The Competition & Teaser Thread

[GerryM]

It is a very interesting conundrum. Multilevel buildings also give LOS to units over intervening lower buildings. So units at the top could fire over these intervening buildings. But if an attacker is on the floor below them they should probably be restricted to combat against these adjacent units.

At this scale of platoons/companies can you really have multiple level buildings? Or do you handle it with some form of abstraction?

Gerry

I think only the SqB or PzB system could be used for a title such as Stalingrad. If you want room to room fighting you need to go to SqB's or a scale below for it to work. PzB's with its platoon basis is about the limit for detailed city fighting.

The other changes that PzB (or any other game) would need to handle is the impact of multilevel buildings as well as the sewers. These were factors that strongly influenced the control (or lack) of any area. As pointed out, 250 meter hexes are more like city blocks and determining ownership in three dimensions could be difficult. Another consideration is that the map would have to be custom built with a much wider range of building types that could be manually placed in the configurations required. All cities are well mapped and players fighting in Berlin or Stalingrad would want to play on an accurate facsimile of that map.

Now that said, if these technical issues could be solved you could have a brilliant platoon/company simulation of city fighting. I am imagining opposing forces coexisting in the same hex if they are on different height levels, only assaulting if at the same level.

Another alternative is to change the hex size and stacking limits so more detailed map can be done and only say platoons can be in a particular hex. The game system is flexible enough to do it.


DON'T get me thinking about another project...!

David