Points balance was Re: grav

I guess I have to ask - Effective for what?  Multi-role?  Vacuum combat?

Specialist vehicles in a mixed arms organization?   I find point systems
are inherently unbalanced no matter what they are set up to do since the
scenarios can unbalance a system where balance is defined as 'line them
up and shoot until one side is dead...' even if that system is
internally
coherent and "balanced" for that.

The Holy Grail of war games - balamnced points systems...

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On Mon, 19 Nov 2001 16:12:30 -0800 "Brian Bilderback"
<bbilderback@hotmail.com> writes:
>My question was rhetorical - the point being that for the game to be 
>fair 
>and balanced,	a walker, while having a different set of abilities and 
>
>limitations different from those of a Grav tank or a tracked tank, 
>should be 
>just as effective a unit in the game as any other vehicle costing the 
>same 
>amount of points.
>
>Brian
>
>"The Irish are the only race of people on Earth for which 
>psychoanalysis is 
>of no use."
>
>				  - S. Freud
>
>
>>From: Binhan Lin <Lin@RXKINETIX.com>
>>Reply-To: gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
>>To: "'gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu'" <gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu>
>>Subject: RE: grav
>>Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 16:55:51 -0700
>>
>>The reason to incorporate them is to allow people to use universes 
>where
>>they are more common - i.e. anime.  As long as the rules exist, then 
>it
>>makes it easier for people to adapt a different background to canon 
>rules.
>>If walkers did not exist above size one, how could you run a Gundam 
>or
>>Macross type game?
>>
>>--Binhan
>>
>>
>> >Not necessarily--some things are silly regardless of
>> >how you point them.  For instance walkers above size
>> >1.
>>
>>Silly, yes.  But if they're allowed, they should be just as useful as 
>any
>>other unit.  Otherwise, why bother incorporating them into the rules?
>>
>>Brian
>>
>>
>
>
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