Shoot & Scoot

[Hawk Kriegsman]

The ranges in the game are fine. It is a simulation and a game.

The majority of the scenarios actions (desert excepted) generally have their action take place at 1000 to 1500 meters. It is an LOS issue.

Seriously all this stuff that people want to do to the game is really creating a new game.

Just because you lose a tank SP does not mean it is a burning wreck. It could be that you detracked it, it could be that your 2000 meter shot hit near by and a fragment killed the unbuttoned tank commander or the crew bailed at the mere prospect of even being hit from that range, the concussion of a near miss (a very real probability verses 5 tanks in a 250 meter hex) could have shtter the optics. There are a myriad of reason a tank stops functioning in battle do to incoming fire that leaves the tank relatively intact. For the purposes of CS this is as good as a kill.

By the same token just because you lose an infanty SP does not mean 5 guys died. It more likely means that one guy got wounded and the other 4 had to get his a$$ to the aid station.

You need to think in terms of abstracts when you play this game.

I believe that many of the people that originally designed CS also worked on the original Squald Leader.

CS is just like Squad Leader taken to an operational level.

The more things you try to straighten out the more you stare in the face of an overy complex nearly unplayable game.

ASL anyone?

Please stop trying to make a new game out of CS.

Thanx!

Hawk