FASCAM - Gamey or not?

[Volcano Man]

The real issue here is how much FASCAM was given to that scenario. If you are playing a campaign then these levels sound fine but then it would be a blessing in disguise for you, since your opponent pretty much just shot his entire (or most) of his FASCAM. You would now be in a situation knowing that he does not have much more remaining.

I would say that if someone wants to use it like this then it is not gamey, just a questionably tactic. In the real world, it is not that a high volume of FASCAM strikes is impossible, it is just that there is a finite amount of such munitions so they are used sparingly and saved for certain situations. By deploying all or most of it at one time, it would be a strategic mistake (unless you are on the last few turns of your scenario). Also, I just don't see how using 15 FASCAM missions is going to cause that much of a problem, all you need to do is send one unit into one of them to penetrate it and break the isolation status. So I think it is less that it would be "impossible" to do in real life, rather that such an action would actually just be wasteful use of an asset.

If you do not think it is realistic then what sort of different method do you suggest? As is often said, these things have to be kept to the abstract simple form, lest they become some over engineered and unplayable mess of a "game" like... *ahem* some other strategy games out there.