Time Scale

[Herr Straße Laufer]

Every game has scale. Scale is a measure of distance and time.
It is how the penetration charts are made and damage results are figured. It is why the MG 42's fire three times? It is how the terrain was developed. It is how to know the distance artillery will fire? It is why the air plane effects and offshore bombardment was originally so abstracted?

Scale is what determines how far a unit can move through various terrain.
This game was essentially based upon Panzer Leader - Panzer Blitz?
The hex size and unit size was decided by the scale of those board games.
All movement and fire was based around that size.

The game was not intended to portray "days" or "months". It is not part of it's original "scale". It was one of the reasons I was against Engineers building bridges or laying minefields (in six minutes). Or, "wreckers" that could clear a hex in a turn. It physically cannot be done in six minutes.
Most of the original scenario designs were based on that time/distance scale.

That a bunch of designers created scenarios that cover "days" or "weeks" of action, though not representing the true scale of the game, makes no difference to me. I can simply not play them.

Now if you want to make a game that has enough turns to represent a day in six minute turn times, that is O.K. by me. And again, I will not play something that long or "time" consuming.

If you want to create games that cover days and weeks, OpC and TOAW are great scaled games to that time frame.
It's why I early on tried to disuade those who said, "Hey, I played Squad Leader, and this game is just like it." My usual response was "Hell no! Squad Leader is definately a different scale than the Campaign Series. You may want to get a copy of Squad Battles."
Maybe you can pick up Squad Battles and design scenarios that cover a period of days? It would be equally "out of scale" for what was intended by the game designer.

I cringe when I think that the game can be "ruined" by those who take it's scale lightly.

Maybe I am a purist?
Maybe I just want to play a game in the scale I like?

Those who wish to go on with the morphing of CS into something it is not can keep doing it. There will be a point where I will just stop playing. I am hoping to get to 2,000 games before then. But, I doubt it. If it does get to that I will retire and reload my original disks. I'd rather play against the old AI then have to suffer with games designed out of the scale in which I like to play.

I mean, by example, I do not buy a chicken dinner when I am in a steakhouse. Nor would I buy a steak if I was in a pizza shop. Nor would I buy a beer in an icecream soda place.