Sniper Wars

[Kelen]

Tanker aces would be interesting.

I see a couple of problems however.

A) A tank that does well, rarely, (or so it appears to me), survives to the end of the battle. The reasons for this being twofold:

1) If it's managed to take out 2 or 3 enemy tanks, it suddenly seems to attract the attention of every available bit firepower on the battlefield, (this being the, "For chrissake will someone please take out that bloody tank!!" mentality). And,
2) The owning player, myself included, (and sometimes it appears even the AI), starts to believe in it's invulnerability and gets cocky/careless. This combined with point '1' normally seals it fate fairly quickly.

B) So a crew that might have taken out 2 or 3 tanks is likely to end the game on foot, having been shot out of their vehicle; and as a result is likely to have sustained casaulties. There isn't, (to my knowledge), any way of tracking which crew members are killed, so really you're tracking tank crews rather than an individual commander, (sorry for those that were hoping to be a new Whittmann). This means that unless the entire crew survives what you carry through to the next battle will be the remaining crew + replacements. This would lead to the 100yr old spade syndrome.

Like the idea, and I would be interested in any thoughts on how to make this work in practice.