Re: Decoys [DS]

Thank you for the accurate summary, O.O. - Excellent point and one near
and dear to my DS2 freak heart!

Gracias,
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On Mon, 06 May 2002 21:56:49 +0200 Oerjan Ohlson
<oerjan.ohlson@telia.com> writes:
>Tomb wrote:
>
>>2. Decoys
>>Oerjan, Beth.... thanks for the feedback. Allow me to take a contrary 
>
>>opinion. Oerjan maintains
>>decoys are beneath the DS2 granularity, I say not. Why? They are NOT 
>>beneath the SG2
>>granularity, and SG2 has ECM and Decoys.
>
>Tomb... you may not have noticed this <g>, but the DS2 mechanics are 
>less 
>detailed than the SG2 ones for *all* weapon types. This is for a 
>reason: if 
>you attempt to play a battalion-sized engagement with SG2-level 
>detail, the 
>game plays very slowly. If all *other* weapon types are less detailed 
>in 
>DS2 than they are in SG2, why would GMSs and their counter-systems be 
>an 
>exception?
>
>Harmonizing DS2 and SG2 only works to up to a certain point - and when 
>you 
>go past that point (and IMO you're well on the way past it), you 
>effectively end up with a single game (SG2) played with two different 
>terrain scales - 1/400, with 15mm or 25mm figures, and 1/4000, with 
>6mm models.
>
>Regards,
>
>Oerjan
>oerjan.ohlson@telia.com
>
>"Life is like a sewer.
>  What you get out of it, depends on what you put into it."
>-Hen3ry
>

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