Tiger II

[Poor Yorek]

I would like to add a few more points in responding now that I have a bit more leisure to do so.

First, if I may say so, "TheDoctor" has a gifted ability to retain visual and numerical information. He can adjudicate several assault stacks (or other Actions) sequentially in his head (allowing him to simply make roll after roll) that I would have to run and adjudicate individually (obviously OF doesn't fit into this). He pretty much worked out solving 3x3; 4x4; and 5x5 Rubic's cubes in short order. His mother can visualize symphonic and choral scores from memory and "TheDoctor" seems to have inherited some of that. With a Ph.D. in theoretical chemistry, I don't think of myself as a mental midget, but "TheDoctor" certainly processes play much faster than I do.

Like many gifted and talented youth, he tends to have great success or spectacular failures; sometimes doggedly committing to a plan even when it becomes clear that some adaption is required (Szekesfehervar Airport comes to mind). Experience tempers all. He also gets very focused: I suspect he probably played yesterday for 10 or so hours. As a further bow to youth, he plays on the hard wood floor of his room under his loft (I'd be crippled) - actually makes for a great PG space even for maps/plexiglass as large as Cassino's.

I have asked him to write up an AAR for one of the actions under discussion. With no means of objective ranking such as exists for chess or bridge, I cannot say how "well" he plays vis-a-vis the two astonished members who raised the question above. Perhaps against "real experienced" players, he (and I) would blow away like chaff; or, perhaps, "TheDoctor" might astonish as did the teen-aged Polgar sisters to certain chess masters?

I'm not particularly comfortable with personal information being conveyed online, but I said as much here since I thought it important in a community such as this that "polices" itself - if you wish - that any question of impropriety be addressed. I also thought it a good lesson for "TheDoctor" to understand how internet message board discourse can develop.

And, now, back to our regularly scheduled Tiger II action coverage ...