The Unplanned Assault Conundrum

[Dog Soldier]

If the defending unit is set by AOF to hold fire, then the attacking (phasing) player who 'finds' this position knows nothing if they cancel the accidental assault described in this thread. Yes, he now knows there is an enemy position in the hex. But what has the defender got in his nasty pocketeses precious? We dont's know!

The moving player now has to wonder what to do?
Run away if they have enough MP to get out of LOS?
Bypass the position if possible?
Press an assault. Call up other units to join in an assault?

All these are right and wrong decisions depending on what the defender has planned or not planned or is just as surprised to see you as you are to discover something is there.
There is the beauty in this design. What appears on the surface to be a bad thing has many layers to it. The persistent concealment married with the AOF feature can lead to a lot of hours of fun gaming with this much better FOW in PzB.
Unless you just hate surprises!

Now the defending player has eyes on the moving player and can call in air strikes and artillery or more nasty things which I will not speak of.

I am all up for training new recruits to the PzB system by playing them in PBEM games, but I will not give away the whole show here in the forums. That would ruin all the fun.