[Discuss] unit responsibility

[Timothy Collett]

On Oct 18, 2006, at 8:44 AM, Thomas Dalton wrote:
> In that case, you need to teach them. You should be able to find
> enough people willing to do the job and learn how to, even if you
> can't find many people able to do it well already.

We can try, sure, but it's not an easy thing to teach.  You have to  
have an interest in strategy, for one thing...and for another, you  
have to have an aptitude for it.  I've seen people who are very  
willing, and very interested, but their idea of a good strategy was  
to attack a fortified city head-on without enough troops...and they  
wouldn't be persuaded otherwise.

What I've seen a lot more of (though still not many as a proportion  
of the population) are people who are willing to help out, and have  
good strategic minds, but who aren't willing to shoulder the burden  
of being General, or even the mini-General that we want to make the  
Marshals into.  *They* are the few who would actually be helped by  
Tom making choosing all those things about your unit an inalienable  
right...at least, they would enjoy it briefly.  They would say,  
"Well, now I can decide how to manage everything, and no one can  
order me otherwise!" and they would set their unit the way *they*  
thought it should be....and they would get slaughtered as soon as  
they met the enemy, set two rows ahead of the rest of the army.

In the end, you simply can't teach everyone.  That's why we *have* a  
General and Marshals.  And if these changes are really made, the game  
will lose a lot of people who just aren't having fun anymore because  
they can't give out the orders that 50% of the people want, and the  
other 50% are just doing their own thing and making it impossible to  
win a single battle...and the enemy, who's ignoring the new  
restrictions and giving out line settings and specific orders in some  
roundabout way that avoids breaking the letter of the rules, has a  
cohesive army that tears his to shreds.

Timothy Collett
Anaris Family

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"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs,  
even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor  
spirits who neither enjoy much or suffer much, because they live in  
the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."
  -Theodore Roosevelt




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