Re: [eia] Turkish land phase, July '05

[Michael Gorman <mpgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 07:08 PM 7/8/2004 -0400, you wrote:
> Are you talking about me again, Mike?  :)    Well, for what it's worth here
> is my opinion.  I don't think that anyone is trying to gain an unfair
> advantage here, but I don't see this as an obvious "this is what was
> intended" scenario.  In the same situation I would ask that the original
> orders stand.  Chalk it up to miscommunication with the front lines or
> something.  It seems a simple enough mistake, with the E and the W right
> next to each other, but once both sides have moved and dice have been rolled
> we should try not to revise our orders unless an illegal move was made which
> demands some amount of correction, and even then making the least amount of
> changes possible while trying to preserve the obvious intent.  (deep breath
> here!).  Ultimately, I think the decision is up to Joel and Kyle (or
> affected persons in the future).  And, please, whatever feathers are ruffled
> in the process, let's remember to remain civil!
> JRH

It was one of your orders, but I don't think that is the important 
issue.  I think we established that we are going to be very lenient on 
mistakes that are made and therefore should continue to be so.  I've 
actually come to be much more in favor of that policy than I was then since 
the push to move faster has become so strong.  If we are going to push for 
orders to come out fast, we're going to increase the number of errors and 
therefore increase the number of instances when someone realizes they 
forgot a move and simply never had time to correct it since other people 
jumped in with their responses the minute the first order came out.

As to Kyle's request to keep his forage rolls.  Well, it's once again in 
line with what we have done in the past.  He didn't use this to take any 
truly bizarre moves and none of his forage results were worse than a 4- and 
he's been risking that level of forage roll throughout the game.

I think both Joel's request that the move he made on his map be allowed 
since in fact he had no real chance to correct the mistake and Kyle's that 
he not have to reroll are reasonable.  Neither of them are asking for any 
moves that are unusual for their situation and it seems quite probable to 
me that the final troop positions are what they would have been had none of 
the errors been made.

If any of this had happened away from the front of a big war, no one would 
have blinked at what is being asked for.  We've all amended orders several 
times well after our turn in the order has passed.

Mike


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