[ASLML] A88 Surprise Encounter Question or, "Do I hafta paint you a picture?!"

[George Bates]

My head starts to hurt when I try to re-orient this in my head.  Does this
look right?
By my reckoning, the area in play should be to the right (East).

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George "trapped in the second dimension" Bates

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-----Original Message-----
From: Aslml-bounces at asl-forums.net [mailto:Aslml-bounces at asl-forums.net]On
Behalf Of David Olie
Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 11:07 AM
To: Craig Houliston
Cc: ASL List
Subject: Re: [ASLML] A88 Surprise Encounter Question


Craig wrote:


> Hi folks.  I suggested to my regular ASL opponent to play this one.  He
took
> the Finns, me the Ruskies.  In preparing my setup in advance, the scenario
> calls for the Russians to setup within four hexes of 34I10.  My question
is
> what keeps the Finns from running up the north side of the board to get
their
> 14EVP for the win?  It is near impossible to catch them due to the setup
> requirement.  ROAR has this scenario about even at 38-36.  Am I missing
> something really obvious here?  Thought, please.  Thanks in advance.

You might be missing the errata to the errata:
ASL A88 (Surprise Encounter) Rotate the North arrow 90 degrees clockwise;
rotate board 34 180 degrees; rotate board 32 180 degrees. {96}

This is different from the first errata published in Vol. 30, No. 2 of The
General.

The bottom line is that you're playing on board 34 A-P and board 32 R-GG,
and board 32 is to the north.  The Russian can set up just about plumb in
the middle of the playing area, and as far north as 32Y7.  It looks like
you'll have to redeploy a fair bit on your first couple of turns, but being
Cloaked you have 6 MF for all units.  So do the Finns, but since the frozen
stream is treated as a gully, crossing it is going to slow him somewhat.

I've never really looked at this one before, but it looks kinda cool.  Must
give it a try sometime.

David "after it warms up a bit" Olie