umbro Wrote:. It appears to me that the justification was based on the game engine rather than battlefield realities.
Don't we all do that? Sorry to say but your own AARs are full with such considerations. It is part of mastering the game I think.
umbro Wrote:P.S. IMHO opfire should be triggered before the assault calculation is made and the results applied before the assault calculation. If this were the case then the gameyness question becomes moot.
P.P.S. The same should be true of assaulting into minefields (IMHO)...
I agree, it works that way in HPS PzC. The major drawback is that one can set up fake assaults to draw opfire.
I am amazed to see how people jump with enormous exaggeration on this supposedly gameyness of an occasion that presents itself once in 40 games or so.
Huib