Re: [eia] I still have a problem

[Michael Gorman <mpgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 06:21 PM 3/29/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>     Again, I don't care much about this and am willing to concede.  If you
> guys want to do combined movement separate from the escrow, I can live with
> that.
>
> kdh

I'm not entirely comfortable with the us too email, nor am I happy with 
requiring Austria to combine with everyone Prussia combines with in order 
to combine with Prussia.  That Prussia didn't offer to combine with Austria 
and has stated he meant to do that makes the current turn less important to 
me but I very much wanted Prussia and Austria to make their decision 
without knowing if I was combined with France.  If they can alter their 
combined movement phase after knowing mine, then I would want to be able to 
alter mine after they alter theirs which in turn should allow them to alter 
theirs after I alter mine in response to them altering theirs and so 
on.  We can get into an endless recursion of combined movement phases if 
the results of knowing what someone else is doing will alter what you do.

In this turn, if Austria and Prussia are not combined, I want to combine 
with France.  If they are combined, I have to really think about it.  I 
took a shot at hoping Austria wouldn't risk going into instability and 
getting potentially screwed in an economic phase and would wait a turn to 
declare war.  They didn't wait, but their lack of combined movement is very 
important to me.  If they can alter that after declaration, then I want to 
be able to respond to that alteration and cannot really say they can't 
respond in kind.  So, depending on what their plans are, combined movement 
phase will continue forever if we allow changes after revealing declaration.

Mike


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