Game Mechanics

[kineas]

CM is a decision game. That means the purpose of the game is outthink the other player within a frame of a WWII tactical battle.

I absolutely understand if someone plays by instinct, but I will use every piece of knowledge to get an edge over him. This is the way to do it. Just check FM3-90 and the similar documents. This can be a profession on its own, utilising mathematical methods, decision theory etc.

Of course a company commander on the field can't perform long calculations. But almost every wargame unrealistic in this aspect, each has an 'overmind' effect. You see everything on the battlefield, and in the next turn you scatter all the bits of information throughout your troops. The realtime pressure is not modeled.

There's indeed a gamey issue here: that 25m probably an design error. The 'safety range' in woods should be a random variable, sometimes 20, sometimes 30. If that was the case the 'instinct' players wouldn't suffer a disadvantage here. So I also dislike 'magic numbers' like this. This shouldn't be a hard number but typically an instinct property (50m is enough, 10m isn't)