[SG] Vehicles and Infantry

Allan said:

>(I can supply some guesses: 
Appropriately 
>strong anti-vehicle weapons, spotting 
(infantry 
>often live by being below the radar of 
more 
>obnoxious unit types), and a bias to be 
more 
>concerned about other vehicular threats). 

Vehicles only have two actions, same as a 
squad. It would
seem to me that a vehicle all by its 
lonesome is still going
to be in trouble, even with realistic 
defensive weapons. I
suspect that Jon was more worried about 
vehicles dominating
the game than he really needed to be.

[Tomb] Ah yes, but the discussion I'm 
having is the opposite. To wit: Make a 
vehicle behave appropriately (for example, 
if the crew is all manning a weapons 
station, let them all fire in the same fire 
action). Let them fire on the move. Then, 
you suddenly HAVE the risk of domination. 
What then deters vehicles from dominating 
in real life? The unknown nature of combat 
(ie who is behind each bush - lots of 
spots), where are the enemy tanks (worry 
for all armour units), how hard are the 
infantry to spot (if hiding, probably very), 
etc. I'm suggesting trying a model where 
the tanks and other vehicles are modelled 
as more ferocious, but their limitations are 
also modelled to compensate. Call it a 
thought excercise or an excercise in 
simulation. It isn't for everyone, but I'm 
already a self admitted "simulationist" 
rather than a "tabletop gamer". 

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