This might start an interesting debate on exactly what sort of game
Olympia is.
Eric, all I can tell you is the following: You can play Olympia any way
you like. That is the beauty of it. However, if I wish, I can FORCE you
to play a wargame, simply by attacking you. Your options are to fight
back or drop. If you fight back you are, IMHO, playing a wargame with
me. If you drop, well, then I'm playing a wargame successfully and you
just aren't playing.
There is no way you as a player can force me to pursue any of the other
options that Olympia so wonderfully provides, but I can force you into a
wargame. That seems to be an important factor to me, but I may be
wrong.
In any case, I hope you as a trader are enjoying Olympia as much as I am
being an evil warmonger. ;)
Rob