Jason Petho Wrote:Will there be Light Assault, Medium Assault, Kinda Extreme Assault, Super Extreme Assault options available? No, not in the foreseeable future.
Having files allows me to go through them and see what the results are, what factors are being attributed to those results, what results are reoccuring (in different games) allowing me to understand what tweaking should take place, if any.
"It doesn't work" or "I can't assault any more" or "I tried assaulting 10 times and nothing happened" doesn't help.
If one stops playing with the rules, how can one provide constructive criticism to help tweak them?
It is like living next to train tracks. After awhile you become accustom to the sounds of the trains.
If you live by the train tacks and the train derails and crashes into your house what would you do?
That's more than Venus or swamp gas. O.K.?
Extreme assault itself
is the problem. That is how
contructive I can put it. Others also state it?
You think it is a matter of waving a wand over the brew, reciting a few lines from a spell in Latin, spin around three times backwards, and hope that Lucifer comes to kill the defenders work for you? It does not work for me. I don't play D&D. I play a tactical wargame. At least I hope it is still a tactical wargame?
Frank wrote:
1925frank Wrote:There have been some comments about doing the assault incorrectly. This suggests that the designers have something in mind that many players are missing. If Matrix intended extreme assault to add something, and if that something can only be appreciated if the player uses a specific tactic, then something may be amiss. My impression is that gameplay is not naturally leading players to use that tactic and that use of that tactic and appreciation of that tactic has to be artificially coached into the game. The goal may be great, but it's not translating well into gameplay just yet.
Between reducing the effectiveness of armor, taking away "assault", making transports more valuable but harder to kill. And impossible for some units to assault - even with a lone vehicle in the hex - because now the hex and the die roll become more important than what a unit could realistically do? In that, you have radically changed the game.
Extreme assault sucks. Learning how to do something that sucks is not fixing anything, IMO.
Telling players that they are not doing it right does not fix the game? It only fixes the player who did not have a problem in the first place?
Sending files to you that you will explain away that way will not fix the problem.
In light of Scuds comment, I have given some thought. I do not think that I would have stuck with the game for as long as I did if the current extreme assault rule was the norm. The game is not as fun to play (which strangely is a common comment from other players).
Maybe you will wish that I never saw the Talonsoft version?
Hell, I never wished I would have seen version 1.03 (the horrible abomination) and version 1.04's Extreme Assault which changes the game for the worse.
That's my opinion. It has always been my opinion. It will always be my opinion.
You've diminished the game by allowing the game engine, and a die roll, take over for "skill of the playing of the game" by the gamers.
If you want to leave Extreme Assault in, why not do so for those who play the AI? It is the AI that needs the help?
RR
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