Now that I think about the situation some more, I sure would like to have that stubborn SOB on my team. There would be some assurance that when he suffers a reverse (and we all suffer reverses) he will not suddenly hear his mommy calling and slink off.
Three players out of the team of 12 turned in orders (myself not
included). But that point is moot since Clint indicated that the
_only_ thing preventing game termination was the orders submitted by a
single player on the conceding team.
Keith
--- In mepbmlist@yahoogroups.com, Gavin Wynford-Jones <gavinwj@c...>
wrote:
> > I'm currently in game 41 where on T11 the opposing
> > team's captain
> > told our team and ME Games that their team was folding
> > and would hand us the victory.
>
> One question: given this information, did you turn in orders for
> the turn in question?
>
> Maybe the player told his team "captain" (there is, by the way,
> no such animal in MEPBM) what he and his mates could do with
> their proposition of handing you victory. After all, 11 turns is
> not very far into a game, is it...? Are you so good that you
> could wipe out the enemy in ten turns?
>
> I suspect there is more to this than we're being told.
>
> For the record: I am against any form of arbitrary ending to
> games, such as the 2:1 ratio. For a long list of reasons.
>
> Gavin
But the guy doesn't seem to be much of a team player if he won't go
with the team decision. Would you be interested in playing on a team
of tenacious loners?
Now that I think about the situation some more, I sure would like to
have
that stubborn SOB on my team. There would be some assurance that
when he
suffers a reverse (and we all suffer reverses) he will not suddenly
hear his
···
mommy calling and slink off.
>From: "gnashrak" <gnashrak@y...>
>Reply-To: mepbmlist@yahoogroups.com
>To: mepbmlist@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [mepbmlist] Re: 2-1 Let the game end
>Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 14:44:34 -0000
>
>Three players out of the team of 12 turned in orders (myself not
>included). But that point is moot since Clint indicated that the
>_only_ thing preventing game termination was the orders submitted by a
>single player on the conceding team.
>
>Keith
>
>--- In mepbmlist@yahoogroups.com, Gavin Wynford-Jones <gavinwj@c...>
>wrote:
> > > I'm currently in game 41 where on T11 the opposing
> > > team's captain
> > > told our team and ME Games that their team was folding
> > > and would hand us the victory.
> >
> > One question: given this information, did you turn in orders for
> > the turn in question?
> >
> > Maybe the player told his team "captain" (there is, by the way,
> > no such animal in MEPBM) what he and his mates could do with
> > their proposition of handing you victory. After all, 11 turns is
> > not very far into a game, is it...? Are you so good that you
> > could wipe out the enemy in ten turns?
> >
> > I suspect there is more to this than we're being told.
> >
> > For the record: I am against any form of arbitrary ending to
> > games, such as the 2:1 ratio. For a long list of reasons.
> >
> > Gavin
>
