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 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > eia mailing list > > eia@xxxxxxxxx > > http://lists.ellipsis.cx/mailman/listinfo/eia > > > > _______________________________________________ > eia mailing list > eia@xxxxxxxxx > http://lists.ellipsis.cx/mailman/listinfo/eia > > > --------------------------------- > Do you Yahoo!? > New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages! > _______________________________________________ > eia mailing list > eia@xxxxxxxxx > http://lists.ellipsis.cx/mailman/listinfo/eia > _______________________________________________ eia mailing list eia@xxxxxxxxx http://lists.ellipsis.cx/mailman/listinfo/eia