Ostfront Tourney Fog of War question

[Rabbit]

Hi Pawel, your English is great - in fact, better than that of many native English speakers. It can be a little hard to tell where to draw the line, being that you almost can't help but be aware of some intel that can have a significant impact (such as the general area where AT guns and mines are located).

It sounds like the consensus is that we should avoid using specific intel that wouldn't be available otherwise. For instance, we should avoid indirect firing upon any positions that we wouldn't ordinarily consider bombing (in other words, Russian indirect fire around visible German units would be fine as well as German indirect firing near the Objective Hexes and other likely defensive positions, but German bombing near the Russian mortar positions isn't okay).

However I fear I am still a little unclear if we should be approaching our overall strategy from a concept of pure ignorance of the enemy's starting positions or if we should allow ourselves to take into account what we know of the other side's starting positions from a high level. For instance, players could formulate their overall strategies taking into account the knowledge from the mirrors of there being a minefield in one direction, AT guns in another, and free roaming tanks elsewhere without thinking about specific hexes. Or players can formulate their strategies by forcing themselves not to take that knowledge into account at all.