JasonC's writings

[Ratzki]

I think that JasonC's writings are great, they just live in the land of "looks good on paper". Nothing is wrong with what he says, after reading it a couple times, I think that this would be a fine model to strive for. But it is just that, a model. I do not think that he wrote it as a do this litterally, at all costs of suffer the consequences. It is more to show within the game's frameworks a guide to trying to use and view infantry more effectively. I have worked rather hard to be infantry effective in the the games that I play, only my opponent would be able to speak on how effective I am. The fact is that I usually choose a infantry heavy force or let the game's AI pick my units if playing a QB, add to this, that I rather suck with armour tactics. I feel no panic when facing enemy armour with Russian rifle squads, or after losing all my armour to my opponent, I find the game just gets more interesting when behind the 8-ball. I like to try(note the word try) to have my men fire off their last round in the last turn of the game, usually by using covered arcs and by cancelling orders to fire in situations that I feel would be a waste of ammo. I cycle through my forces during the game and allow time to rally on one side of the map while starting to press forward on the other. I pick objectives that are worth fighting for, not victory flags, but locations and situations that will forward my plans to winning the game. I read an article by someone back in 2005 about defeating the enemy and the flags will take care of themselves. It is the one rule that I play by always, and I win about 2/3's of my games, so it must be a good rule to play by. This winning percentage remains at about 65% even though I handicap my playing style to make the games more interesting and challenging for myself, see the couple DARs I wrote to get a feel for the handicaps I use. I think that it is a very sound model to follow, are there other models out there?... sure, I would like to hear from the players that use alternatives and win. Maybe there is another style out there that is more effective then the one stated, it is worth the time to post it so that others can learn from it and maybe come up with a model that is of yet, unknown.