I don't know that I'd blame RP for this one. There are those who believe that if you NMR you NMRfor the entire season which means retreats are off the board. I think that may actually be in the rules,
I'm just not sure of the exact wording.
Made me look. LOL. Here it is:I checked the 1976 edition and the 2000 edition of the rules. The wording is slightly different, but
not enough to change the meaning at all.
Under Civil Disorder:If a player leaves a game, or fails to
submit orders in a given spring or fall season, it is assumed that the civil government in his country has collapsed. His units hold in place but do not support each other. If they are
dislodged they are disbanded. It goes on, but that's the relevant part.
So, RP is, in fact, correct in it's adjudication.
The rules can be selected here
iplomacy Rules
Diplomacy Rules Diplomacy Rules Early
draft of the Rules (when the game was still called Realpolitik) (c) 1958 Allan
B. Calhamer PDF File (424 Kb) Diplomacy
Rules (c) 1959...View on www.diplomacy-archi...Preview by Yahoo
On Monday, July 21, 2014 11:52 PM, John Smith wrote:
Ok gentlemen, we have a small adjustment, although this one can be blamed on the Realpolitik tool, which
I was under the impression was infallible. Turns out, it is not. The adjustment is thankfully minor, England should have been able to retreat from the North Sea rather than be disbanded, and he has retreated to Skagerrak. Map is attached.