F 40 Gold: Expiring Objectives

[jonnymacbrown]

The surrender hexes are not labeled as surrender when playing with FoW. This is intentional - neither player is supposed to know exactly what sequence of events will cause Belgian or Dutch surrender. If they were all labeled than the Allied player would simply cluster around the surrender objectives. The surrender objectives, for the most part, do not correspond to major cities.

Ok Mike, thanks for replying. Here's my question: If the Belgian surrender hexes don't have an expiration then can't the German player, defeated in France, return to Belgium and upon his retreat, induce its surrender and achieve an automatic minor victory on turn 250 or so? According to the scenario description he can! I don't think any player will intentionally try to do this but it could conceivably happen. Myself and many of my opponents like to play out campaign scenarios to their completion, so this is a real possibility.  

Also it seems like Belgian surrender is, sooner or later, going to happen for sure. Doesn't that mean that the German player is guaranteed an automatic minor victory?

Again thanks for all the hard work. This is a terrific scenario, I'm currently playing it and can't figure things out.   jonny