[WarInEur] Barbarossa under options

[SGMINFO at aol.com]

In a message dated 19/07/2008 00:19:16 Atlantic Daylight Time,  
SGMINFO at aol.com writes:

 
In a message dated 18/07/2008 20:34:57 Atlantic Daylight Time,  
bcla3003 at iprimus.com.au writes:

Without knowing the  detail of the proposed fatigue rules, would this still 
allow a player to  combine heavily fatigued units into a non fatigued full 
strength  unit?


 
 
excellent question...



In the case of modelling this issue,
the game actually uses as a basis for the operation
the effectiveness of the topmost unit of the stack being combined.
 
Two reasons for this.
 
1.A need to avoid any unnecessary complications to the code complexity.  i.e. 
the 'Keep it simple' philosophy.
2.An available mechanism that can be used to determine the base  numbers to 
adopt for the resulting base value. i.e. The game already 'knows'  which is th 
topmost unit.
 
 
In terms of gaming there might be an avenue for exploiting an abuse, but  
since the unit takes a hit on units that were  anyway, th effect or  variation on 
the effect is not so significant.
 
Effectively you are taking a fairly rational approach, you keep the best  
units, and using them to reconstitute battle effectiveness, ugmenting them with  
trained combat 'broken in' manpower, which itself should have something of an  
advantage over the unblooded replacement points.
 
 
 
With regard to the suggestion of using attrition to represent the front  line 
littered with 1-5s in the opening rounds of the 1942 campaign, The thinking  
behind choosing the route that we now have is this...
 
By keeping the units and ob unchanged, we simplify immensely the task, and  
cmplexity, of the game options.
 
Had this not been done, the actual countermix would be varied, giving rise  
to double standard OBs when playing with, or without attrition.i.e there would  
need to be parallel obs depending upon which options were selected, namely if 
 you choose to select the classic game options, all the units would need to 
setup  as in the original, but if an attritional model was used, a completely 
differing  OB would be set out.
 
The concept behind the attritional model was this:-
 
Whatever I did to the game model had to be a 'de  minimis' mod to the  
existing  counters and game engine, preserving as much as possible of the  original.
 
As a  result, the fact that the settings and assumptions for this  variation 
are all fully editble in the form of tables, means that the base stock  of the 
game remains solid, and users can vary the effect rather in the fashion  of 
'turning up the lights, or otherwise. on the game, of this effect.
 
In other words a single gloss layer laid on top to transform the units,  
without  actually messing with the basics of he game scenarios etc etc,  causing 
as little opportunity to introduce errors or potential for reinventing  the 
game in ways that were unnacceptable to the gaming majority.
 
 Thus for those who did not like the option, they could simply turn it  off., 
leaving the pristine original as it was... 
 
-|steve|-



   
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