RE: [NetEpic ML] Re: Looking for a couple of magazines

From: <jyrki.saari_at_...>
Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 16:15:50 +0300

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> From: ext primarch_at_... [mailto:primarch@...]
> Sent: 01. June 2001 15:25
> To: netepic_at_yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [NetEpic ML] Re: Looking for a couple of magazines
>
>
> Hi!
>
> It comes down to what people are willing to abstract in a game they
> play. I have the same reservations you state, a stand or marines
> should not have the same armor as a armored vehicle since there is
> obviously a difference between the two and there ARE differences is
> weapons as well. Some argue that at that scale of conflict it doesn't
> matter, but I think that is rubbish. Note games like spearhead which
> represent games at a even larger scale perhaps than epic and they DO
> make a difference between a King Tigers armor and a T-34, as well as
> the difference between a '88 and 75mm guns. There are differences and
> they have a battlefield effect. War is also about having the right
> unit/weapon in the right place at the right time.
>

Exactly, and SH is even higher scale game than E40K, the basic units being
platoons (I own both SH and Modern SH). And continuing your above example,
how many Pz IV commanders would direct their crew to shoot attacking
infantry when there are T-34/85s coming in? Infantry fighting is primarily
the job of infantry and artillery.

> Too bad really, they had the right starting idea, but poor execution.
> Then again what do you expect from rules that when created
> had no more
> input than from a handful of "designers" who created it?
> Listeneing to
> people AFTER the game is made and changing things doesn;t help much
> since its the core mechanics that needed changing.
>

Again right at target.

> Peter


Jyrki Saari

-There is no such thing as free lunch because eating takes time and time is
money.
Received on Fri Jun 01 2001 - 13:15:50 UTC