The Competition & Teaser Thread

[jimcrowley]

The question of facing is perhaps moot at the company level; maybe less so when considering platoons. Unless I am misremembering, CS had an optional armour facing rule but, there again, that was a purely platoon based gamed. I'm intrigued by the 'mechanism' mentioned by David, above, and how it will reflect, or impact, facing.

One area that I found very frustrating in both CS and PzC was a very tight time limit on most scenarios, particularly the smaller ones. You could be very close to fulfilling all of your objectives and the clock would suddenly stop and game over - a loss or draw instead of the victory another turn or two would have yielded. This gave the scenarios more of a 'puzzle' aspect forcing you to keep trying until you got a decent result.

Of course battles were, to a great extent, fought to a time table but that often went out of the window and the battle was still fought to a conclusion, win or lose. I would love to see a feature whereby you could continue on past the allocated time, perhaps at the cost of x victory points for every extra turn taken, still losing if you take too many extra turns. Far more realistic and satisfying IMO.

The other area that always concerns me with an upcoming wargame is the potential performance of the AI. Seeing a lot of H2H-only or one-sided scenarios always suggests a poor AI and while I fully expect the usual 'not as good/fun as against a human', I do hope the AI in PB is robust enough to allow solo play from both sides, in all or most of the supplied scenarios.