The armed half-track

[Hawk Kriegsman]

Gordon,

You are right and not right at the same time. There are no schools of thought and there is no such a division of purists and revisionist. The fact is that time scale is flexible and that ALL designers (except Baltjes) have used it as such. RR seems to be a purist follower of his own misinterpretation of what he thinks the game stands for and causes merely confusion, nothing more.

Anyone who compares a couple of historical scenarios with the real historical events can only come to the conclusion that the manual of the Talonsofts CS was probably written before any scenarios were built. The vast majority of the scns cannot be pressed in an unbroken linked turn timespan of 6 minutes. Only NOT-designers claim otherwise so far but fail to deliver proof in the form of examples of scenarios. Let alone they ever built one that would show their case.
Maybe it helps to say that the some of the original makers, later wrote in the HPS Civil war manual (a newer John Tiller game) , that turns have flexible timespans. They obviously realized that you cannot fix a timespan in such a type of game.
I should not really care really but I get tired by criticism on new units not fitting in six minutes etc made by those who do not understand how the game is made and then think they have math on their side.

H

Seriously Huib stop being such an a:censored:.

Page 154 of John Tiller's Campaign Series Game Manual (FAQ).

What is the game scale?
A. The game scale is six minutes per turn and 250 meters per hex.

Just stop. It started as a game scale of 6 minutes per turn and the current Matrix version of the game states it is 6 minutes per turn.

And stop with the you don't know how to design a scenario BS. While I don't design scenarios I do know how the :censored: to read my friend.

Thanx!

Hawk