Escort service

[axis_roll]

Damn,

I thought we were gonna be able to finally get some hot babes to hang out with us as we play the game… you know, an ESCORT SERVICE.  :-P

[Battlingmaxo]

some of my posts dont get responses so I have to resort to puns to get them read. sorry to disappoint.

[Battlingmaxo]

I would still like to know if this “optional rule” is being used in most of the games played on this forum

[bbrett3]

@axis_roll:

Damn,

I thought we were gonna be able to finally get some hot babes to hang out with us as we play the game… you know, an ESCORT SERVICE.   :-P

Good to know your mind is in the gutter too :wink:

[Imperious Leader]

I would still like to know if this “optional rule” is being used in most of the games played on this forum

Not in my experience. Mainly because its not in the official rulebook as an optional rule, so people don’t think its part of the game. To me its only ‘official’ if its in the rules except when its errata because of unclear rules.

[Joe Cold]

@Battlingmaxo:

I would still like to know if this “optional rule” is being used in most of the games played on this forum

If its something you want to do, start a thread in “looking for opponents” stating you’d like a game with them in, and you’ll probably get someone to play you. It has not been typical in my experience.

[Jennifer]

@axis_roll:

Damn,

I thought we were gonna be able to finally get some hot babes to hang out with us as we play the game… you know, an ESCORT SERVICE.   :-P

Crap, axis and I had the exact same thought…now I have to go wash out my brain! hehe.

Seriously, if these boys has “escort service” there would have been no war!

[djensen]

LOL

At first I was thinking to myself, “oh no, more spam.” Then, I read your post.  :-D

@Battlingmaxo:

some of my posts dont get responses so I have to resort to puns to get them read. sorry to disappoint.

[LuckyDay]

@Battlingmaxo:

I would still like to know if this “optional rule” is being used in most of the games played on this forum

we’ve used it from the start, figured it was overlooked in the initial rules.  nice to see it made the FAQ at least.

[Adlertag]

@Imperious:

Not in my experience. Mainly because its not in the official rulebook as an optional rule, so people don’t think its part of the game.

I totally agree. If its not in the out-of-box rule book, then common people wont play with them. Its as simple as that. Millions of people have purchased A&A games, but only a dozen read this forums, and get access to optional rules like the “Escort Service”. Bottom line is, that when you join a playgroup, you better follow the rule-book that come with the box. As it is today, this escort rules are treated like a house rule, no matter what Krieghund or Larry says.

[Krieghund]

By that logic, you should ignore the errata and FAQs as well.

If you are playing with folks that don’t look these things up on the internet, don’t you think you’d be doing them a favor by introducing them to official designer corrections and clarifications so that they can play the game as it was intended?  All it takes is a printer.

[Lucifer]

Larry Harris is teh big boss on all rule questions, even if we don’t play the game 100% OOB including with or w/o official optional rules. For my part, I could do with only one small change….LL…although some people think of LL players as infidels, but this is how it is, imo, we should use as few “house rules” as possible, but few people play A&A 100% “clean”.

[Battlingmaxo]

@Craig:

It doesn’t fit the level of the game, unlike the level of A&A Europe and Pacific.

Craig

Why not? Is there that much difference between theatre and global?

[Krieghund]

@Craig:

Well. I don’t remember this as a rule during playtesting.

That’s because you hated it and wouldn’t use it. :-P  It was in there for a while, and my group used it in several games.

[Battlingmaxo]

Didnt mean to stir up a hornets nest here. I just thought I was asking an obvious and simple question.

[atarihuana]

it is honest! man, escorts for counting points, serving beer… jeez who wouldnt play AA then…

[LuckyDay]

@Craig:

Well. I don’t remember this as a rule during playtesting.  I remember discussing it, but I never liked it and fought against it.

Aren’t those conflicting statements?  :-o

@Imperious:

If its not in the out-of-box rule book, then common people wont play with them.

who plays with common people?.. certainly not the dozen people here…

[TimTheEnchanter]

@Adlertag:

@Craig:

It didn’t make the OotB rules because of my (and others) dislike for it.  There were others that strongly wanted it.  I didn’t (and still don’t) think that this is the way to fix the SBR rules.

It doesn’t fit the level of the game, unlike the level of A&A Europe and Pacific.

Craig

You are the reason this game is broken ? Man I will smite you 3 times every day. Now I better understand why you are not a playtester for A&A 1942 ed. Totally useless.

Quite a jump to conclusions without bothering to find out if he suggested a DIFFERENT way to deal with it, Dontcha think?

BTW, who changed the thread title.  the original one was perfect - it got a whole lot of us to read the topic and (for those who knew about it) to discuss it, it was funny as hell, but it still made sense when you read the question.

The new title doesn’t even make sense.

[Imperious Leader]

title was fixed. typo.

[Battlingmaxo]

sorry to digress but I find it funny/ironic that the title to my thread requires censoring/editing when there are constant advertisements on the right hand side of this website for russian beauties and Tatiana from Minsk is only a phone call away!!!