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Question on SP scen and battle setup program - 1/5/2002 12:16:00 PM

Jackk

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Hi all, Looking over this program I like the way it diversifies the forces, but I have a question. Do the points for the battle seem exceptionally low?
For example, I set up a 1943 US-Ger battle with the US assaulting Germany. The program allowed for both armies to have regular infantry backed with 1 sec of TD/Inf tanks per 7-9 platoons of infantry. The US was limited to 5 batteries of medium artillery and the Germans to 5 batteries of medium mortars. Both armies were allowed 1 section of heavy AT and air was limited to 1 section for Germany and 2 for the US. Now, on the adjustments screen it said "Players will command 4-5 Companies" and the buy points were set to US-1410, Ger-1000. Does this sound even remotely right? First the points seem too dang low to buy 4-5 companies, tanks, AT, and air and would a ~1.4:1 ratio be right for an assault/defend scenario? Maybe I should triple the points to make it seem justified. This isn't the only time I tried it, but this was typical of the results it gave. Any comments?

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- 1/5/2002 12:27:00 PM

Alby

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Thats the only way ive figured out to get more points, is just double or triple them.
I dont know why it always sets so low points, but it does.
good program though

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- 1/5/2002 1:49:00 PM

Alexandra

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The best way to use it is to have the players decide how many points to spend, then use the programs force structure to buy forces. Alex

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- 1/6/2002 1:36:00 AM

Jackk

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Thanks for the suggestions. I'll admit that after I played with it for about an hour I started getting larger points....but 2 and 3 thousand still didn't seem enough for 3 battalions with armor support and stuff

Back to the battles......

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- 1/6/2002 1:59:00 AM

Warhorse

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The reason the points are so low is, that Scott Grasse made this back around, or before version 2.3!!! Nice program to provide a ground-work for building your forces though.

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