rbrunsman -> (2/15/2003 4:18:55 AM)
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Gary, what I meant about not hearing from someone for 3 days and then giving a 24 hour warning before forfeiture was not intended to mean you have to get a turn out every 3 days. I meant just plain not hearing from someone and not knowing what's going on. As an example: V2 and I just last week got crossed up on whose turn it was and a week went by before V2 asked me for the turn. If you have constant communications going then you always know where you stand in the game and valuable time isn't wasted. There is a 30 day time limit per round, after all. If I'm going on vacation this year, I should tell my opponent I'll be gone for a week and that wouldn't be considered grounds for a forfeit. If you get called up for active duty and won't be able to reach the internet, then I think you would have to forfeit in the interest of getting on with the rounds. As for On Board Arty, I think it was implied in Bel's statement that the reason On Board Arty is so powerful is that you can use ammo dumps and continuously reload them. Off Board Arty has the inherent limitation that you can't reload it so you have to be more judicious with your use of it. (Quoting Bel: "Arty does not make one great. :p ") As for playing more than one country. If someone has to play only one, then I guess that's OK, but I'll be switching countries to Axis or Allies in order to be the opposite of my opponent. And, I lost to V2 primarily because we played a low point value, late war H2H match (my first) with me as Germans (a heavy disadvantage, all would agree, I'm sure). (Not to mention I played poorly :o ). My loss to you certainly wasn't helped by learning the hard way that ski troops can't close assault, but I would mostly place it to the fact of your mortars landing every turn throughout the match with US speed and precision. Gary, I hope you don't feel like I've personally attacked you. I can only provide my thoughts based on my experiences in the first WC. So, since I didn't really lose to anyone else, my thoughts on improving the next one are mostly based on that loss. I can't really gripe about the wins I had can I? :)
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