F '14 Flanders campaign German reinforcements deployment issue

[Volcano Man]

Well, I am sorry you feel insulted, that was never my intent at the start of the thread. I was also trying to explain why I couldn't devote time to getting into a lengthy rhetorical discussion about the scenario. I appreciate the time you took to explain what you did in the first several posts, and the effort is not lost because you made those comments on a public forum that can be discussed by others.

I read the posts again, just now, and essentially I see nothing there about what I originally asked for: which units were arriving in your rear? This is a critical element I must know to look into fixing the problem, before going off on a wild goose chase. Many units arrive in that scenario. You said you didn't want to open the editor and look because it was unfair to your opponent. Fair enough, then he could tell me (I assume that was him who did). I figured out one of them after searching for some quite some time and tried to improve the situation with it.

Other than that, I cannot take everything that a player does into account in these longer, and often very complicated scenarios, especially when it comes to the overall strategic situation and what played out historically. I could create Strategy/Operations that try to account for a-historical allied advances, but then it leads down a path of a variables that can be difficult to predict and impossible to accommodate for all possibilities. That said, the basic lack of objective hexes to the southeast should be what limits the allied side from advancing past the Canal de la Haute Deule which is considered an attack into the German reinforcement areas.  If it does not, then to me the allied player has no other intent than to try to overrun German reinforcements and that cannot be allowed (hence the protected areas).  All you can really do in a situation like this is reference the Protected Hexes feature. If you see shaded areas then stay out of them as they are "off limits". Other than this, if the allies advance into them then they are fair game to be broken and pushed back with all sorts of possibly strange results like broken units everywhere, units in behind you, etc.

That said, if I have reinforcements arriving unprotected away from the map edge then this would certainly be a mistake on my part *and I want to know which units that arrive on what date to fix it*. So far, I couldn't find anything other than the unit I improved; all others seem to be protected. But did I miss something? Should I spend hours going through the reinforcements line by line? Or is it reasonable to be able to ask the person reporting the "issue" to help me narrow down the search and/or expect that person to do a little investigative work and single out the unit?

I am also a human being and have commitments other than PBEMs, but I have also paid for that so please do not turn me into an irate client treated as a nuisance.

Right, but with all your commitments, are you also designing and creating the next title in the FWWC series that people are waiting patiently for, in your spare time? Are you also trying to read multiple threads from the community to go back and revisit old works while doing that? These games take a massive amount of time and effort to research and create, and this is on top of all the other commitments that someone may have. I am not complaining nor asking for sympathy here, I was simply trying to have you be understandable and reasonable, and I was attempting to explain that I am balancing both real life job commitments, playing my own PBEM games (I love to do it just as everyone else does, why shouldn't I be able to play too?), and the time sink of designing the next title. Apparently I am failing miserably at balancing it all, as I have created an irate customer who demands that I stop everything to lend an ear to something he subjectively feels is a major flaw. Then when I try to do something to help, I get it all thrown back into my face.

This is one of those times that makes me wonder why I bother TRYING to listen to feedback and going back and revisiting something that, by all accounts, is a 'finished work'. Your subsequent irate posts here certainly make me question that. At this point, after all of this, I see you as unreasonable and ill tempered. You could convince me otherwise, or confirm it.