The spirit of the game...

[Kelen]

In other words, things that are "gamey?" Hmmmm this is always an interesting discussion -- is that tactic gamey or is it fair play? Is it a "stunt?"


I would define the spirit of the game pretty loosely as "anything that might reasonably have been done by my units in real life in this situation."

Very difficult to come up with any hard and fast rules on this one, as what 1 person may consider 'gamey' another may feel is perfectly ok.

You're always going to have those that buy unrealistic unit picks, (those 6 crack King Tigers), but these are manageable by setting ground rules.

As for what might reasonably have been done in real life, hmm what about;

- using vehicle crews and out of ammo snipers as scouts? or,
- shelling an area or building where you know your captured troops are in order to try and deny you opponent the extra points for capturing them rather them killing them?

The problem is is that I'm sure you can find numerous examples of this actually happening in real life, (ok, calling in friendly fire on prisoners to deny your enemy information rather than points, but the end is the same).

Do the mods have any examples of what they might consider a 'stunt' or 'gamey'. After all, if 1 person is thinkng of accusing another of 'cheating' it might be handy to have an idea of what they think.