Well, you are certainly making me work hard to convert you from the true believer, into a radical non-believer!
@AcesWild5049 said in Classic rules, and some disagreements.:
Your anecdote is purely conjecture.
Actually, my belief is the one that will prove true.
There is no mystery here.
Indeed, I agree with you on that, there is no mystery. :)
It’s stated with perfect clarity supported by specific examples esp in regards to the restriction of building no more than four industries after the initial setup.
And of course, this doesn’t answer the real question, if one buys the extra playing pieces, and thus has 16 industrial complexes remaining, rather than just four, what then?
Anything else is a house rule.
I’ll give you this, you are putting up a stubborn defense of the faith, against my heathen army of despots!
In all seriousness though, I think that we have the truth now, it just needs time to sink in.
We both know that the official rules have lots of issues, and the same can be said for the FAQ. My position is not based upon a cherished, and long held belief, that I knew something that few others knew, but rather on the realities of business and common sense.
Lets try it this way:
#1 In the official rules, on page 2 (upthread, I mistakenly wrote page one), in the lower right hand paragraph, extra sets of playing pieces are offered for sale. We can agree on this?
#2 A business doesn’t spend money on a product they don’t believe is going to sell. We can agree on this?
#3 Both the FAQ and the Rules state that you can have more of a unit type than you have playing pieces for, and using chips or coins or whatever is ok, as long as the stack has the proper playing piece on top. We can agree on this?
#4 Other Gamemaster series games come with spare parts, but these are usually limited to 1-2 pieces of a given type, but the extra sets of playing pieces offered here are a full 299 pieces! A bit much, and more than a little overkill for just spare parts, is it not? We can agree on this?
#5 Other games in the Gamemaster series, contemporarys to A&A classic, expressly forbid using any ‘extra’ or ‘surplus’ pieces, because those games have exact army sizes and compositions. A&A classic does NOT forbid using ‘extra’ pieces, because it’s army sizes are not fixed with respect to size or composition, but rather can grow during the course of a game. We can agree on this?
I can go on and on, but the gist of it is that, if you want to cling to your (mistaken) belief in a “Piece Count Limitation Rule”, based upon the very flimsy foundation of a badly worded FAQ, that clearly isn’t including the possibility of having extra pieces, as ‘proof’ that they are not allowed, well, who am I to try to dissuade you? I just hope, that once you do realise that the FAQ is not forbidding folks from buying and using the extra playing pieces, but rather overlooks the issue entirely, because it was badly done, you don’t have any bad feelings about it. :)