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Old August 5th, 2006, 07:59 PM
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Default Re: Blood idea

*sighs*

Why is it that people so want to go "overboard" with the corpses? Combat Mission did it in a nice, tasteful way; one body per squad/detachment killed.

This is supposed to be a WARGAME, not a "lets see how many people we can kill and stuff into a single hex!"

While I can understand why people would want the equivalent of a vehicle wreck for killed infantry units to "show" the flow and ebb of the battle, e.g. seeing a couple of corpses (one corpse per squad) near a ravine where a platoon was caught in a crossfire by a machine gun emplacement and wiped out; you propose things that go really overboard, with corpses, more corpses, and even more corpses everywhere!