by Stu Holttum
Ummmm.....tricky.On balance, I'd probably say not. You have to be careful with expansions as to how many troops you push along each front (Saharans less so!), so I'd be against it more because he would be "skipping" those decisions.
Like you said - expanding while reinforcing "helps him keep track of his plans". I think that's the point - when you move armies along a route, at each territory you have to think "how many do I move"? Playing the way he did takes that tough decision away.
It wouldn't worry me at all if he placed all his territory/continent reinforcements, then - before he'd done any expansions - he said "and I'll trade in some cards as well". It's the expanding while reinforcing I would object to, not the decision to add card reinforcement per se.