The Competition & Teaser Thread

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David,

Thanks for the replies!

Another maybe dumb question.

Won't this be like PzC and everybody will lump their units into battalions and not platoon or company sized units? What is going to stop people from putting all the units into one big group and playing PB like a Risk board game?

Won't this will be a company sized game in the end?

Never dumb :)

Firstly the stacking limits will work against you (250 men or equivalent in a hex). A German Grenadier company has 144 men in three platoons. They could only squeeze another two platoons into a hex.

Secondly, you want to stack them up like that? Watch the death that occurs due to you exceeding the hex density limits. That big stack is just perfect for a Rocket strike etc.

Finally you have four times the ground to protect than you do in PzC (250 meter hexes vs 1 kilometre). You want to stack everyone in one or two hexes? Watch your opponent run around you and make life very uncomfortable for that big unit you just corralled for them.

It's a nice game of compromises - you need to group your men into companies dependant on the situation but particularly on the attack. But you can't do it everywhere, all the time and as expected it attracts the bulk of the defenders attention.

David