The armed half-track

[Von Earlmann]

Good Lord................do people still think that the 6 minute time scale was ever really accurate in any version of CS?

I suspect that in a scenario with 15 turns which supposedly is 90 mins a commander might be able to issue maybe one order during the entire the engagement.

Time scale is like the rest of most of the game pretty abstract at times and pretty close at other times. I did discuss oaded arty with someone who was in an arty unit post WWII and he confirmed that they could in fact set up and fire in about 6 mins.

I find it hard to believe that a PSW type could bump and expose up to 3 or 4 units and then relay that info and have same units attacked by and assaulted repeatedly in 6 mins.

As for large scenarios. It was not the game design that limted the size of the scenarios. It was the capabilities of the computers and with todays stuff you can play larger scenarios without locking things up. I like larger scenarios and have always prefered playing campaign type games in any wargame I play. for those that enjoy smaller scenarios I think that's great too. They are both suited to the game and prefering one over the other does not make any of them wrong.

However, by damn you will never convince me that 6 mins a turn is any where near realistic in the overall concept of the game......then or now :-)

VE