Re: [GZG] [OFFICIAL] Question: was Re: [SG3]: What if?

["John Lerchey" <lerchey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I disagree.  Adding "bots" (remote controlled gun drones, terminators, etc.) simply modifies the specific sides infantry.  They are all still able to be engaged by "standard" infantry, and do not have to remove the fun of the game.

Then again, I like DS types of battles with companies to battalions, so my take on what such might do to SG is somewhat limited. :)

J

> On Feb 8, 2008 1:15 PM, John Lerchey <lerchey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> And yet, on Future Weapons, they've been showing small tracked bots
>> (remote control - I actually have issue with "robot" being used for
>> remote control, but who cares?) about the size of a german shepard that
>> can be armed with an M249, grenade launcher, multi-shot ATM launcher,
>> etc.  Pretty neat, and it keeps the humans further from direct harm.
>> So, I can see where remote control man-sized gun platforms could easily
>> start to, maybe not replace, but enhance infantry.  In fact, that might
>> be a neat thing for me to try out in DS3.  The basic rules are in place
>> for remote controlled vehicles. I just need to whip up some suitable
>> small tracked small arms platforms for playtesting.  I even have a
>> force that I don't have infantry selected for that I could try it out
>> on. :)
> 
> You can handwave what ever you like--although I suspect that the economic
> costs of training infantrymen/controllers AND buying remotes for them AND
> the recovery and maint assets will be prohibitive for a long, long time.
> 
> Which won't stop people from designing them, putting them on TV, or 
> inserting them into wargames.
> 
> It's really a question of what do you want to include?
> 
> Personal suggestion:  Anything that makes infantry combat essentially 
> unrecognizable ('X-ray vision' effects that make terrain and LOS 
> irrelevant, masses of combat drones, etc) is going to:
> 
> a) be impossible to simulate effectively due to the high complexity and
> lack of data b) change the game so much that it is no long a fun game
> about infantry combat, but a miniature version of Robot Wars, which may be
>  fun, but is NOT the strength of Jon Tuffley's ground combat games.
> 
> John -- "Thousands of Sarmatians, Thousands of Franks, we've slain them
> again and again.  We're looking for thousands of Persians." --Vita
> Aureliani
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John K. Lerchey
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