<t> Hi StCyr,<br/>
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Although I understand that each of you is very anxious to see the state of the game, as a tester I can assure you that in the last 6 or so months nothing has changed in the graphical area.<br/>
Remember Bart telling the people on the forum some while back that the ...

Or ... maybe the development team is concentrating on the game engine and not on the graphics for the moment...

Jeroen.

Wrote a reply to Ryta and deleted it.
It's not worth it...

Jeroen.

<t>Yes, you can empty a corps through combat damage.<br/>
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To throw a situation back in the group.<br/>
What if a 'cunning' player moves all but one factor out of the besieged corps, then rolls for foraging, has to lose one factor due to foraging and takes that factor from the corps.<br/>
Now ...

<t>Gentlemen,<br/>
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We've run, in our Ajaccio PBEM game, into another rule obscurity, this one concerning call to allies.<br/>
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Here's the situation. <br/>
- Britain and Spain declare war on Turkey.<br/>
- Turkey (defender) calls his ally Austria against Spain.<br/>
- Austria refuses the ...

<r>Ryta,<br/>
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First of all, all beta testers are contractually bound not to reveal anything concerning the EiA product (game status, release date, etc.).<br/>
Second, we are allowed to give praise to the game <E>:D</E>. So, I can say that the development and testing is going very well and the ...

<r>Ryta,<br/>
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I'm a software developer too, and it is our company's policy to minimize the number of testers for our software. We just take a well mixed representation of the people our software is intended for, and let them play around for a while. This has a more than satisfying result.<br ...

<t>Marshall Ellis and all others,<br/>
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It is clear that there are two factions of players when it concerns the introduction of sim movement in EiA.<br/>
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Therefore, I would like to propose a compromis.<br/>
I think we can all agree that when it comes to hot seat or TCP/IP play, regular ...

My soon to be wife knows what she is getting and thinks of wargames as 'toys for boys'.
But she's happy that I'm spending my time wargaming instead of spending my time drinking beer and watching football in a lousy tavern.

Jeroen.

<r>Marshall Ellis and everyone else,<br/>
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Simultaneous (impulse) movement was created to enhance game speed when playing PBEM. Game speed is <B><s>[b]</s>the<e>[/b]</e></B> most essential factor of a Empires in Arms game, if it slows down to much, people lose interest and wander off. Therefore ...

<r><QUOTE><s>[QUOTE]</s><I><s>[i]</s>Originally posted by Marshall Ellis <e>[/i]</e></I><br/>
<B><s>[B]</s>Does that make sense? <e>[/B]</e></B><e>[/QUOTE]</e></QUOTE> <br/>
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Yes it does. And it certainly is a good idea to let the AI make intelligent decisions based on military positioning. I ...

<t>IMO the AI setup depends on the strategy it is going to use.<br/>
F.ex. let's look at Turkey (I like the Turks), and different (working) initial strategies for the Turk.<br/>
Turkey could be starting out by trying to get the Ottoman Empire, so obviously he will deploy forces in Palestine to ...

<t>Indeed, the rules don't speak of modifiers to artillery fire. Although, maybe, one could use the sentence in rule 12.3.5.4: "...irrespective of the tables being used for the normal combat round..." to argue that there are no modifiers for artillery fire.<br/>
On the other hand, the same rule ...

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Ooops, sorry, am I interrupting anything?<br/>
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Could we just <B><s>[b]</s>all agree<e>[/b]</e></B> on the fact that most of us have different ...

<r>Well, the fact that triggered my mail was that nowhere during movement the rules explicitly state that you _can_ enter the city (except when a corps retires into a city when under attack). I've always played that you can choose to be either in the city our in the area, but since there was a lot ...

<r>Since everyone is quoting rules to prove their point, I'll join the fun...<br/>
I will now 'prove' that a corps can only move into the city when an enemy corps moves into the area and that corps chooses to withdraw.<br/>
Rule 7.3.3 covers the 'moving into city' situation. Nowhere is there any ...

<r><QUOTE><s>[QUOTE]</s><I><s>[i]</s>Originally posted by Reknoy <e>[/i]</e></I><br/>
Mr. Rules Lawyer <E>:)</E><e>[/QUOTE]</e></QUOTE> <br/>
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... says one lawyer to the other ... :p <br/>
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Anyway, we'll see how the Marshall has interpreted the ambiguous rules and we'll just have to live ...

<r><QUOTE><s>[QUOTE]</s><I><s>[i]</s>Originally posted by timothy_stone <e>[/i]</e></I><br/>
...toggle between pbem and 'live' mode...<e>[/QUOTE]</e></QUOTE> <br/>
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Yes this could be interesting... when your opponents live in roughly the same continent. Otherwise the chances of both of them ...

Originally posted by timothy_stone
...if GB moves *last*...

Oh, and by the way, the game will use sim-movement. There is no 'move first' or 'move last'.

Jeroen.

<r><QUOTE><s>[QUOTE]</s><I><s>[i]</s>Originally posted by timothy_stone <e>[/i]</e></I><br/>
How familiar are you with the game?<e>[/QUOTE]</e></QUOTE> <br/>
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LOL!!! Very familiar I should say <E>:D</E> <br/>
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Both your scenario's take into account the British declaring war on Denmark of ...