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Keep your eyes on your inboxes for the latest round of e-mails from me re. Round 2.

Cheers Gents

Dan

Hey Dan,

Any word on when the Round 2 files will arrive?

I also have a question on the FOO rules for this round (which I've quoted below for convenience): Disregarding preregistered hexes, rule 5 states an FO may only call 1 battery per turn on a target. Does that mean that said FO can call 1 battery *each* turn?

For instance, let's say in turn 1 FO Schwarz spots a squad of my plucky British lads and calls a mortar battery to fire on their hex. On turn 2, more of my stouthearted boys appear. FO Schwarz already has the 81mm battery trained on the hex. Because LOS is required in these rules, there isn't even any drift. In turn 2, can the German player both keep firing the mortars and have Schwarz add a 75mm battery to the barrage? In turn 3, can he have the 81s and the 75s simply carry on, while he adds a Nebelwerfer strike to the mix?

This isn't unrealistic. Schwarz tells the mortar commander to "fire for effect," switches channels, and gets the howitzer boys to hustling. Ditto for the rockets in turn 3. But it's not clear whether it's allowed by these rules.

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Hi
I think there may possibly be some revisions to the FOO rules to make them a tad more simple.
They are a great idea but very easy to get wrong...and that causes confusion...and that's not good

I use FOO rules where ever possible, but even with practice, it is still easy to screw things up.
A much more simple version will work fine.
Hopefully we'll find out what is going on soon enough.

Cheers

I'm not actually a big fan of any FOO rules, for various reasons, but I'll certainly play by whatever rules that the tournament director stipulates.

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I like my FOO rules, but for the sake of simplicity and enforcement they are being revised. I'll get the new rules out to you in a couple of days. They are decidedly less complex.

Hi
Good to hear that you are using a revised version of FOO rules.
Excellent news.

The days of one tube per target are over!
More realism is what we want.

Hurrah!

Perhaps you disagree Seabolt?

Cheers

Oh, it's not like I'll be in a snit over them. It's a minor thing in the grand scheme of things. I do think that enforcement is one issue with FOO rules---it's impossible to know whether someone is fudging on them---so I'll be interested to see what the revised rules look like.

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So how goes round 2?
In my battle against Model it's turn 8 and the first Germans have reached the other side of the first river. On south the armored spearhead is now a couple of hexes from the bridges. Some bridges have been blown out by the Brits but most of them remain intact. Casualities have been light so far. I wonder if 30 turns is enough to take a significant portion of VLs...

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Thexder

It's going swell. Klanx171 kills my boys. I watch him do it. Rinse and repeat. But it's Turn 10 and (knock on wood) so far no Germans on the wrong shore and the most important bridges are fond memories.

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Oh, the round has started already! I was wondering about the long waiting period after the new FOO rules but that it probably because an email is missing somewhere.