Able to bypass blockade entering port

[Dancing Bear]

I'm pretty sure this is a bug, but can you guys confirm my interpretation of the rules?

In a recent game an enemy fleet was able tp bypass my blockading force and enter the port (where upon it combined with the blockaded force and then the combined enemy force crushed my blockade).

I believe, the relieving force should have first fought my blockading force before entering the port, correct? Not after it had entered the port.

[ndrose]

Actually, I think that is correct.

6.2.3.1.2.1: A fleet entering a port (which must always be done through a blockade box-see 6.2.1.2) may not be intercepted unless the phasing player announces that he wishes to be intercepted. This is an exception to the rule of automatic interception in a blockade box.

and

6.2.3.2.1.3: Since a phasing stack must enter a port to add fleets in that port to the stack and fleets entering a port may avoid blockade box interception (see 6.2.3.1.2.1), a phasing player wishing to add a fleet or fleets in a port to a stack has a choice of how to handle a blockade box interception situation. The phasing player may announce a wish to be intercepted in the blockade box and fight an interception combat before entering the port to add the fleets there or may avoid interception in the blockade box and then (if movement isn't concluded in the port) move the combined stack from the port to the blockade box for an automatic (if interception is desired by the enemy) naval combat then.

[Dancing Bear]

Thanks Ndrose. Time for me to redeploy my fleet.