"Subtle and insubstantial, ...

[Capt. Pixel]

"These aren't the droids, er uh, Rangers you're looking for."

(yeah, that'd work :p )

[WhiteRook]

Aye, Capt. you are correct! Don't sweat it - I think you have represented your point very well....
What transpires between friends in the gaming area is just a whole WORLD apart from the general gaming community!

[Capt. Pixel]

"The ultimate in disposing one's troops is to be without ascertainable shape. Then the most penetrating spies cannot pry in nor can the wise lay plans against you."

-Sun Tzu

Now, you know THIS guy was nobody's fool!

[zaxilon]

I tend to agree with a lot of your logic and your ideas were pretty funny reading. I have been a gamer for many decades. Had many decades with board games and micro armor miniatures on sand tables before the personal computer came about.

Haveing actually been under fire and seen some combat I can tell you that it is quite rare in my experience that you would know much of the information you can glean via the game mechanics. For example wether it is the 1st squad or the 3rd squad of the 2nd Plt or the 3rd Plt unless you were slapping yourselves around with E-tools. Even then I dont think you would be trying to figure out which squad you were up against. Just a point I was compelled to make for many of the gamers out there.

I can tell you that as to which weapons are being used against you, you would most likely have a pretty accurate idea of just exactly what was being brought to bear. Especially with respect to any kind of artillery. There is a big difference between 60mm and 80mm mortars as well as 105's and 155's that even them most dim witted grunt could readily discern. The same is pretty much true for small arms of a rifle squad variety or crew served weapons.

IMHO, the problem with gaming is that you have a very accurate idea of how accurate your intel is. Which defeats the fog of war aspect which should keep you honest. I dont mean you Capt. Pixel, I mean keeping your tactics honest with the situation. So I do agree with what I think you are trying to say here. I dont have a problem with somebody changing the names, hey if I am slow enough to not catch it then I earned the bushwhack.

I would like to see the fog of war aspect greatly enhanced in SPWAW. I think it adds flavor to gaming.

Later,
Zaxilon

[Tommy]

Originally posted by Capt. Pixel
Now here's some things to mull over -

..snip..

It's said that Rommel couldn't sleep at nights after using telephone poles and brush dragging kubelwagens to mislead British aerial recon into believing he really DID have tanks. (I think he might have been ashamed over what he did to Tommy)

Now hold on there Gents! What I and FM Rommel did in that tent that night was perfectly honourable. It, in no way, involved the improper use of telephone poles. Although the presence of that many sheep certainly raised a few eyebrows; wink wink, nudge nudge.

Tommy

"The British Navy - where the Men are Men and the sheep are nervous" John Belushi

[Goblin]

Tommy,

I don't believe you guys have anything to be ashamed of! You were training the sheep for action 'behind' enemy lines, right?:eek:

Goblin

[panda124c]

You forgot one underhanded trick. In the desert if you move a vehical it leave a dust trail, if you cancel the movement the dust trail remains and the vehical returns to it's original position. So you could take a couple of trucks and make it look like the entire German Army is approaching. Well they will not let me mount aircraft engines with propellers on trucks so I do what I can.

[AJVa]

Originally posted by pbear
... if you cancel the movement the dust trail remains and the vehical returns to it's original position...

Oh yeah... and you could use it as a teleporter, but that would be cheating... right? :rolleyes: