This deserves some discussion....

[Colonel Talvela]

Whoever said infantry were the kings of the battlefield?

Bootie

I did. And I stand by it. Which is where I also disagree with dk on this specific point:

The reason is, in a small battle, you are both going to get maybe one tank. Just one tank. What's going to happen in the game when your tanks meet and he gets your tank first? You are going to lose the game, that's what. Game over.

I just disagree with this in principle. Now can one tank make or break a game? Sure it can. But I really believe that if you will learn how to play and win with no tanks, you will be a master of this game. In pretty much every game I play, I plan on killing tanks with non-armor units and then using my AFVs - which I have kept protected - to overwhelm everything else with ease. Doesnt always work like that - but that is my philosophy.


Now concerning DKs main point - I definitely agree that small battles allow luck to be a bigger factor. But I still think for people starting out small battles are good. I know I would have been too overwhelmed to try to play a 3000K battle when I was first starting.

I joined the blitz after playing only two pbem games, and if you look at my early games you will see they are almost all sub-1000 games that were played on a small map. I'm not saying everyone should be like me. I'm just saying I dont think I would have stuck with CM playing bigger games.

My play habbits and skill level started changing about the time I started playing Zemke/jdsu a lot. They were brutal teachers, but playing them helped me move up to a higher skill level of play. Which is when I moved up to bigger games.