J.J. Young on Sun, 1 Aug 2004 11:14:06 -0500 (CDT)


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Re: [eia] France jumped the gun!


Danny, is there anything you're waiting on to send out your naval orders ?
You've sent emails a couple of times now since it's been your turn to go.
I'm just wondering if there's anything the rest of us can do.

-JJY

----- Original Message -----
From: "D Mount" <mount324@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "public list for an Empires in Arms game" <eia@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, August 01, 2004 8:59 AM
Subject: Re: [eia] France jumped the gun!


> Just to give you all a heads up.  The Spanish naval phase will not change
from anything France has done.  Just wanted to let you all have a heads up
in case we decide to keep what we have already done.
> -Danny
>
> "J.J. Young" <jjy@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Just to clarify; no one insisted on anything. In talking, I asked Jim not
> to take his land phase before Spain's naval phase in the future, since GB
is
> at war with both France and Spain, now. I should point out that having any
> power at war with two others at the same time has only come up in the
> present game since Spain declared war on Turkey in September. Jim
> volunteered to reroll the seige of Brest (and also to roll the siege he
> hadn't rolled yet, at La Rochelle) if the Spanish naval phase hadn't
already
> gone out, which it hasn't. Again, I didn't require Jim to do this, only to
> watch out for the problem in the future. Jim wanted to set things right
for
> the present turn, if it could be done without making Danny change orders
he
> had already sent out. That's what happened.
>
> -JJY
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Gorman"
> To: "public list for an Empires in Arms game"
> Sent: Sunday, August 01, 2004 2:04 AM
> Subject: Re: [eia] France jumped the gun!
>
>
> > At 08:06 PM 7/31/2004 -0400, you wrote:
> > >JJ brought it to my attention today that I had sent out France's land
> > >orders too early. I informed JJ that I am willing to completely re-do
> the
> > >battle at Brest ( including the decision to fight or retire to the
city)
> > >so that Spain will not have knowledge of the outcome of this conflict
> > >prior to sending out his naval orders.
> > >
> > >Also at that time I will request die rolls for the siege at LaRochelle
> and
> > >announce movement for the Egyptian corps.
> > >
> > >Sorry for the confusion, guys.
> > >JRH
> > >_______________________________________________
> >
> > If we're going to set this standard then we're going to have to insist
> that
> > no one send out orders early ever again. If the standard is that someone
> > can ask you to reroll your entire turn because they would have liked you
> to
> > wait versus our previous standard of send your orders out when
everything
> > you care about is complete, then we pretty much have no choice but to
> > insist everyone wait until it is their turn to send out an order.
> >
> > This is a pretty major deviation from our norm to let someone request
that
> > an opponent reroll a completed turn for pretty much no reason. There
were
> > no errors in the French orders and the 90 some odd ships off Madrid are
> > probably just a touch more important to the Spanish navy than the
probably
> > token fleet relieving Brest about 15 spaces from the nearest Spanish
fleet
> > that could do anything about it.
> >
> > Mike
> >
> >
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