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[Crossroads]

Nice thoughts Cole, thanks for sharing!

And a couple more thoughts!  Going forward, I remember interviews I did with Glenn Saunders and David Freer.  I think it was David that said he used to post on forums concerning CS, especially about armor factors.  Eventually, one of the designers asked him for references (I can't find the quote but basically "put up or shut up").  Going forward, any "good idea" I have about EF III, I'll try to add a reference(s).

This morning I was thinking about on board air recon ability.  If they, for example, spot a regiment of 152mm Russian artillery, it is slow going for that regiment to pack up and move if they use their assigned carriers.  The tracked carriers are very slow, especially compared with each side's stock truck units.  

Thing is, I was reading about Romanian Army transport (Mark Axworthy, Third Axis, Fourth Ally) and he mentions the lack of Romanian cross country ability on the Russian Steepe because they didn't have enough treaded transport and not enough 4WD trucks.  On roads, trucks of all types will go fastest but cross country those treaded artillery carriers were actually fast compared to anything else available.

This reminds me, this is a bit Off Topic, but are you guys aware Avalon Hill ended up significantly revising PB and PL vehicular movement speeds , and especially for cross country movement. Now, PB was a Jim Dunnigan design, so to alter anything was as close to blasphemy as anything. But alter they did. 

As of Arab-Israeli Wars, the vehicular movement factors were reduced to 60% level from original, with a suggestion to do the same for the said two earlier games. 

I checked this a while ago out of curiosity as how Campaign Series was done, for it was the same guys still at Talonsoft right. Turned out the movement factors were very close to AIW, so they had taken this into account. Yet, if cross country movement was very close to AIW, road movement still is a bit in the wild side. 

Ha.