[WarInEur] Artillery

[srm]

--- sgminfo <sgminfo at aol.com> wrote:

> 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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I won't have much more youth left if this artillery
discussion persists.
 
I also note the "weather posts" are redolent of
ham-fisted "give the Germans more clear turns" 
requests by putative panzer pushers. 

I like Scandi-curmudgeon Arve's anti-nazi comments,
though.

S.


       
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