Point Values

[Huib Versloot]

Just as irrelevant. A tank is a tank. If one was more expendable on the battlefield than the other, no officer would admit it. Both have crews.

Huib

What an ABSURD statement!!!!! That is tantamount to saying that NO officer, or indeed any soldier, has or had ANY conception of his enemy strengths or his own limitations. Such knowledge is fundamental to the military profession. For example, the Americans were well aware of the limitations of the Sherman, hence the various nicknames alluding to its vulnerability. VADM Holland was well aware of the vulnerability of HMS HOOD to the steeper trajectory of long range fire, and chose to approach BISMARK and PRINZ EUGEN as quickly as possible, at the cost of masking half the firepower of his own force at a critical time. He was wrong.

Do you have any basis for that ridiculous and offensive statement?
I have seen some tripe written this forum in the last 10 or so years, and indeed have contributed my share. But that one, to mix a metaphor, takes the cake.

Rod,
by calling my statement absurd it is obvious you miss my point. either I have not been clear, or I'm just ahead of you and a few others in the thinking process based on my experience in scenario designing. That may be why it initially sounds absurd to you, but doesn't anymore once you place yourself in my thinking process. Some people will never catch up and continue the discussion on their own intellectual level, unaware that they do not contribute anything. I understand them, they do not understand me, but they think they do. I have to live with their dumb remarks.
However that is part of the game when discussions are being done in public.

I mean that tanks should be equal in vp in the game (tank = tank). I don't mind a distinction in light, med, heavy tanks as it is now. The difference in quality/value should be represented in the victory conditions IMO.
The current situation were a Panther is 7 vp and a T34 6vp is just blurring. either they should be equal, or the Panther should be 30 or something compared with 6 of the T34 if one would go the road where values should be different. The current allocation of vp for units in CS is such an a-historical mess, that I would favour for a more simple system rather than make it more complicated.
Then again I did not start this thread. I can find my way and make scenarios balanced, even in this mess. In fact I can even make other people's scenarios balanced. I've have done that on request many times.

Huib