Re: [eia] British naval phase, 12/06 (part II)

["Kyle H" <menexenus@xxxxxxx>]

    Just so that we are all clear on the rules, when the Russians lose this
battle (which they initiated), do they get retreated as usual, or do the
British get an opportunity to hammer on them again?

kdh

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joel Uckelman" <uckelman@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "public list for an Empires in Arms game" <eia@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, February 28, 2005 5:46 PM
Subject: Re: [eia] British naval phase, 12/06 (part II)


> Thus spake "J.J. Young":
> > On at least some of the occasions when I have misunderstood the rules
and my
> > interests suffered as a result, I have chosen to just take my lumps.  I
> > figured that it wasn't the other guy's problem that I had misread the
> > situation.
>
> We take a different approach to this, obviously. It's virtually always
> the case that I'm willing to accept adjustments for rules
misunderstandings.
> I think it makes for a better game experience that way, since often
'taking
> one's lumps' due to rules misunderstandings can be catastrophic; and in a
> seven player game, that affects everyone, not just the player whose lumps
> they are. In order to have a good game, we each depend on everyone else to
> make reasonable moves. If I'm laboring under a misconception about the
rules,
> then I'm bound to make moves which aren't reasonable. So if there's an
> obvious way to correct the problem once it becomes apparent, I think that
> justified.
>
> > Having gotten that off my chest (although I probably shouldn't have said
> > it), I don't want to seem unreasonable, so I withdraw my objection.  The
> > wind guage and combat rolls for my first two fleets are on their way.
>
> I don't see any reason for you not to have said that. I think we just
> disagree on the best way to handle these sorts of situations, and now
> it's plain for me that we do in fact disagree.
>
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