[WarInEur] Artillery

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In a message dated 15/08/2007 12:50:44 GMT Daylight Time,  
J.Buckley at wlv.ac.uk writes:

 
I'm not saying you are  wrong  but we couldn't find anything in the rules to 
state the case  either way. Where does it say it clearly?
Cheers,
John 

 



The convention in the notation was as follows, at least my  understanding.
 
The counters supported the basic convention of two groups.
1st=Combat (attack/defence)
2nd movement
 
However there were units that had different characteristics,
where attack and defence were not the same.
 
At this point we go to 3 groups, attack; defence; movement.
 
Some units had differing atack and defence...
so when there was no attack strength 
the more easily viewed 2 group convention could be used
(defence only), movement
 
I.E. The AT gun was written in bwie 1 as
 
0.1.10
 
But in later notation it was equally describable as
(1)-10
 
But artillery...
 
10-1-10, as accepted would be decoded in the standard was as 10 attack  
factors, 1 defense factor, and 10movement points. But the art symbol meant that  
the 10 attack factors could be used to increase the combat strength of a  
neighbouring unit in attack, only.
 
The brackerts () was a convention adopted to try to return to the more  
easily read 2 group notation.
 
The 2 group notation was elegant, in design terms, but the increasing  
complexity of the design was driving the units into using smaller numbers in a 3  
group notation, less easy on the eye, but simpler.
 
Where this broke down was that 2 groups were so ingrained, that we ended up  
with a curious hybridised notation convention.
 
The other side of the coin can be seen in the more strategic  game 
Barbarossa, where the Panzer Armee was represented as an 11-8-8 and  the infantry as a 
5-7-3, the axis allies as 2-4-2 units. All units sported this  , for example 
the supply/resorce counter was represented as a 0-2-2 or 0-1-2  (rather than a 
(1)-2 as  later adopted for the supply units in CWIE.
 
 
-|steve|-



   
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