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AmmoSgt -> Pandering and Arty delays (4/7/2002 7:33:05 PM)
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Just started a generated campaign as the Germans against the Russians ..June 41 ..I don't normally play as the Germans ..Thought I would give it a try ..
Noticed that the Germans have .02 delay 81mm and 50mm mortars and .05 delay offboard and wulfrhaum units ..right from the start .. not all of them, I will admit , but about 1/3 of the arty was that fast .. and this was the first game in the campaign , with default experience numbers ...
I don't think handicaping the Germans with fantasy artillery response times will help Matrix earn a reputation as a producer of serious wargames .. I know most folks on the forums have seen the discusions about the historical factors that go into the various Nations Arty response times ... I know that there are limits on how accurately they can be portrayed .. and I know that the AI can use the help , any help, it can get .. But what is a serious and skilled player to do if they want to play as the Germans ... Punching up the German Arty response time to the totally fictious , near US and British speeds, makes playing as the Germans way to easy and no challenge at all ..
This game has degenerated into a pandering contest.. Experience ratings that are obviously bogus so as not to offend any countries that might honestly deserve low ratings.. inflated FC ratings for the German infantry, usually a couple of points higher than any other country for similar units .. questionable padding of German ammo with extra Tungsten rounds .. and now some kinda half-assed parity with US and British Arty response times ... It's sad ... and I will not accomplish what folks want it to do .. at some point even the most avid German player will want to win an honest game , played with all the advantages and all the HANDICAPS the Germans actually had ... as it now stands if you can't get a decisve victory against the AI playing as the German you need to stick to checkers .
One can quibble with some of the armor and penetration values that have been increased for the Germans and decreased for the Russians in 7.0 .. But there is no historical basis for this latest pandering to the whiners that refuse to learn actual tactics and would rather whine for hours to get non-German units dumbed down and German units beefed up so they can beat the AI ... it's just flat out lame . I also noticed that the US , which is the only nation that had the communication assests and doctrine to justify single mortars, is still stuck with mulitiple mortars .. and now the Germans have single mortars allowing a battery to engage as many targets as tubes , which they couldn't do even on a good day with a tail wind .. while the US which routinely called single tube per target, can't. There is no historical reason for this .. it has to be the constant whining and begging to dumb down all the non-german nations so the germans can win a game and pretend they know tactics ..it is really really lame to have to win that way .
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