Which Sun Do Tzu Orbit?

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1) I said there's no such thing as too much recon. I didn't necessarily mean recon UNITS. Perhaps I should have said intel.

That's certainly a valid distinction. Still, there's always a tradeoff. Classic 1-hex-per-turn, right-clicking every hex scouting robs initiative. Aggressive recon (fast scout vehicles and aircraft, for instance) robs flexibility, because a quality opponent will destroy those units, so you have to be committed to acting on the "snapshot" that they provide instantly, before your opponent can adjust and make the investment pretty much meaningless.

Over time, I've become less obsessed with ensuring that I know what Bad Thing is coming, and more keen on trying to be the Bad Thing coming ...

3) Well, yes, there is no way around the 1 hex shuffle it seems (at least not in any SP platform). But the principle remains. If a guy ridge pops with MBTs and then pops back down at the end of the turn, I'm still going to make him displace or pay the price. If I can't do it with direct fire, I'll use indirect fire, but after he takes that first shot he had better displace. I always assume others have the same approach which is why I say it's "Fire and Movement".

Ah, OK, this is in line with my experience. You either have to "ridge pop"* or find a nice keyhole for opfire. And against a really careful opponent, any sort of opfire tactic can be dicey. I was hoping you might have some new insights into getting those precious stationary targeting percentages ...

* I tend to use the term "popup," as with attack helicopters, because of a wonderful old tabletop game called "Striker," in which you could design your own gear for anything from the Great War to Star Trek. It posited antigrav tech that transforms MBTs into uberApaches. This sort of devolved the game play. (My AFV pops up. Umpteen hunter-killer drones respond. I decide everything else will lurk like hell!) But it really reinforced the concept that nothing was so mighty that the only chance to survive wasn't via ridge-popping, or popups, or snap-shooting, whatever you want to call it.

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