[WarInEur] {Spam?} Optional Strategic Surprise Rule

[Richard Wilson]

Maybe the ability to declare the surprise attack should be die roll 
based, after all:

4. this was the intended plan, and did catch the Germans on the toilet, 
but the Allies failed their surprise attack die roll, leaving us with 
the historical beached whale.
1. isn't this what happened. 2nd battle of Kharkov caught the Germans on 
the toilet, causing them to have to reposition forces from Fall Blau and 
a pushing back of the start date of the 42 summer offensive

noble1234 at aol.com wrote:
> The top 5 allied/soviet uses of the proposed strategic surprise rule guaranteed to annoy any Axis player:
> 5.  De-Blitzkrieging Poland -
> The allied player declares surprise on his first turn in 1939 stopping the German invasion of Poland in its tracks and allowing the Poles two turns to reposition their forces and kill any possibility of blitzkrieg.  The Axis player can forstall this by using a surprise in the first turn of the game but he will be annoyed at having to use it against the Poles.   
> 4.  Super Anzio
> The allied player declares surprise, invades an undefended coast hex behind the Germans, then uses the next move to move his divisions across Italy, cutting the German army off from supply.
> 3.  North African Supply Grab 
> The allied player declares surprise, amphibiously lands 4 divisions between 2 axis mobile supply units and then overruns both of them on the ensuing turn.
> 2.  Sea Lion/Beached Whale
> The Axis player, having burned his 1940 surprise getting through the double line of French divisions launches Sea Lion.  He then watches helplessly as the allied player declares surprise and gets two turns to react to the invasion. 
> 1.  Soviet 1/5/42 surprise
> The Soviet player with his double fortified lines declares surprise on 1/5/42 thus forcing the Axis player to postpone his own surprise attack to 1/7/42, shortening the campaign season by six weeks. 
> As you can see, the rule will cause more ahistorical results than it prevents.  Lets not add it to CWIE2.
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