...and please don't discuss ongoing games in the forum.

Mr A is correct on both counts. Good call.

Just to clarify, Mr Whiskers. You could have asked why a fleet that was attacked still managed to convoy without a specific example, and all would have been fine. We would have pointed you to the PDF of the rules (http://www.diplom.org/~diparch/resources/rulebooks/2000AH4th.pdf) and explained that not only the rules but common sense can show why the convoy would still work. After all, the convoy is a fleet. It has war ships and it has transports. The warships go off and fight the attacking army while the transports continue to perform their duties.

*attacking fleet, not army.

My apologies. Kinda new. Thanks though. I appreciate it.

No problem dude. We all make mistakes early on like that. That's why a nice polite answer is best in those cases. Do it again, thpough, and I go Draugma King on your arse! :-) j/k of course.

To be fair, the FAQ does say that if you believe there's a bug in the implementation of phpDip, you should post in the forums. MrWhiskers may be breaking rules/etiquette if he'd asked a question about that game, but not by reporting what he believed to be a glitch.

...Of course, by that argument, he's still at fault for not checking that he wasn't misunderstanding the rules.

Except for linking the game, what he did was fine.

What's the issue with discussing strictly factual, past-tense events in ongoing games? I understand it's a bad idea to solicit strategy (or possibly even to ask "what could I have done instead"), but in this case, the turn has already played out and everyone both in-game and out-of-game has perfect information about it.

Discussing *any* ongoing game, even past events in it, can have ramifications for the future. For instance "So and so said they did this" could lead one of the players to see a motive in "so and so" and react accordingly. That is why it is against the rules to discuss *any* ongoing game that isn't designed to be a public forum game (like the School of War and a few others).

I don't have a problem with this type of question, especially since it's non-anon, full press.

It's non-anon and full press; this isn't any different from posting it in global as far as the players and the game are concerned. It calls attention to the issue to non-players... which is the point, as it's a question about an alleged glitch.

Since Whiskers is new, I should clarify to say that I, as a Mod, don't have a problem with this question, since he's asking about an adjudication question on a past event which doesn't revel any additional information to players involved in the game.

@abgemacht: Thanks, that's what I was getting at. :-)