Why people don't post...

[Zemke]

Excellent post on how things should be. It has always been hard to get contributions to tactical posts for the very reasons you stated. I really thing people are afraid of giving away their secrets because of the ladder.

And please don't get me wrong about my comment on QBME flag rushing, I know if you are going to play that type of battle, and if the terrain allows, then rushing the Flags (Objectives) will give you a big advantage, and a likely win. I have done it and had it done to me, its just after playing that way I started to ask myself what relavence does this have with real combat at the tactical level. I could not think of very many instances where soldiers would do that, because during a movement to contact, (which is what a meeting engagement is), you are feeling your way forward to avoid surprise. There are very few instances where two forces are rushing towards the same objective at the tactical level, (operationally, yes, at this level no). So a proper meeting engagement should not give points for flags but rather for exiting the map, which forces you to fight your way through, or die trying. And even that would not be what the likely outcome of a Meeting engagement, which would be both forces would pull back a bit, continue to recon to determine enemy dispositions, and more than like wait for further orders or conduct a hasty attack. But none of that would hppen in a 30 minute time frame. Regardless, the game does not allow a QB like that, so we are stuck with what we have or forced to build our own, which goes back to what I was trying to say all along, the game's ME QB is not a very realistic representation of a meeting engagement IMHO, and I thus prefer other "types" of CM battle options. Der Kuenstler I respect what you are trying to do, times past I tried the same.