[ASLML] A12.12

[Jim McLeod]

Owens, Michael S CPT wrote:
> 
> Let me rephrase Keith's question, since I was one of the involved parties in the "discussion".
> 
> I have always played that when one side enters from offboard the Scenario Defender sets up without the Scenario Attacker around to watch as per A12.12.

That should always be the case Micheal, that is, the opposing playing
leaving the immediate area and not watching his opponent setup.

>  Where I have erred in the past is that I have then allowed the Scenario Attacker to set up his units offboard to enter and conceal those offboard units -- all without the Scenario Defender looking.  I believe this is a case of "I've always been playing it wrong".

There is noting wrong with setting up off-board, and being concealed
off-board all without you opponents knowing what is in those stacks.

> Read A12.12 again.  It states that "Thereafter, a "?" may be placed on top of any non-concealed [emphasis added] Good Order unit/stack before it enters the mapboard for the first time".  To me, this means that the units to enter are set up offboard unconcealed as the first action in the RPh, then concealed immediately before they enter (whether that entry is in the MPh or the APh).
> 
> The Defender still does not have right of inspection per A12.16, since no LOS to the offboard units exists.
> 
> What sayeth the List?  Have I always been playing it wrong? Or am I now missing some other rules reference?
> 
> Thanks in advance.

:)

If I've been playing this incorrectly, I don't care.  :)

One of the things lacking in ASL is fog-of-war.  Setting up concealed,
and entereing concealed adds greatly to FoW.


			=Jim=