Reply To: Is Command&Control in games a myth?

[Aethelflaeda was framed]

And how is impetuosity to be handled?

I have always liked a random events table or joker card in the activation tables. Sometimes it’s not the passive stolid subordinate that gives the most  problems but the too aggressive one who at the wrong time goes somewhere unplanned.

I would also hazard to say that even the bodyguard personal unit of the general should not ever be of perfect control. Sometimes the main leader himself is quite unaware of the local situation and might sit contemplating his navel or gnawing a chicken wing only to be surprised in ways that our game playing generals without fog of war are not. He might not have always have the confidence of his subordinates who balk at his command to charge.

Mick Hayman
Margate and New Orleans