Re: Judge snafus?

In fact, some people might say that coastal designations of orders must 
be present and matching in the original orders for the support order to 
be valid.

Steve wrote:
> > It only sucks when a player orders things like:
> >
> > F Gas - Spa
> > Por support Gas - Spa
> >
> > And then in the results this shows up:
> >
> > F Gas - Spa (north coast) (*BOUNCE*)
> > Por supports Gas - Spa (south coast) (*void*)
>
>
> This treatment of the judge selecting a coast for a player only occurs for
> fleets moving por-spa, mao-spa, or con-bul, and for any units supporting
> such moves.
>
>
> > The judge is really, really stupid there....and in the rules, it does
> > not make any sense to specify coasts. It just had to do:
> > Por S Gas-Spa (any coast).
>
>
> Eh, not everybody will agree with that. I think the rules are clearly
> ambiguous about this. My preferred interpretation is that coasts are
> required. From my perspective, it would be better for the judge to generate
> an error flag instead of the arbitrary spa/nc or bul/ec.
>
> Steve