I've been thinking about it some more, trying to work out why they would make such a move. Here are my options:
1. They are just really really trusting, figuring that GS is soft and wouldn't attack this early.
2. They realised that if Spinebreaker was to get the opportunity to move 7 from his current position, they couldn't ever get past him. Because of the location of the hills, a scout would have to stop within range of a unit on that square. So they tried to slip past now, hoping that we wouldn't risk an early war, but figuring that even if their scout got bumped off, they had seen as much as they were ever going to see. [Note that this depends on them thinking that there is no passage around the southern edge of our borders - which is mistaken, but anyway]. Does that seem plausible?
1. They are just really really trusting, figuring that GS is soft and wouldn't attack this early.
2. They realised that if Spinebreaker was to get the opportunity to move 7 from his current position, they couldn't ever get past him. Because of the location of the hills, a scout would have to stop within range of a unit on that square. So they tried to slip past now, hoping that we wouldn't risk an early war, but figuring that even if their scout got bumped off, they had seen as much as they were ever going to see. [Note that this depends on them thinking that there is no passage around the southern edge of our borders - which is mistaken, but anyway]. Does that seem plausible?
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