HtH Etiquette

[Marquo]

"memorizing starting locations of vulnerable enemy units, and then using air recon to spot them and hit them with air or artillery. That I don't consider to be sporting."

My first pbem game many eons ago was Kharkov. I was the Soviet. I was playing an experienced player. Being a novice, I thought that touching any of the fixed units in T mode was dubious ethically in terms of the game, so I left them that way. Well...the next file from my M$$#@r F%^(%$G opponent started with a long prologue praising the efforts of the glorious German luftwaffe which had found an exposed park of unsuspecting Soviet tanks and left most of them a burning junk heap.


To this day I remember that lesson and always warn/agree with my opponent that I/he will not air recon and attack units initially set up in T mode or critical artillery pieces(especially important in Smolensk) on the first move.

Marquo :)