Proper protocol for intellegence gathering?

[Marquo]

In the History of PzC it is written than a certain player, alias Marquo, bitterly complained that certain ladder sharks were preying on newbies by using detailed knowledge of the schedule of reinforcements, to simply lay in wait and devour columns of reinforcements whole. This practice simply destroyed all the fun of playing B'44. Imagine engaging in a long scenario only to find that your opponent's strategy was to take Bastogne, and instead of pushing west towards the Meuse, instead to drive south and annhillate all the reinforcements piecemeal as they were brought into play. The PzC Gods listened to the supplications, and protected hexes appeared soon after.

The only way to remedy this is to allow a player to choose between several different entry hexes because currently the hexes are defined by the historical reality, not the reality of the game. This leads to very bizarre and aberrant situations, and in many cases forces players to respect what happened 45 years ago, not today. This causes an inherent inflexibilty in the flow of the game.

I do not beleive that it is irregular to study the initial disposition of forces or the reinforcement schedule because many players such as myself, have a fairly precise historical knowledge of the campaign, which I can't simply ignore. I do beleive that once the game begins nothing is predictable - except where the reinforcements arrive.

Marquo :)