What's fair

[John Given]

Hi Pat, if I understand you correctly, I believe what you're referring to is a practice usually described as camping of spawn sites, or "camping" for short. In most games, it's bannable, but that refers mainly to first person shooters, where the offender simply waits next to the spot where the recently vanquished reappears...only to be quickly gunned down before he knew what hit him. totally unfair, and I don't game with folks who engage in that practice.

In the campaign series, when reinforcements are called for in a reinforcement arrival area that has been compromised by the enemy, you can simply press the "cancel" button for your reinforcements (it will prompt you when you try to advance the turn). That will at least keep your reinforcements safe until the arrival point is safe again.

On the other hand, your predicament may have resulted as a result of poor scenario design, or even simply the flow of the battle...into your reinforcement area. IMO, if your arrival hex(s) are overrun due to enemy action, and not poor scenario design, then it would be realistic, again in my opinion, that the enemy would use its might to prevent the enemy from "taking the field" as it were.

Finally, when you're bringing reinforcements onto the board manually, use the "scheduled" tab, NOT the "arrived" tab, to see where that particular group of units will show up. If it's safe, bring 'em on with the "arrived" command, otherwise, cancel out of there.

Hope this helps.