[AndyBare]

Originally Posted by EricH

Now here's the question. Contact--in this context--generally is attributed to whoever's doing the moving to initiate.

So: I hop into your Secret Passage to get a boulder, you're nowhere around. You come piling in to get a different boulder and hit me as I'm trying to get out, making no move towards you. You initiated the contact, but without strategy to do so.

Who gets the penalty if one is given and why? Hint: It's not you. G11 only applies to strategies. And if it's me, I'll be wondering why I get a penalty when you contact me.



My personal opinion on G11 is that the GDC didn't learn from 2011 and 2012 when similar rules were in play. Concept = good. Implementation--Frank, we'll need some clarification in TU#1, please.

If the rule was revised so that instead of being:
G21 A ROBOT contacting carpet in the opponent’s SECRET PASSAGE may not contact opposing ROBOTS.
Violation: TECH FOUL
It was:
G21 A ROBOT contacting carpet in the opponent’s SECRET PASSAGE may not CONFLICT opposing ROBOTS.
Violation: TECH FOUL
Everything would be cleared up.

Conflict - verb (used without object)
1. to come into collision or disagreement; be contradictory, at variance, or in opposition; clash: