Re: [eia] Battle & seige

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

I see you stole the thunder from my last email.  It's fine with me.

-JJY

----- Original Message -----
From: "Joel Uckelman" <uckelman@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <eia@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, November 18, 2002 5:32 PM
Subject: Re: [eia] Battle & seige


> Thus spake menexenus@xxxxxxx:
> >
> >    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 the
> > y
> > 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.
>
> This occurred to me when conducting my last battle, and I worried about it
> until I realized that there's an easy way to handle Outflank. If you're
> going to outflank, divide your forces when you make your chit selection.
> The only situation in which this would reveal more information than
> resolving a battle in realtime is in the event of a successful withdrawal,
> as the reveal forces step is after the withdrawal step. Is this an
> acceptable solution?
>
> --
> J.
>
>
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