Re: [eia] Land Phase

[Michael Gorman <mpgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 09:37 PM 12/19/2002 -0600, you wrote:
>         Okay, from what I'm hearing from JJ and Kyle they had a recent 
> discussion over what seemed like odd actions being taken by my 
> forces.  JJ pointed out a rule I had missed that says that if Russia 
> loses St. Petersburg it's the same as losing Moscow and Russia is 
> hosed.  I missed that rule as it makes so very little sense to me that I 
> never went looking for it, but that's another story.
>
>         Anyway, what they seem to have discussed is letting Russia move 
> Bagraton and his corps back to defend St. Petersburg rather than 
> preparing to fight a land war in Asia and letting Jeff build his depot in 
> Warsaw as if it had existed last turn and then let him use his original 
> land orders and siege rolls.  No, I will not accept the original siege 
> rolls without this compromise or something akin to it.
>         Similarly, if people want to take the land orders as they 
> currently stand, I'm willing to do so and deal with the consequences, 
> which is obviously to the advantage of the coalition.
>
>         I don't really care and I'll roll with whatever we end up doing.
>
> Mike

        Okay, I've changed my mind.  I think we should go with the land 
orders as they are as it is too much of a pain in the ass to rewrite them 
all.  If we move my corps back to St. Petersburg we have to let Spain and 
Britain decide if they want to change their orders, if Prussia wants to 
rewrite theirs anymore and if Turkey didn't do anything because St. 
Petersburg was not well defended.
        If we assume a Prussian depot in Warsaw last turn I might want to 
do something different as I would know Prussia could penetrate into Russia 
faster as they would have a border depot this turn rather than next turn 
and I don't want to spend anymore time rethinking my orders and then having 
to let everyone else rethink theirs.  We spent a week on the phase, we made 
another set of mistakes, let's move on and not make the same mistakes next 
time.  Be merciful to the countries that actually did everything right.

Mike


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