Re: New Press Variant?

Mike brings up a good point -- if I were Russia, I would use the one
turn I had with Turkey to establish a code only we two knew, and then
when communication was shut between us, use BROADCAST to communicate.
HAMMER_ (and TOUCH_) probably should forbid broadcast press, huh?

Manus

On 1/27/09, Mike Barnes <[email protected]> wrote:
> The RULE HAMMER_PRESS sounds intriguing, and certainly would create
> interesting press.
>
> On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Manus Hand <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>   So hey, I was thinking, and that's never good, because it usually
>> leads to coding. My thought process got around meanderingly to the
>> existing TOUCH_PRESS rule, in which people can only communicate if
>> their units can support each other, and something made me think about
>> a possible polar opposite.... Anyway, as long as I didn't make any
>> mistakes, it means that a new press-variant is now available in the
>> test (but not yet the production) DPjudge. So get a load of this and
>> tell me what you DPjudgesters think.
>>
>> RULE HAMMER_PRESS -- players may not communicate with one another
>> whenever they have adjacent units, or when either player has a unit
>> adjacent to a supply center owned by the other.
>>
>> So at game-start, Italy and Austria can't send press to each other,
>> for example. And probably a lot of other avenues get shut down after
>> Spring 1901.
>>
>> I think it might strengthen alliances like England-Turkey v. Russia,
>> Russia-France v. Germany, etc. Or it might lead to a lot of "hey, can
>> you tell Austria this for me?" and thus a lot of "hey, Turkey told me
>> to tell you this" lies.
>>
>> Maybe it's a dumb idea, and maybe it really handicaps Austria (who
>> doesn't realy need the handicap). John Woolley was kind enough to
>> criticize it thus:
>>
>> "...seems like one of those arbitrary silly-rules that has no POSSIBLE
>> interpretation in terms of the real-life situation. If anything, it
>> should be easier to communicate when you're close. But given the
>> six-month game turns, a government would have to be SUPERNATURALLY
>> ineffective to be unable to get messages around."
>>
>> I responded saying that it is realistic in an unrealistic way: "We
>> will break off all diplomatic relations with you if you are ever in
>> any position that could threaten or endanger our troops or cities."
>>
>> Anyway, arbitrarily silly or not, if you guys don't laugh it back out
>> of the code, I'd be thinking of starting a new standard game (on the
>> test judge, obviously) if there is interest from seven of you in
>> wanting to try it out?
>>
>> Stab you soon,
>> Manus
>>
>>
>

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