Army Clashing Kabbala

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Dan:
Are we dealing with a newbie? They, like kids, are famous for only telling half the story. There is a possible explanation besides that three percent chance.

The WK army moves on the first turn blocking movement. The next four turns the WK army stands, blocking movement. If this happened I bet the WK is laughing up his sleeve.
Ed

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From: D N <nanooknw@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: mepbmlist@yahoogroups.com
To: mepbmlist@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [mepbmlist] Army Clashing Kabbala
Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2004 11:23:02 -0700 (PDT)

[question of which army moves first when trying to
swap hexes-- random chance? by terrain? Fed movement?
ForcMar?]

>Who Actualy finishes there movement first as aposed
to who moves
first... supports meany of the theroys you listed.
Unfeed troops have
terain modifyers and Cav has lower movement points.

That's a good theory, Doc. I'll keep that one in mind.

>I've always given the 860 when I "really" wanted to
get there... So much of the game seems to follow
"common
sense" logic

Thanks, Brad. It does, and it's party of the beauty of
the game. But whether ForcMar troops start earlier &
move faster or just put in a longer day, I dunno.

One strange aspect of the movement question is that
the theories ARE testable, and yet even vets can't
agree. Many questions of mechanics in ME-PBM are
either brutally hard to test (does the PC limit expand
with time?) or nearly impossible (is a Comm harder to
kidnap when he leads an army?).

This IS testable (still hard, since it helps to know
your enemy's orders and food, but possible), and yet
we still don't know. Odd.

>Likewise, I beleive in the 50-50 theory. What
recent evidence have you seen to the contary?

Ed, I also believe the 50/50 theory, but was thrown by
results in G142. A teammate in the mountains blocked
NK cav trying to reach his capital 5 of 5 attempts,
with foot troops, and that's astounding.

What does that figure to, Brad? .50^5= 3% chance?

It's an incomplete set of info since I don't have the
actual NK pdf's to prove he tried to move up (or
correctly gave the order), but it's still likely: he
had no other targets available, and in correspondence
reflected his frustration at repeated blocking.

Luck? Mysterious mechanics?

Dan

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