4 player E-mail: AAR

[warspite1]

No. The above is the screen I have.

[Mayhemizer_slith]

Is that correct?

[rkr1958]

My experience has been that CVPs that aren't aborted stay "flying" until the end of all the combat rounds. I admit that I don't know the rule but this seems logical to me. For example, in the Pacific, US carrier planes in the air whose carrier was hit would have to divert and land on another carrier. Isn't this the same thing?

[warspite1]

I see nothing in the rules that suggest otherwise.

[Mayhemizer_slith]

Ok. X on Ark Royal, thank you.

[warspite1]

Ark Royal is sunk

The Spanish cruiser Canarias suffers a boiler malfunction and has to abort.

[warspite1]

The two remaining FAA units return to the two remaining carriers and, as per previous instructions, the Axis stay - as do the CW.

[warspite1]

Hold on what the????? I have three e-mails here - two re-Ark Royal a minute apart and 1 on Canarias. Where the ???? did the middle roll come from?

[Mayhemizer_slith]

I received two emails about Ark Royal. First one was 4, so she sinks. I thought second was a mistake.

[Mayhemizer_slith]

No idea why second message was sent...

[warspite1]

ORIGINAL: Mayhemizer

I received two emails about Ark Royal. First one was 4, so she sinks. I thought second was a mistake.

warspite1

First one is timed 17:19 - a seven. Second is timed 17:20 and is a 4.

[Mayhemizer_slith]

Both rolls were requested from same IP address. Did you click "send" button twice or something like that?

[Mayhemizer_slith]

Check times when rolls were generated. 1 second apart, 4 was generated first.

[warspite1]

Second one

As you can see timed a minute later

[warspite1]

ORIGINAL: Mayhemizer

Check times when rolls were generated. 1 second apart, 4 was generated first.

warspite1

Where is that?

[Mayhemizer_slith]

In picture above: big text on top.

I'm answering from phone, can't post a picture.

[warspite1]

Right I see it.

So what is happening here?

I ask the die roller to roll TO ALL PLAYERS as normal.

I then (apparently) ask for another roll one second later, again TO ALL PLAYERS but this second roll is received by my e-mail first and which I comment on in my post. I then deal with Canarias but meanwhile, while I am doing that, a second e-mail (which was apparently sent first) comes in???

[Mayhemizer_slith]

Oh now I read your text so that I undestand it after Ark Royal took a hit and it us damaged, not sink.

I had quite a hectic day until now.

[Mayhemizer_slith]

PBE roller ask if you want results to email, on PBE page or both. I always choose both. Then I don't have to go read my email and I get result immediately.

[warspite1]

Right the game will need re-working to include the sunk result but I'm too angry - not too mention thoroughly bemused - by all that nonsense to look at this now.

Frankly the loss of Ark Royal - after thinking I had dodged a bullet - is inconsequential compared to how this must look.

But a) As you can see, the first e-mail I received was the one I reported on, b) if this was some kind of cheat it would hardly make sense to send the e-mails to all parties c) for it to be a cheat I would have needed to see the 4 then that split second sent the second e-mail so I could use the 7 (because of course I knew the second e-mail would come first - and I knew the second e-mail would be a better throw).