Variable length endings

[The Coil]

I was wondering if anybody wanted to test variable length endings for me. I am too lazy.

Actually, I ran a test on that once a long time ago, when I apparently could find nothing better to do for 4 hours or so. If I remember right, I set up a test wherein there was a squad of infantry sitting around the flag. One set of trials, an attacking squad engaged them from close range, the next set they stood way far away and didn't shoot at all.

My main conclusions were:
1) Even me, with my considerable threshold for boredom (go look up that treeburst test from a while back as exhibit A), got bored before I ran a statistically significant number of trials.

2) There seemed to be some marginal average increase in extra turns with the firefight going on, but the manual seems to overstate the difference a bit (IIRC it says something like "effectively a game won't end if there is a firefight going on around a flag"). And even if there was a difference in the average game length, the range of #'s of extra turns wasn't all that different - ie there were sometimes games with no shooting that went 5+ extra turns, and sometimes games with shooting that ended with 0 or 1 extra turns. So expect on average a longer game, but in any given game, it could end right away or go on for a while.