL - GER (Army France Supports Army Belgium to Germany)
A BEL - GER (Army Belgium goes to Germany)
The supporting French army remains in France but lends its support to the Belgians, The Belgian army enters Germany (assuming that the enemy didn't have a supported unit standing off at Germany).Let's get started with the syntax of the basic convoy order, they should look like this:
Fleet CurrentLocation C (or Convoy) _______________
The blank line is the entire line of the Army's Order.Army CurrentLocation to FleetCurrentLocation to ArmyDestination
The part where you mention the sea space in the middle is optional, but the beginning and the end is not optional and is required.
Two valid example sets of orders:
F MED C A SPA - MED - MOR
A SPA - MED - MOR
considered the same asF MED C A SPA - MOR
A SPA - MOR
Multiple Sea Spaces Convoy Example:
Assuming WES means Western Atlantic, MID for Middle Atlantic, EAS for Eastern Atlantic only for this exampleF WES C A NYC - IRE
F MID C A NYC - IRE
F EAS C A NYC - IRE
A NYC - IRE
Things can get confusing when dealing with long-distance convoys, so it's recommended but not required to include the sea spaces which the route passes through.
So this format is probably more clear for the GM to figure out what you're doing with your units...
F WES C A NYC - IRE
F MID C A NYC - IRE
F EAS C A NYC - IRE
A NYC - WES - MID - EAS - IRE
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