[Consim-l] Re: At all Hazards

Markus Stumptner mst at cs.unisa.edu.au
Tue Feb 13 23:20:35 EST 2007


On Tue, 13 Feb 2007, bieksza at erols.com wrote:
>> this point it seems as if Hampton Newsome won't do any further games.
>> Which is really a shame; he is a real asset to the hobby with a unique and
>> clever vision.  His brigade level games (there were four or five I think)
>> had a rather elegant order system although I think the orders were not
>> prescriptive enough to really make a difference.  Will have to dig these
>> out again and try them at some point.
>
> Actually there were only three:
>
> - Stonewall at Cedar Mountain
>
> - Williamsburg 1862
>
> - Chantilly

Ha, says the completist in me, then I'm only missing one at this point.

> I've only played the first, and I agree that the order system is
> fundamentally a good idea but it does lead to anomalies.

Very interesting (no, really :-).  Can you explain the problems in more 
detail?

Markus


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