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[Gordons HQ]

I’m not going to mention my age but there are too many years than I care to mention that have past by. In all that time playing wargames I have noticed there are many different approaches, views and opinions towards wargaming.
There are however probably two types of groups most war gamers fall into.

These are the ones who play for the games sake, where the game is the most important thing and winning is the most important thing.
Then there are those who wish to play the game as a simulation of an historic battle and try to treat it as is realistically possible within the confines of the game.

The former are probably interested in their position on the ladder and rightly so in that case are interested in evenly balanced scenarios. I can also understand their resistance to change if it interferes with their particular style of play.

The latter group are generally more interested in discovering the historic outcomes of various battles and what various weapons could achieve. Because of this they wish a game to be as realistic as it is possible to make a game become.

This is where the problem lies, the two groups will never agree on many basic things.
Luckily the Beta team and Matrix have made it possible to please many players by adding the optional rules, we can now choose which to use and also who to play.

I will confess I belonging to the latter group and I did stop PBEM because the game was at times like playing chess, so predictable and so unrealistic with some of the old rules.
Fast moving chess yes, but nothing like the wars I’ve read so much about.
At least there was a decent AI who rarely used such tactics, so that’s the route I have been using.

So credit I say to the developers, it seems so much better to me now with one or two exceptions. I am prepared to put up with these because they don‘t radically effect the game, ships and bombers I‘m talking here.

If there’s one thing I would like to see added if it’s at all possible is some sort of random fire generated by the AI even when a unit has used up all it’s op’s and is being fire upon. Then a unit firing on an enemy unit would never be certain if the enemy unit would fire back or not. This works in Steel Panthers but it may not be possible to put into the game.
I know you can save points for this but sometimes it’s just not practical.
It just looks plain silly sometimes when one side fires all the time and the other has to just sit there taking it.
I stress, I mean random here and not every unit but it could have a percentage chance to return fire.
If it’s not possible I will just have to grin and bear it as it’s still a great game.
I hope I'm being constructive here as suggested elsewhere in these threads.

Cheers, Gordon