Re: My own comments on Re: mixing technology force in Dirtside

On Thu, 17 Jun 2004, John Atkinson wrote:

> --- John K Lerchey <lerchey@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:
>
>> To be fair (or whatever) I designed this force of
>> what I had sitting in a
>> box when I decided that I wanted to build a DSII
>> Absolutely.	No argument at all.  By the same token,
>> it was pretty clear
>> that the French during that period were fully
>> prepared to win WWI.  Sadly
>
> And would have!  Char 1s would be really great to
> break through trench lines defended by machine gun
> nests.  The French fielded a force any officer in 1917
> or 1918 would have loved to have and probably would
> have won the war.
>

Yup. :)

> I'm a GEV addict in the original game.  Can't have
> that, I end up with SHVY and HVY and very little
> finesse.  Missle tanks are just too slow in my
> opinion.
>

Yup.  That's why they're "Slow Tracked" for DSII. :)

>> quite cutting edge.	Thus, the MBTs have HKPs
>> instead of MDCs (OGRE
>> secondary batteries are MDCs, so I wanted the MBTs
>> to be not quite as
>> good), but OTOH, the tank destroyers do have MDCs,
>> albeit in a fixed mount
>> (those things look like Swedish S tanks!).  I wanted
>
> Which mini is that?
>

It's the Combine Yankee light tank.  You can likely see a pic of it at 
warehouse 23.  The ones I'm using as Tank Destroyers are actually larger

(Ral Partha) than the warehouse 23 ones, but are designed about the
same. 
I have no idea of why the ones from SJG are smaller, but I use the
smaller 
ones as MICV/command tanks.

>> I agree with that as well.  However, most rules
>> don't.  Thus, if you're
>
> Is it just me or can you sit down with every single
> in-print Nappy game (and all the OOP ones too) and
> determine which nation the designer has stacks and
> stacks of lead for, and which ones he just can't work
> up the interest to buy lead for?
>

It's not just you.  Most napoleonic rule writers think that Napoleon was

infallable, and that his troops were better than anyone elses around. 
Then some will be Anglofiles, and that's about it. :)

J