The spirit of the game...

[Chipmunk]

Becoming a total arse and ruining the fun for the person you are playing is ruining and violating the spirit of the game. Using some sort of outside calculator/odds generator to obtain favorable factors during your turns is violating the spirit of the game. Complaining rather than offering advice and positive suggestions over someone's tactics and misuse of game elements that contradict your preferences is violating the spirit of the game.

Using game mechanics to your advantage is your opponents fault for letting it get that far, but nothing in a sense that is violating the spirit of the game.

IMO
There is no cheese in CM, only whine
Wine is only good with cheese, not CM.

And yet upon encountering Poor Old Spike's armoured fist tactics for the first time, you did everything you've just described above, and in a very public manner.

http://www.gamesquad.com/forums/showthre...ght=cheesy

Couldn't

I find the setup "gamey" as most poeple would not go buy a dozen tanks in any game of CM unless it was known up front to be an all armor game.I wish I had known of your style prior to picking up a game, so I could have played it with you, instead of being what I call blindsided by at least 11 tanks that I can count and a bunch of snipers."

be construed as Complaining rather than offering advice and positive suggestions over someone's tactics and misuse of game elements that contradict your preferences is violating the spirit of the game.?

And isn't

"Don't trouble yourself, I've surrendered in the game and posted your win for you. It was in the best interest, as you've shown no honor in your posts IMO. Sorry I wasn't up to a good spanking by your game winning tactical endeavors."

an example of Becoming a total arse and ruining the fun for the person you are playing is ruining and violating the spirit of the game.?

And if

"There is no cheese in CM, only whine Wine is only good with cheese, not CM"

why did you email POS with "I find it rather cheesy, but it is only a game, although I would have expected better of someone of your caliber.Carry on, enjoy it while it lasts"?