RE: [DS] Points system was [DS] Hidden Units and Recon by Fire

G'day,

> Remember, the original reason for this whole exercise was to provide 
> an additional cost to armor on a given vehicle and push players to 
> not have everything with max armor protection. If I can make a small 
> recce vehicle with 1 armor and 2 size and still have a good amount of 
> mobility, then the system should support that. If I make it a size 2 
> and 2 armor, then I pay a tiny bit more per unit (3 points). Big 
> deal. Everything is max armor. But, if that recce vehicle is now 
> slower, and I have to use more capacity to speed it back up (or use 
> capacity to make it go even faster at the original configuration) 
> then I've added an additional dimension to vehicles that wasn't there 
> before. It also cost more.

If movement systems also take up capacity (obviously a lot more capacity
is
being spoken over per size class) then putting on extra armour can
involve
going slower if you don't want to sacrifice guns or use miniaturisation.

Cheers