Re: [GZG] Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi!

>Last I checked, artillery still made every stop and take notice. 
>Flash forward to the future of smart artillery and really there is 
>no reason that everything on the battlefield will have something to 
>fear from artillery.
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>-Eli

Exactly; leaving us with three options to make it work in the game
setting:

1) make artillery unrealistically ineffective with no justification 
except saying "it's for game balance";

2) reduce artillery effectiveness against high-tech forces by 
reasonably plausible PSB such as extremely good point-defence energy 
weapons (the Hammer's Slammers approach), which is fine unless you're 
the low-tech player on the receiving end...

3) reduce artillery dominance by drastically restricting the 
AVAILABILITY of fire missions, and accept the fact that when it IS 
available, it will be very, very deadly indeed.

I certainly favour (3), with a bit of (2) mixed in where applicable....
YMMV!

Jon (GZG)

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>From: "Michael" <mwsaber6@msn.com>
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>"Here at Ortillery Command we have at our disposal hundred megawatt 
>laser beams, mach 20 titanium rods and guided thermonuclear bombs. 
>Some people say we think that we're God. We're not God. We just 
>borrowed his 'SMITE' button for our fire control system."
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>On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 5:46 AM, John Tailby 
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>  the games seemed to have artillery as the god of the battlefield ...
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>Artillery isn't call King of Battle for nothing my man.
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