Re: [eia] someone's been eating my poridge and moving my corps!

["Kyle H" <menexenus@xxxxxxx>]

    No, this is the wrong conclusion to draw.  Don't say "next time I'll 
check with my ally before moving his forces."  Say instead that next time, 
you won't move his forces at all.  You'll let him do it.
    After all, in theory this game involves diplomacy.  And with diplomacy 
should come the possibility of *not* doing what you tell other people that 
you plan to do.  That is, Joel (or any player) should have the right to make 
whatever move they choose *regardless* of what they may have said to other 
players during diplomacy.  Some may call this style of play "stabbing your 
friends in the back."  Although many of us may eschew this style of play, it 
should still be a theoretical possibility!  However, this style of play 
becomes impossible if your allies get to make your moves for you!
    So, again, please do *not* move other player's forces, *regardless* of 
whether a "meeting of the minds" has been reached.

kdh


> Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa, I will check with my Ally before assuming a
> meeting of the minds is implemented specifically.
>
> Bill Jaffe
> Wargaming since Tactics (1958), and playing 18xx since 1829
> billj@xxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: eia-bounces@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:eia-bounces@xxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
> Joel
> Uckelman
> Sent: Friday, August 11, 2006 2:08 PM
> To: public list for an Empires in Arms game
> Subject: Re: [eia] someone's been eating my poridge and moving my corps!
>
> Thus spake "Bill Jaffe":
>> I thought we had previously discussed all this, which is why I went ahead
>> and moved the common forces.
>
> When I saw the orders, that's what I figured. In contract law, you have
> to have what they call a "meeting of the minds" in order to have a 
> contract.
> In this case, our minds didn't quite meet.
>
> I ran the numbers just now like I would normally have before a battle, and
> determined that I wouldn't have force-marched to Mantua---the additional
> factors would have been short of wiping out Massena's army on a bad
> combination with average rolls. Since the moves that Bill made are the
> ones that I would have made myself, there's nothing else to resolve here,
> other than that we should be careful about this in the future.
>
> -- 
> J.
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