Draw is about the best I can get out of an eastern unit now days against the AI. I would not survive 5 turns in this new game against a PC in a PVP this is an entirely new game I need to train, train and train to get in shape with these new units. Sure manoeuvre is the answer only now I will have to get 500 meters from my target vs 1000 in older versions.
Now that may not seem like a big difference for any western oriented player that fights in desert terrain against some Iraqi modifications from An Najaf armour shop but you can be very sure I will notice the difference. I think this is not an issue about east and west, I think those whom promotes this kind of positive special treatment seldom puts themselves in a T55 and roams out in suicide attacks against the green giant and his Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicles. I think they seldom read anything but Janes Defence Magazine (a great magazine) and I think in general not many knows much about the post Gulf War re-armament that continues all the way to our days as new warheads for rocket-propelled launchers reached the market years ago, someone mention Israel vs Saudi Arabia that is a great what IF scenario.
The last armed conflict with Hezbollah (2006) however proved the new RPG rounds deadliness against the Merkava Mk 4 really was at short ranges. They cracked them opened like rotten sardine canisters, it didn’t help the IDF that Hezbollah also had gotten their hands on the Kornet ATGM system either. A lot of things is probably very hard to simulate even with a game engine such as this one I understand that fully, but you do not have to cut the head of the rooster and watch him run around headless bleeding up to make a game balanced. Now that is whining and takes me to the third part of my very long answer.
The prices –
Now Abram Tanks cost a lot and so does an Assad Babyl in comparison the Assad Babyl is inferior to the Abram Tank for more reasons then one. Someone said use the terrain, kick your enemy in the sides and from the behind. I would do that if an Assad Babyl came with a mole attachment to its nose and I could dig myself around or to the side of an Abram tank.
This is the worst example of the above so I picked it. Within urban terrain I can make that Assad Babyl roam and do terrible damage to Abrams no question about that, heck I could even take one out with an old T-55 Enigma with a rear attack from 100 meters (x2 hexes) not kill it but cripple it enough to send in my Infantry to hunt down the fleeing crew.
Problem with the game is that when you meet the AI it is often meeting engagements (Generated Campaigns) and the terrain originally offered is not nice to the player as the AI always get high grounds or other good defensive positions it seems, (vision advantages) now comes this great option Redraw new default map (change visibility) and you can also move around V-hexes to your own advantage that is great, only if doing so the game often turns into a shooting contest with me trying to re-arm while enemy APCs often wheeled APCs in massive flods draws my tanks fire.
I noticed something else when I started this new game. More bonus points here – You can fix the tanks and APCs so they do not engage these light targets but concentrates their vital AP killing rounds against those whom really needs them for you to win as in modified Pattons or M84K or heavily upgraded cold-war medium tanks that always comes with a thermal sight! God I hate that when it happens but now. This function was great. Good work!
What I really could come down to wine about is the RPGs yes you can have hundreds of RPGs but it wont help you a bit if they just bounce off a tank or APC. Now RPG engagements are not supposed to be from the front ever. It is considered suicide in most armies I believe.
They have been tuned down or taken out of commission from crucial units that irl was equipped with the new warheads. If I could have one wish for filled give the RPG-7V back to units that had them in version 3.0 as that made them so much more realistic in urban warfare as the tiny RPG-16s is not much to put up against a western APC at all and even less a western tank, North Korea is the worst nation OOB in the entire WINSPMBT I believe.
They still run around with vintage 60s RPG-7s That is madness. If so we would be in Pyongyang now celebrating our overwhelming victory over Kim Jong Ill. If you want challenge play against AI with North Korea then you will have to fight for every bit of dirt your larva’s enters I can assure you that. A bit more balance and this game will be fine.
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