[ASLML] A control question

[Tate Rogers]

On Tuesday, January 20, 2004 4:43 PM, Bruce Bakken 
[SMTP:bebakken at hotmail.com] wrote:
> Hi, Sam.
>
> >
> >Getting ready to play "First to Strike" from Streets of Fire. This is an
> >older scenario, an looks dead even in ROAR. I have an opinion 
question...
> >
> >The VC state that the Germans must "solely control" a number of 
buildings
> >to
> >win. This phrase appears in a few of the older scenarios - made before 
we
> >all became so warped as to insist that all terms be defined in the 
index.
> >:)
> >
> >How do you interpret "solely control" with regard to a building?
> >
>
> To me, this means Building Control, per A26.14.
>
> >1. Building control (which would allow enemy units to be present in the
> >building)
> >
>
> Huh?  To control a Building, you must first have "an armed, Good Order
> Infantry MMC at any non-rooftop, non-subterranean level of any hex of a
> building... as long as the conditions of 26.11 are fulfilled." (A26.14). 

> Per A26.11, "a side gains Control of a ... building by occupying it with 
an
> armed Good Order Infantry MMC without the presence of an armed enemy 
ground
> unit... in that same... building."  If an enemy unit is present in the
> building, you do not control it.
>
> >2. Building control AND there can be no enemy units in the building
> >
>
> If you control the building, by definition there can be no enemy units in 

> the building.  See above.

FYI...

When one gains control of the building no enemy units can be present in the 
building. However, once control is gained enemy units can come and go in 
that building without changing control. The opposition would have to clear 
the building of all your units to change control.

IOW, one can have control of a building even if there are enemy units in 
the building...as long as you still have at least one armed unit in said 
building.

The term "sole control" is simple laziness. The designer didn't want to go 
to the trouble to explain what was meant. In fact, there is no other way to 
control a building other than "solely" since only one side or the other 
will control the building.

I suspect the designer _intended_ that not only must control the building 
but that no enemy units can be in the controlled building. Unfortunately 
"sole control" is not nearly enough to say that.

Later-

Tater (One Mean Spud!)