[WarInEur] Artillery

[sgminfo]

Dan Holte wrote:
>  
> At a scale of 33km per hex, does anyone really think that artillery 
> should be firing at a range of two hexes away?
>  
Again, it is a form of kludge, but to get the "feel" in a stylised 
environment...the concept of massing artillery behind your big 
battalions is what the effect is all about. To be strictly accurate you 
could use overstacking in exactly the same effect with much the same 
practical consequences, but the style and feel this gives is somewhat 
more instructive to the new simulationist dirst  coming at the problem.

There is also the practicalities of large stacks in the cardboard 
environment...not to be sneezed at as an issue...

With computer units and counters the representational strategy would 
just as easily be solved by morphing the counters into larger (and 
smaller) organisation containers (Corps and Armies). Being 
traditionalists and conservatives we tend to elect for emulation of the 
package, to appeal to the memories of those that are the likelyest 
consumers of the product. It is a 1/2 way house, compromising, where 
practical, and easing the complexity, where reasonable. People are 
recapturing their youth, and to a large degree that is what this is all 
about, but those self same people are not about denying themselves the 
new tools, and getting greater enjoyment from easier play, and less 
onerous representational strategies.

-|steve|-

:-)
-|steve|-
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