CMx2 tactical notes and observations

[A Canadian Cat]

I have two comments on the style of testing you just did:

1) many on many battles like these tend to exaggerate the winner.

This happens because after the first kill one side has more tanks and it just goes down hill from there. What this means is that a test setup that would normally be pretty even can end up a lopsided win for one side. Consider if these were all one v one battles against two very evenly matched forces after running the tests you would probably see a trend towards three kills each. But you will not likely see that in many v many tests.

2) one run does not a definitive answer make.

There is a lot of variation built into both spotting and targeting which means that you will get surprises from time to time. So if you do a test and you think the results are strange it could just be that you saw an unusual outcome due to those variables.

My suggestion would be to conduct testing like this in lanes of one v one action. And if you want to see how training and motivation effect things do that testing with the same tank. So T34s vs T34s or PzIVs vs PzIVs and then vary the soft factors only. Then you are really testing just the crews and not the tanks too.