AmmoSgt
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David I think my email can handle 4 meg. And I for one would apreciate it. I sure don't mean to look like I am hijacking your thread , but it is hard to discuss French penetration issues without bring in the Germans, Poles and Czechs to compare and contrast the weapons velocities in game values, ect , because it is the relative interaction as well as the absolute value assigned that reveals what is right and what is wrong with a specific unit in the game. I'll be the first to admit I don't know that much about French OOB's and I would be happy to learn more.
A knowledge on what a unit actually did on the battlefield is crucial to understanding the proper values assigned as much as the hard specs of armor thickness or gun penetration values .. alot of factors, like the quality of tank gun sights , turret rotation speed, cross country ability, breakdown rates , are hard to quantify without placing them in perspective to other tanks of their day and age, due to the limited span of possible vaules to assign to features like this , but these elements ARE in the game . Creating viable scenarios with proper force composition is necesary to test the game engine's implementation of values asigned and understanding of the effects of moral and experience on hard data points such as gun accuracy.
You need both good specification data and good understanding of softer data such as state of training, doctrinal use, Morale, ect to get a reasonably accurate modeling.
My Suggestion is to bring up any performance descrepancies, so we can look at what might be causing them , either in relationship as to how opposing units are modeled or how improper specs have been asigned. We may argue over relative importance of features and data points in the OOB or what those values may be , based on what data for a given unit , but every Nation in the game needs a strong advocate , familiar with a Nation's History and an accurate understanding on the Battles they fought and the equipment they used.
I for one welcome your efforts and I hope you bring any issues you find to folks attention.
Bazookas may not seem germain to the 1940 period for the French , but they were a key French weapon in 1944 ( and much of the Bazookas development is based on French research ) . So maybe they are not so totally off topic :) .
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