What's fair

[John Given]

One other thing I thought I should mention is that this "entry hex camping" practice also has an evil twin. :chin:

It's called stacking of exit hexes and it is used to prevent an opponent from exiting his units that have reached their exit hex. This is probably the only "house" rule I stand by that not all that many players know about;

a. It's ok to build up the area around an exit hex - fortify it, cover it with lots of units waiting to op-fire. Even stack the hexes leading up to the exit hex. ;)

b. But you have to leave the exit hex itself empty. One of the big reasons why is that it's possible in some scenarios for the hex to get more than 6 wrecks in it, which can negate the road (i.e a 6 sp truck can't enter a road-marsh hex that has 7 wrecks in it). IF the exit hex is rough, possibly heavy jungle, marsh, swamp, or has certain terrain hex-sides, this will make the hex unreachable for the enemy, which is not fair. :mad:

c. Also, it's not allowable to put units like halftracks (here we go again :stir: ) into the exit hex and then dare the enemy to try and remove them - if the enemy leaves the units alone, the road is blocked. If he shoots them up and creates a lot of wrecks, the road is still blocked (if in tough terrain, to some units). Unsportmanslike and very unrealistic. I've yet to have anyone pull something like this on me in the CS, but back in my old panzer leader days it happened often enough that we made a house rule against it.

Fortunately, there is a "wreck removal" rule that will allow for the removal of said wrecks in 1.03 matrix version of the CS, but my own house rule against occupying of exit hexes still stands.