Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: Shannon V. OKeets

So I am now at the point of seeing it as a poorly defined optional rule, that requires a lot of coding and play testing. I seem to have 4 choices: (1) keep it the way CWIF did, (2) remove it entirely, (3) do something quick and dirty, or (4) devote a bunch of time and energy to it. My mother always referred to option #3 as "a lick and a promise" - a reference to keeping my hair from sticking up in the back when I was a kid.

I continue to brood on this without reaching a definitive conclusion.

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ORIGINAL: Jeff Gilbert

I think I am in favor of having FOW as an optional rule for land combat units.
As far as implimentation, one genleman suggested a "house rule" he had played where only your top land unit was known until declaration of combat or airstrike.
I like this idea a lot as it would keep the factor counting crowd from shuffling an entire front to get the 1 or 2 more fators for the right shift.

Of course, it can always not be used if it were an optional rule.

My 2 cents.

[by the way, I may not post much but I read this forum almost daily and I must say that I am very impressed with the map work folk have done. All you guys are awsome]

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The house rule I mentioned where only the top unit was visible until an attack was mounted didn't apply only to land combat units - it applied to all units in a hex, whether they are land, sea or air units.

As long as we can sort unit stacks, this should be relatively easy to implement.