Point Values

[K K Rossokolski]

I would like to further discuss the VP value of the humble truck, which jumped, seemingly without any warning, from 1 to 3. In some discussion at the time, there was consideration that trucks could actually carry twice their SP of Inf.....which I thought then, and still do, was a bit of a red herring. I suggested that one result of this diktat was the instant alteration of the hundreds of scens in the Scenario DB. Now this might be a good thing...who knows the effect on a given scen until it has been played a few times.



Anyway, I can't get my head around 3 for a truck. 2 ...maybe.
If rarity is a factor..how about Romanian truck 8, Manchukuo 24, Ethiopia 250-300.......they only had a few. Gets very silly, very quickly, does it not?.
And should we have different values for different trucks?....let's see, is a 1942 Lancia better than a 1943 Fiat...or a 1941 Studebaker..or a 1930 Bedford?? How about a Renault vs a Merc? Is a Deuce and a half* better than a Two-tonner? What about a Moskvitch made under licence in Bulgaria?

There should be one criterion only for combat values...capability. Similarly for transport, any differentiation in VPs should reflect cargo capacity only. And, as far as I can see, pretty much all trucks in the game have the same carrying capacity. Which is fine for CS, an old, pretty simple, perhaps obsolete game now being asked to do things it can't with results that risk turning it into a farce..we have seen the imbecile "submarine" and the joke "bombers."
What next, I wonder?

Oh, BTW..Red Herring for entree, tripe for mains, cake for dessert. Make even the hardiest foodie throw up.

* And for those unaquainted with the idiom of the U.S.Army...a 2 1/2 ton truck.