@AcesWild5049 said in Classic rules, and some disagreements.:
I read about half of this and now I’m pretty sure you’re trolling me. Well done, but I’m finished now. I have nothing else to say about this “topic”.
Except that I should ask if we are playing by your rules in our game?
Not trying to troll you. I thought at first that you were having a bit of fun at my expense, and were in fact pretending that you really thought that the FAQ was spelling out that folks couldn’t use the extra playing pieces, even if they bought them, but I think now that you are seriously saying that is how you interpret it.
House rule?
If by that, you mean, am I going to insist on being able to buy virtual pieces, that my budget can afford, rather than, say, being limited to some mistaken misinterpretation of the FAQ, which is after all specific to use of actual, physical playing pieces, on a physical board, and then being carried over to the virtual game, then I’m not sure.
I’ve remembered once upon a time, I ran across a guy that I was playing with at my last duty station, and he said something about not being able to split my bombers up and send them out individually after his scattered transports, and so I went into my parts boxes and pulled out an actual bomber playing piece, and poor alaska was just a mess! Apparently, he had heard about the Piece count limit as well, but when I pulled out 15 actual bombers and set them in alaska, that ended the objection to me using chips.
I have to ask for clarification on this point:
You and I believe differently on just what the FAQ is, and this basically comes down to the question of, does the conversation that larry harris had, way back when, that served as the basis for what became the FAQ, include the whole extra playing pieces question, or does it ignore it? If the conversation that later became the FAQ overlooked (or perhaps, predated) the printing of the 2nd edition manual, then that would mean that the issue was not ‘carved in stone’, but yet another example of what can go wrong when writing a game. :)
To answer your question, then, I first have to ask you not to call it a house rule (of mine), because to me, it is more like a house rule (of yours), based upon actual playing pieces, and then being (wrongly) imposed upon an electronic playing field, where there are no actual pieces.
All that being said, I’m just wanting to have a good game, and a good time with a fellow Classic A&A player, and so if your really want to play that way, I’m ok with it. Besides, I’ll not likely survive long enough to get to the point where limited AA guns/IC will be an issue, lol.