FASCAM - Gamey or not?

[Zemke]

Guys - keep in mind a Minefield only blocks supply while it is unpenetrated - so drive one units into the minefield and the isolation will be lifted at the start of the next turn.

In a slightly related topic - now you guys can see why we don't want to allow Air attacks on Bridges. Jeez, what some people will do with the tools at their disposal! It reminds me of the guy who complained about the Axis AI in Normandy 44, only after we saw his file and could see that he had run fast AT units through the lines to sit on the Axis AI reinforcement hexes and we had neglected to make these PROTECTED entry (as this was only game #2 in the series)

Anyway - I'm way off topic now but my point is that people do things we don't expect, with game capabilities we add in an attempt to improve the series.

Glenn

Glen, appreciate your thoughts, but we have the addition problem of enemy attack helicopters sitting on the FASCAM mine fields, and all the "isolated" units are disrupted, so they cannot attack into the helos to get out. It is sort of all like one big exploitation of the game to get results that have no bearing on reality.

Disrupted or not, a ground unit when faced with certain destruction would not hesitate to "breakout" through an attack helicopter unit. Which frankly could not hold ground anyway, (and should not impede movement of ground units, another topic).

And before anyone says that disrupted units would have poor command and control due to disruption, I agree they would, but they have been retreating in the same direction for several turns, and I am sure most subordinate leaders would know the only way to friendly lines would be to attack / infiltrate through the attack helicopter screen. But again I understand the limits of the game, and this is next to impossible to model. The game it is what it is, and in the current situation it just sucks. But I love the game too, kind of like my kids...lol.