Nuclear War 28: Nuclear's Eleven

[Jonny]

Sentage.

[:) Smiley]

NW 28.12: I spy a nuclear missile!

Lots of espionage going on and consequentially not a whole lot else.

Jonny and Self Biased spied each other. This spared both Self Biased from Jonny's nukes and also Jaguar, who Self Biased had planned on dropping a stockpile on. Self Biased's planned spy action on Jag was also cancelled, allowing the pacifist to rebuild up to the 5 city limit.

Hercules was not as lucky. He got spied by Snoopy, who also dropped two on his last two cities, WASTING him.

orders due sunday.

[snoopy369]

Why was SB's spy action on Jaguar cancelled?

[:) Smiley]

He got spied. Getting spied cancels all your actions. Obviously the spying of Jonny could not be cancelled, or else there would be an infinite loop.

[Jaguar]

Sent 'n' woo

[snoopy369]

My understanding of the rules is that spying never cancels a spy. It would be unreasonable for spying to cancel one spy but not the other; it must cancel both or neither.

It's obviously something that needs clarifying, but either it should simply cancel the other spy (allowing both players' non-spy actions to proceed, Jonny's and SB's; like in GO-gold) or it should cancel the other player's action but not his spy(s) (allowing the second spy to pass).

[Jonny]

Originally posted by snoopy369
My understanding of the rules is that spying never cancels a spy. It would be unreasonable for spying to cancel one spy but not the other; it must cancel both or neither.

It's obviously something that needs clarifying, but either it should simply cancel the other spy (allowing both players' non-spy actions to proceed, Jonny's and SB's; like in GO-gold) or it should cancel the other player's action but not his spy(s) (allowing the second spy to pass).

My interpretation (and that of my GM tool) is that the spy kylles the other player's action, but not his spies.

[Skanky Burns]

Spies have never stopped other people from spying before either.

[snoopy369]

The short form of my rambling response is "what Jonny said".

Nonetheless, what would people think of changing it next round so that if two players spy each other, the spies simply cancel and both players' normal actions happen as they would normally? GO-like, essentially.

[joncha]

I think you should go with Smiley's ruling on the field, and let him impliment it consistently for the rest of the game. The rule can be clarified for NW 29.

[snoopy369]

In the scheme of things, it makes little difference for this game anyhow, so I don't care about the specific instance here. I just want to hash it out for next game

[:) Smiley]

Previous actions have already been executed the way this latest one was, so changing it now would F with the game.

It ought be clarified in teh rules for the next game.

[:) Smiley]

2/5

dont get udwotted, guys.

[Skanky Burns]

UDWOT!

[Theben]

Originally posted by Skanky Burns
UDWOT!