(07-15-2023, 12:07 PM)cjsiam Wrote: Personally,
I think this was a clever ploy to get us all to read the detailed AAR...
Tread--that's a long paragraph....
These two players are long playing opponents of many games...
And knowing at least one of them a bit, don't think anything said is more then "elbow to ribs" game banter....
So...fear not, lines have not been crossed, abuse was not dispensed, hackles should not rise...
'twas just the lads having a final shot at each other over a clearly one sided affair....
What is more interesting----Why did the scenario go wrong?
I think there are morale or planning priorities (Italians way broken, or should break easier---Italian command would order
retreats when opposed?) other things that impacted real life scenario---that are not reflected
Our "God-like" visibility of everything going on--the chaos in the actual retreating Italians at that point...
Hard to reflect the "real world" situation and responses when so much is known to us...
Just another reason to check out Peter's Double-blind (for the brave among you.....)
Carry on.
Sorry, but calling a decorated veteran a "coward" who "pleads for a draw" in a kid's game on a semi-public blog is majorly disrespectful. What's said in game banter offline is fair in love and war. Manners are welcome, denigrating comment are not. Disrespectful, and tongue in cheek banter may certainly be tossed around in private, but not in public. Tubac52 is only calling for respectful, thoughtful and gentlemanly behavior in public.
