New Idea for ME's?

[Splork]

Curious as to how this is working out - is anyone playing any of these maps? If so, how's it going.

I've always thought the ME problem was more due to the relatively large number of flag points on the board relative to casualty points. Not unusual for the random generator to throw 900 or so flag points on the board in a 3000pt ME. Given that this represents a potential 1800 pt swing (-900 if your opponent has the flags vs. +900 if you get them all), it makes sense to throw a lot at the flags, and not worry as much about force preservation - it can still be worth it to lose a platoon of tanks taking a large flag, if you can push your opponent off it and grab possession. I think just putting fewer flag points out there would still give some reward for taking territory but make force preservation a higher priority. Makes sense to rush a 300pt flag and camp on it, but if it's just a 100pt. flag, it starts making sense to let your opponent grab it and then nuke him with HE.

This is, in effect, the direction Baron and Ratzki are headed - bunch of small flags in the middle. I suspect the large flags won't really come in to play - if your opponent makes it far enough to seize your large flags, he's already thrashing you, I'd guess.

I've tried games with no flags at all - doesn't really work given how CM scores. Both sides tend to sit back in cover and wait for the other guy to move - the guy who gets hit moving is always going to end up on the short end of the casualty stick, and thus the scoring stick. I remember reading a post somewhere once about someone who tried a no-flag game - both sides crouched in the woods for a while until one player sniped the other causing one casualty, then they got bored and called a CF - it ended as a total loss for the guy who took the casualty because of the ratio scoring.