ORIGINAL: castor troy
ORIGINAL: LoBaron
ORIGINAL: vicberg
You can't bombard with tank units. But they are in the hex and subject to counter-battery fire. It's the extreme losses of tank units that's in question. At a more base level, it's the artillery game mechanics. Gobstopper, I believe, has it right. They nerfed the artillery fire routines, but not the counter-battery artillery fire routines. Caster Troys numbers remind me of the death-star days
This is absolutely possible.
But with this weird stack you got nothing at hand for credible conclusions.
I BET that those weird results with stacks of doom happen also because CT neglects the "reserve" mode based on what his current intentions are.
I BET that those tanks were all on "defend" OP mode.
He ignores repeated comments on penalties to overstacking for ALL services (Land/Air/Naval) at the cost of diminishing returns.
We have not the slightest idea what the fort levels at Darwin are.
We have not the slightest idea on fatigue level of his troops.
He looks brutally anemic on infantry.
The Japanese troops on the other hand look like a quite balanced force.
So basically my conclusion when I read something like this is that its a single extreme example (and from the looks there are a LOT of extremes here) and Castor Troy uses
it to deliver a point that might or might not be correct, but which is for sure not proven with such a post.
Concidering all the above I can only shrug. [8|]
being a member in the C&C forum too? With your fantasy you could also justify the results of that game. What you ignore is reality and even what you see because if it´s obvious that something is not working right you still obey the magic devs that say "it´s right" just to find out it was not wad... have we seen that already? Yes we have... perhaps you want to dig out these threads. Considering all the above I wonder why I even answer.
I wonder what´s not clear to you, if most of the US artillery on the map opens up fire to do a bombardment and the "counterfire" (which magic counterfire are we talking about?) of a couple of Japanese units suddenly destroys more or less full tank units then you must be either total ignorant or drunk at 8:00 am to think that´s correct. I´m not arguing about the damage done by the ALLIED artillery, I´m arguing about the counterfire. Open your eyes and turn on what´s behind of them. All your funny "reasons" for the counterbombardment results sure are good. Very reasonable for sure. Heck, even better than the advise to shock attack.
Ah and before I forget:
We don´t even know it the destroyed vehicles are really tanks.
They could be eng vehicles or motorized support (although I am not sure if this counts as a vehicle) when I look at this troop composition...
