Retreats and the winter, given back to the player
Both were being taken for the player, the same way a computer power's are, which quietly removed half the consequence of the turn they had just played. A beaten unit that finds somewhere to stand is a nuisance for years and one that does not is gone; the winter is where a good spring turns into a bigger army, or does not. Offered as places rather than as a notation, for the same reason the orders are: the rules already know what is allowed, so the interface only ever offers what is. A beaten unit lists the provinces it may fall back to and nothing else, with Disband beside them. The winter lists the home centres that are yours and empty, and offers a fleet only where a fleet could sit -- so St Petersburg offers two coasts and Moscow offers none. The game steps past anything with no decision in it. A retreat phase where nothing of yours was thrown out, or a winter where your centres and units are level, is not a choice, it is a screen asking you to press Done.
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other now, which they could not do at all before, but none of them breaks
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away to a solo. Beating six of them is the game.
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## The other two phases
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A beaten unit that finds somewhere to stand is a nuisance for years; one that
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does not is gone. And the winter is where a good spring turns into a bigger
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army, or does not. Both are decisions, and both were being taken *for* the
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player while the rest of this was built, which quietly removed half the
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consequence of the turn they had just played.
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They are offered as places rather than as a notation, for the same reason the
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orders are: the rules already know what is allowed, so the interface only
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ever offers what is. A beaten unit lists the provinces it may fall back to and
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nothing else; the winter lists the home centres that are yours and empty, with
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a fleet offered only where a fleet could sit.
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The game steps past anything with no decision in it. A retreat phase where
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none of your units was thrown out, or a winter where your centres and units
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are level, is not a choice -- it is a screen asking you to press Done.
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## Still to build
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- the press in front of the player, rather than only between the bots
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- bots strong enough to solo against each other, not only to draw
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- the music, the battle sound, the four endings
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