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From: mjv1@quads.uchicago.edu (Michael Vinson)
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Subject: Re: War Games
Message-ID: <1991Jan4.170614.4796@midway.uchicago.edu>
Date: 4 Jan 91 17:06:14 GMT
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In article <1991Jan3.165953.1714@svc.portal.com> moose@svc.portal.com writes:

>You cannot do what you want in the HOM/PB for the same reason you can't in 
>real life.  You don't have that fine of control over troops.  You can say, 
>go take that town, or come back to headquarters, but you cannot say go out 
>to some arbitrary spot that I am thinking about.

Actually, you can do this with Battlefront. It is a simple matter to
use WarPlan to edit the scenario to add as many objectives as you
want, wherever you want. Just make them worth 0 points. WarPlan is
extremely flexible; anyone who plays HoM or PB without using it is
missing something.

Michael Vinson