Re: Food Checkout Week

On 9 Mar 2008 16:02:15 -0400 in rec.arts.sf.fandom, "Keith F. Lynch"
<kfl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote,
>Kip Williams <kiptw@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> Keith F. Lynch wrote:
>>> That strikes me as a much more reasonable way to have a war:
>>> Designate various people on both sides as troops, but don't
>>> actually fight.  Instead, simply track them, and see which country
>>> the last survivor lives in.  That country is declared the victor.
>
>> Like nobody's going to cheat on that one.
>
>What, you mean someone might come over and kill them?
>
>Such a hostile action would mean war!

1.  You already stipulated it as a way to have a war.

2.  Covertly killing them isn't cheating; it seems to be explicitly
how you set the game up.

Cheating would be something like slipping in a younger substitute
when one of your soldiers died.