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Question, do you TEST any of these ideas in the game or just look at stats ? When you play are you actually seeing Iraqi T-72's out gunning Abrams shot for shot? Are you Abrams running out of shots before an Iraqi T-72 in a one to one tank battle?

No, they are not

If you take Iraqi RG T-72's circa mid 1990's with their normal country training and experience / moral modifiers on they have 3 shots per turn. If you take US Abrams they are split about 50/50 4 shots with a few per platoon 3. What would you like us to do... reduce the T-72's to 2 shots? Or boost the Abrams to 4 and 5 shots? Oh wouldn't that be a "fun" game. Why even bother to play? They already slice through the T-72's.

Guess what happens when you take those Iraqi tanks and reduce the ROF down to 5 ?? You'll know this because I'm sure you already tested your theory-------- the number of shots available to the secondary weapons drops 1 point. Still 3 shots on the main gun though !. Hmmmm what happens when I reduce that ROF to 4? Why not a thing. The same numbers come up for main armament and secondary weapons like TMG and CMG.

So, what have we learned? That reducing the ROF has a negligible effect on main gun armament ROF as the main determinator of that number is crew experience and moral and if we did reduce the number of shots available to the Russian built tanks to actually make a difference you could see in the game we all might as well just take up golf because only a complete masochist would waste his time playing with Russian equipment that has 2 shots give that would be the average after you dropped the number by one as you seem to want.

Oh , and one last thing. The code has small penalties built in that affect FC and accuracy when the tank crew is less than 4. So the Russian equipment with the added ROF because of the autoloader has penalties because it has 3 crew members

As for the your question about the French. No, they didn't sell the tech to the east block and if you'd spent even ten minutes testing some of this before pounding out questions on the keyboard you would have found the ONLY thing having 8 ROF does to the Leclerc is give it one extra shot for its CMG and AAMG. That's it. The sum total of 8 ROF vs 6 ROF in real game terms.

And finally, lets take the most expensive Russian tank in the inventory in August 2005. My OOB's have had the points adjusted so in these OOB's that would be a T-80UM1 Bars and throw it up against a M1A2 SEP Abrams. "Country training" is on so this is the way most people would fight these to vehicles. The T-80s are allowed , right down the line through two companies of tanks 3 shots from the main armament and ONE shot from the 9M119M2 Refleks.( and they LOSE that Refleks shot if they move ) Now lets look at the SEP. 4 shots from the main gun for the most part, sometimes 3 but that is, once again, mostly experience and moral that boosts that number upwards. So under normal game conditions the western tanks are already getting 1 extra shot and the code already has a small tweak to penalize the three man Russian crews. It would be as ridiculous to over all game play to reduce the Russian to 2 shots as it would to jack up the western tanks to 4 and 5 shot averages



Don