Spidery
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Joined: 10/6/2012 From: Hampshire, UK Status: offline
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ORIGINAL: mike scholl 1 I agree with you "Hal", and it's the only way I've ever played. But there are those on the forum who insist "it's only a game", and use the "special move" to drive a bulldozer through reality. I just wondered if there was a simple way to make them pay the price history would have inflicted on them. If a player has the attitude they, presumably, won't object to the Allied player doing anything allowed by the game on the first turn. For example, forming task forces and emptying Pearl Harbor and Manila of ships, maybe even sending SCTF out to likely spots that CVs might be located. After that turn the game can start over with an agreement. I do think there is a difficulty in deciding what is possible. In an alternate reality where the Japanese did not strike at Pearl Harbor, I think we would be saying that a surprise strike there is totally unrealistic and should be disallowed. The Japanese could be allowed one implausible action (a strike at Pearl Harbor, finding the Allied CVs, landing at Mersing, etc.)
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