First, remember that Spring 2011 comes our way tomorrow at 9 eastern, so
get those final orders in!

Second, a player brought to my attention a situation that is not
currently addressed in the rules, and I subsequently noticed a later
one. The rules state that a unit in an ice territory which is changing
state may be ordered to hold or support, and that those moves will
succeed; then the unit will be disbanded. However, the rules do not
specify exactly when the unit is disbanded, which raises two questions.
First, if such a unit is dislodged, can it retreat? And second, if such
a unit is in a supply center, does it assimilate the supply center
before it is disbanded? The rules state that the change of territory
state occurs "happens in the middle of the movement phase as the units
move." Thus the answer to both of these questions is no, for the ice or
water, whichever is applicable, that the unit would need to retreat to
an adjacent territory is gone by the time the retreat phase comes, and
for the same reason the unit would no longer exist by the time
assimilation occurs at the end of the retreat phase.

Matt