The armed half-track

[Mr. Guberman]

Ed,

Regarding .50s on US HTs...in the Pacific, they were hardly ever used for that. They were used for direct fire as infantry support, whenever anyone had an M3...which was rarely.

In Europe...with the masses of forces...and all...it might be more difficult to characterize...but I don't think Audy Murphy won his MOH by shooting up Bf109s, as an example...

RE HTs, as an issue, I will dredge up the "common name" for unloaded Bren carriers..."Rifle Tanks".

RE time scale, c'mon...in RS, specifically, nearly all of the scens presented in the game, as published, would have been NLT than 30 or so turns long. Some of them much longer.

When I was doing the NEI scens, most if not all of the scens, were reduced from 30+, turns just to make them a "short" scen. Holy smoke, some of them would have been...hmmm...whats 4 or 5 hours?...40-50 turns?...with the skimpy forces alloted?

I know what the manual says...and I also know designers of games wish they had not written something so specific and painted themselves into a corner. Truely and agreed, at some point, scale must be defined...and your points are well taken upon that issue. But the empirical evidence clearly demonstrates...that what was written is not entirely accurate and cannot be taken as gospel.

I claim "Pigs can fly"...and justify the statement...that the Pink Floyd album "Animals" showed a picture of one.

Both sides can be accomodated here.

Cheers
Curt