Herbert, your points are spot on and I agree (and have repeatedly)
with all of them. The mistake you're making is the same one I
originally made - you believe this is a genuine and objective call for
help. That a follower of WiF has become so disillusioned because of a
strategy and needs help to overcome the strategy and regain his faith
in the design and balance of this great game.

But I feel there enough evidence now that it was really a disingenuous
attempt to try and show off the strategy itself.

Hakon claimed to be an atheist (which was a rather odd claim in
relation to WiF) but the point he was making was, and I quote from
message 100306;

"And if you are not able to defend YOUR claims, but rather make it
from a faith based assumption that "every strategy has a counter
strategy", it seems rather hollow to me. Though, as an atheist, I'm
not very used to believing things simply based on faith."

Yet, how many times has he admitted to not seeing a suggested counter,
but then dismissed it out of hand based on one of his own "massed
armor" will do this and something else will do that? He seems to have
PLENTY of faith in his own assumptions.

As you've quite rightly pointed out (as I and others have), dismissing
the ridiculous restriction on Russia's defence options - or even
contemplating some different sets of optional rules - have all been
dismissed. Now if he was really genuine about getting his group
around this game breaker, wouldn't he consider just about any fix?

But his disingenuousness that has pee'd me off the most is his public
posts about a match up. He's tried to gain some sort of legitimacy or
traction by suggesting that I've got "cold feet" or am no longer
responding because of a lack of confidence. I have zero interest in
playing a farce with zero bids, Hakon's rules including house rule,
and a virtual script – which I've posted. But beyond this, I live in
Australia (posted) and have absolutely no intention of playing to
Hakon's suggested timetables which equate to midnight to 7am on my
Monday's, or the alternative is to play similar time's midweek!




--- In wifdiscussion@yahoogroups.com, "Herbert Gratz"
<herbert.gratz@...> wrote:
>
> Hakon, I got an excellent idea on how to avoid a super-Balbo in your
> games: allow stuffing. Thios solves it at one stroke.
>
> Actually, it is a bit pointless to have this conversation at all: has
> anybody else, who IS playing with stuffing, run into a Hakon-type
> super-Balbo? If not, then perhaps your difficulties are due to chucking
> a key-element of the Russo-German balance of power.
>
> As far as most of the points go: I think that in the discussion you
> make the Axis force go much further than you'd ever be able to on table.
> With your indicated build structure there is nowhere in hell you can get
> all this stuff by M/J 41. Even assuming 0 losses up to then. I'd suggest
> that you keep track of your opponents builds if they play this strategy
> and see that they don't put an extra unit or two on the traxck each
> turn! :-) (Only joking but it just doesn't pan out.)
>