I did report it on facebook - I just want to make sure it's not a problem on here as well.

I believe this is a legal support. A fleet in the Gulf of Bothnia can support an attack to the St. Pete's North coast. Same goes for Bulgaria. Anyone here varify that?

It is a legal for the same reason a fleet in western med can support hold in Spain even if it is a Fleet Spain NC ( I think)

wait, really? I thought you could only support an attack (or hold for that matter) to a location that the supporting unit could actually move to itself?

... How's that for a convoluted sentence? :)

Yes, this can't be right...

Since the piece can move to Spain it is still a legal move.

I'm checking offical rules. I'll let you know in a second

Alright I have a direct quote from the rule book

A fleet that can move to a province with two seperate coasts (a fleet in the Mid-Atlantic, for example) can support another Army or Fleet into that province (in this case Spain), without regard to seperate coastlines.

That was taken right from the Avalon Hill rulebook.

The rulebook as spoken. All hail the rulebook.

Yes, I just looked it up myself - looks like I had a Huge Misunderstanding of the rules =)

It will certainly impact this game... and did you really need to bring ANOTHER army against England? Seems like 3 on 1 might have been enough... ;-)

No worries, jacob... its always good to get a rules refresher, especially on ones that don't quite make sense :)

The rules for support require that you be adjacent to the province and be able to move to that province directly. As such since you can move to Spain you can support an attack on either of Spain's coast.

There have been discussions everytime a new rule book comes out of making some changes to this rule, however not on the issue of being able to support only to the coast that you can reach but the discussions always turn on whether you can specify ONLY one coast for the support to be valid on. For example as Italy I would support England to Spain NorthCoast but not south coast. However under rules as written (forever) I cannot specify that the support is only valid for one coast.
By the way this could have been changed in the last rewrite but a change in the editing of the final draft did not pick up on that change...

This rule doesn't seem consistent with the way support works in general.

I think it does.
After all, to support a unit in, all the second unit has to do is be able to also attack the territory. I think of it that if a territory is attacked on both the north and south coasts, it has to split it's defensive forces in two, and thus isn't able to hold off the attack.

Yes, I suppose thinking of it that way would help - it's not exactly intuitive though. But hey, I won't get too hung up on it! =)

If this were inconsistent... think about how an army in Moscow would support troops that are entering St.P from Norway 1000 miles away. It's basically the same.

Well - I meant it was inconsistent with the other rules, not with real life =)

:-)

> This rule doesn't seem consistent with the way support works in general.

if a fleet in norway can support an army from moscow to stp, why wouldn't it be able to support a fleet to stp south coast??

...i think it is more consistent this way

The idea of support is that you help the attacking army by "outflanking" the defender... so it makes perfect sense! The supporting army distracts the defender, while the invading army forces them out.