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

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prefer a nice balance of 2 & 3. Given a choice I'll take 2 over 3.

-Eli

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From: Ground Zero Games <jon@gzg.com> 

> >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. 
> > 
> >-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) 
> 
> > 
> > 
> >-------------- Original message -------------- 
> >From: "Michael" 
> > 
> >"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." 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >Michael Brown 
> >mwsaber6@msn 
> > 
> > 
> >From: Damond Walker 
> >Sent: Monday, July 07, 2008 12:01 PM 
> >To: gzg-l@vermouth.csua.berkeley.edu 
> >Subject: Re: [GZG] Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi! 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 5:46 AM, John Tailby 
> ><john_tailby@xtra.co.nz> wrote: 
> > 
> > the games seemed to have artillery as the god of the battlefield ...

> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >Artillery isn't call King of Battle for nothing my man. 
> > 
> > 
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