Artillery Spotting & Changes

[Chuck10mtn]

Hi All,
I just have to jump in here. This GAME was never intended to be a simulation of WWII. Lets stop trying to get there.

I quote from my now quite dogeared West Front manual...Part 1 Introduction..."West Front is a tactical level game portraying some of the most significant and challenging battles fought on the Western Front in WWII." The other theatre games have something similar. I for one would be interested in your thoughts of what it was meant to be.

One problem I see is as the game moves forward it risks losing the people who have played it the longest.

An interesting point...I suspect you're right

Its a game and the word game implies that there is luck, wonder and even sometimes true amazement as to the results.

Not just in a game, but as in life, love and war. Was it not Napoleon, history's greatest soldier, who demanded one quality above all others in his subordinates...luck!!

Sorry I know that the topic has vered off in a different direction, but as you said West front is a GAME and my brand new non dogeared copy of the west front players guide doesn't state anywhere that its a simulation. If you want a sim then go get your ps3 of your X-Box whatever and get a 1st person shooter that will have a lot more simulation than JTCS will ever have.
I Like MWEST think that people are quick to jump to changes because we can. With all the new units and all the new changes some of the old scenarios are gone from real play. I'm not sure how the play testing goes but IMHO there is no way to simulate all the several thousand possibilities that could arise. We have all seen the put it out then OOPS its not quite working right and half have new and half have the old, games in progress and a host of other problems. I would suggest extreme caution changing one small seemingless minor thing.
Chuck