Can you convoy through denmark

Questions should only request rules be clarified and not request advice about how to resolve a situation. When answering a question, members should restrict themselves to answering the question and not give advice on how to get around the situation. I would like confirmation that the answer is 'yes' to both. Much appreciated. Denmark is a land space in diplomacy. It is not possible to convoy through it at all. You cannot move from the North sea to the Baltic without stopping off in Denmark or Norway or Sweden first.

Re: Convoy through Denmark by rick. Therefore, as kian said, Denmark is seen as a land area and fleets can only convoy at sea. World Diplomacy Forum.

These land spaces are identified by the channel of water that goes through them. For example, a fleet could move from the Aegean Sea through Constantinople to the Black Sea in two moves, as long as those spaces were unoccupied. In Diplomacy, there are two types of units: Armies and Fleets. An army can travel in land spaces and coastal land spaces, and a fleet can travel in sea spaces and coastal land spaces.

Although all of the supply centers are on land, only seven supply centers are completely landlocked. Fleets are important to convoy armies across water, support coastal battles, create a blockade on sea spaces so that other fleets cannot expand, etc. Some countries can live without fleets since they are nearly landlocked geographically. Such countries include Russia, Germany, and especially Austria. On the other hand, English fleets are absolutely necessary since without them England cannot convoy armies to the mainland.

All units in Diplomacy move only one space at a time and only one unit may occupy any space at any time. The exception to this rule comes in the form of a successful convoy, where a convoyed army may travel multiple spaces depending on the length of the chain created by the convoying fleets. A convoyed army must embark from a coastal land province and land at a coastal land province. Gameplay begins in the year , and there are two moves or Movement Phases per year, one in Spring , and one in Fall.

At each Movement Phase, players may order each unit either to hold its position, to attack or move to another province, or to support another unit either to hold its position or to attack a province. Fleets may also be ordered to convoy armies across bodies of water to coastal provinces. This is the default for all units what they will do if not given any other orders. The unit will stay in its position, and will not move, support, convoy, or do anything.

Holding units can be supported by units in neighboring provinces or be attacked by foreign units. If the attacking unit has more units supporting it than the holding unit, the holding unit is ousted from that province and must either retreat or disband see above.

This order moves the unit in one province to an adjacent province. Of course, armies cannot move into sea provinces, and fleets cannot move into landlocked provinces. A unit may not move into a province held by another unit unless it has support. As units may be supported either in attacking a province or in holding a province, the attacking unit must have more support than the defending unit if the attack is to be successful. If the attack is not successful, the attacking unit does not move anywhere.

Army Venice and Fleet Trieste do not move, unless either are attacked or defended by stronger support. When two units with equal support try to move into the same destination province, for instance:. Neither of the two units can go into Tyrolia.

Again, this is assuming that these two units are the only two units in this little battle, and that they have equal support for their moves. Support is the trickiest aspect of the rules, and the most important of the game.

Support may involve cooperation between two or more powers, and is the only way to make forward progress through enemy territory unless you can convince the enemy to let you in. Simply put, more support defeats less support. The support order is given in reference to another unit's move. That other unit's move must be to a province into which the supporting unit could otherwise move. Support may also be given to a unit holding its position.

In addition, units giving support can themselves be supported in their holding position. Support is a unit's sole action for a given move, and supporting units remain where they are unless they are attacked by greater support and have to retreat or disband during the retreat phase. Cutting Support: If the supporting unit is attacked during the turn by some other unit, its support is cut. In effect, the support order becomes a hold order, as the unit must defend its province against the attack.

Note that a unit occupying the province into which the support is directed cannot cut support, unless its attack successfully dislodges the supporting unit. NB: Below are complete orders as submitted by all 7 Powers for the Fall campaign season of a made-up game to help you understand the intricacies of supporting and breaking support.

Having a game map to look on with is highly recommended; the one provided at the top of this page is adequate. Note that in this case the order for Munich to support Ruhr into Holland would not work because Munich does not border Holland and thus cannot support Ruhr in Munich could, however, support Ruhr if Ruhr were simply holding. The rule for supporting an attack is that a supporting unit must border the province being attacked, but need not border the attacker's province of origin to support a unit to hold, however, the supporting unit must border the supported unit.

Essentially, the supporting unit must border the destination of the supported unit, whether it is its own province or a new province entirely. In sum, Ruhr is actually attacking Holland with the support of only one unit Fleet Kiel. Here, Army Prussia is supported by one unit, and Army Silesia is supported by one unit. The last two moves are legal, and this method of double-support is helpful when there are two units that both could be attacked and dislodged.

Of course, if both units are attacked, the support fails. Note that the convoying fleet is not considered to be giving support, so Army London actually has support from only one unit: Fleet Heligoland-Bight. Army London, on the other hand, see above is supported in its attack on Holland by one unit Fleet Heligoland-Bight , thereby enabling Army London to be convoyed successfully into Holland, as long as Fleet North Sea is not dislodged during the convoy.