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<blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 8419886" data-attributes="member: 463">Re player-GM arguments. A good FK GM certainly does not claim omniscience. A good General knows that war is always uncertain. That's why you set a probability, explain what you are rolling for, then roll.Conversely, a good FK player plays the world, not the man. You don't argue with the GM &quot;I can walk 18km in 3 hours in mud, so my men should be able to&quot; - you say &quot;OK, given the muddy conditions, I dispatch my fast Rangers as an advance guard to reach the forward position before the enemy gets there, and hold it until the main body arrives&quot; - then the GM considers, and rolls for success.Edit: There was a show on British TV a decade or so ago where three real British Army generals played FK. I recall they did the Battle of Waterloo. The General playing Napoleon used Grant/Zhukov 'hammer blow' tactics, immediately throwing in the Imperial Guard at the Allied centre, and smashed 'Wellington'. The Wellington player's last line was:&quot;Oh well. It's up to Blucher now!&quot; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="S'mon, post: 8419886, member: 463"] Re player-GM arguments. A good FK GM certainly does not claim omniscience. A good General knows that war is always uncertain. That's why you set a probability, explain what you are rolling for, then roll. Conversely, a good FK player plays the world, not the man. You don't argue with the GM "I can walk 18km in 3 hours in mud, so my men should be able to" - you say "OK, given the muddy conditions, I dispatch my fast Rangers as an advance guard to reach the forward position before the enemy gets there, and hold it until the main body arrives" - then the GM considers, and rolls for success. Edit: There was a show on British TV a decade or so ago where three real British Army generals played FK. I recall they did the Battle of Waterloo. The General playing Napoleon used Grant/Zhukov 'hammer blow' tactics, immediately throwing in the Imperial Guard at the Allied centre, and smashed 'Wellington'. The Wellington player's last line was: "Oh well. It's up to Blucher now!" :) [/QUOTE]

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