Re: [eia] Battle & seige

["J.J. Young" <jjy@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Obviously, I wasn't online last night and missed your email, Kyle.  Sorry
about that.
When choosing OUTFLANK, is there a reason not to just send the division of
forces along with the chit choice ?  If the division doesn't end up
happening, due to CORDON or something, so what ?  For that matter, we could
just always reveal forces as part of the chit choice escrow.

-JJY
----- Original Message -----
From: <menexenus@xxxxxxx>
To: <eia@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, November 18, 2002 3:13 PM
Subject: Re: [eia] Battle & seige


>    No need to apologize JJ.  I didn't think you were trying to be sneaky.
I
> just want to find a general procedure for beginning field battles that
doesn't
> require us to tip our hands too soon.
>    First off, I should say that I take Mike's point that escrow battles
need
> not be thrown off by the presence of something like a guard corps.  The
escrow
> is only used for the chit choice.  After that, forces are revealed and it
will
> be apparent whether a guard corps is present.  So I realize now that the
> presence of a guard corps is a non-issue with respect to using the escrow
to
> take care of battles.
>    However, I am still generally opposed to using escrow to resolve (most)
> battles and here's why:  if one side chooses Outflank, they are supposed
to
> split their force *before* finding out what their opponent's strategy was.
> When we use escrow, both parties will find out the other's strategy
> simultaneously.  This gives players who choose Outflank an advantage that
they
> weren't designed to have.  Since Outflank is a very realistic choice for
the
> French in most cases, I will generally want to use a method other than
escrow
> for battles involving more than one corps.
>    (I suppose use of OpenRPG is not strictly necessary to solve this
problem.
> Opposing players could email their strategies to a third player who could
> report the results back to them as dictated by the rules.  Then die rolls
could
> take place as usual via pbm.  I guess I just like OpenRPG because the
entire
> battle can be handled in one sitting and because you get to chat with your
> opponent during lulls in the action.)
>
>    Ok, to answer JJ's question, I'll be home tonight at around 8 pm
(Eastern).
>  Would you (JJ) be available to meet online at that time?  Would someone
else
> also be available to receive our emails and report the chit choices back
to us?
>
> kdh
> > I wasn't trying to be sneaky; just trying to avoid waiting until we can
find
> > a mutual time.  Sorry.  When could you meet ?
> >
> > -JJY
> >
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