Larry
Elder Member
A. The question is whether a unit can rout via a path that uses more than the minimum MF. The answer is yes.
B. The second question is whether a unit can rout where we know from player omniscience that the unit won't get there. The unit does not know that because the barrier is not KEU. The example cited by Klas from the ASLRB says yes. The ASLRB states that instances will occur where the unit will have to refigure the rout destination.
If the unit can take the longer path which will become barred by later discovery of a KEU, unit can take advantage of both rules. When the unit in the example starts the rout to O6 and then discovers R6, the combination of rules permit him to take that rout and to refigure. He can do A, he can do B, therefore he can do A and B.
Stewart frames it as an oops. Robin frames it as manipulation. I think that this is one of the instances where you can manipulate the rout to get further away because COWTRA permits A and B.
B. The second question is whether a unit can rout where we know from player omniscience that the unit won't get there. The unit does not know that because the barrier is not KEU. The example cited by Klas from the ASLRB says yes. The ASLRB states that instances will occur where the unit will have to refigure the rout destination.
If the unit can take the longer path which will become barred by later discovery of a KEU, unit can take advantage of both rules. When the unit in the example starts the rout to O6 and then discovers R6, the combination of rules permit him to take that rout and to refigure. He can do A, he can do B, therefore he can do A and B.
Stewart frames it as an oops. Robin frames it as manipulation. I think that this is one of the instances where you can manipulate the rout to get further away because COWTRA permits A and B.