[archaeolept]

well, clearly i would like the start situations fixed... as is, I haven't been able to talk to my ally, but the situation is bollocks IMO. perhaps w/ a day or two delay, if the map is to stay the same, we could find a sub for me, since I have little interest in playing such a start. And I don't much care if Dr. P thinks it is fine, to set it up such that one player is necessarily fighting against 2, w/out help from his ally really due to the narrowness of the constriction...

this was not a random start. As such, my standards for what is acceptible are rather different.
and to have what is clearly a mathematical situation dismissed by the person who created the error in the first place, as "whining" is pretty fscking insulting. I've played this game enough to know the score.