Proper protocol for intellegence gathering?

[Steel God]

Just thought I'd share an amusing "reinforcement story"....

Just finished playing JDR Dragoon in a battle of Korea 85, I Corps Sector. Anyone familiar with K85 knows that the North Koreans have reinforcements show up behind the ROK lines on day 1 of the invasion to simulate the North's use of tunnels under the DMZ...so that was no great shock to me when 3 battalions show up in my rear area on turn 1 threatening my retreat path and proceed to attack "south" towards my bridge.

On my half of the turn I see this a huge mistake on my opponents part, as he has left the tunnel and therefore his supply source, unoccupied. I plop down 2 companies of Air Cav on that tunnel and think I've isolated his infiltrators. Of course I've completely forgotten about the notion of protected hexes...I mean, this is in the middle of the map, protection is for map edges right? LOL Imagine my disappointment when on turn 2 the reinforcements arrive through that tunnel and those 2 companies just disappear. The only saving grace being that my opponent also failed to realize it was a protected hex and spent a lot of artillery shelling those two companies down to cadres before hitting the reinforcement button.

So....does knowing the map and reinforcements schedules help you? Probably. But think of how many opportunities to laugh at ourselves we'd lose if we study them too closely. ;)

But in the end, I know I have an advantage over many gained from years of play test work, so if someone wants to study a scenario very closely before playing me, I don't begrudge them the info.