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It's simple really.... this is not and never was intended to be a game where logistics have anything but a perhiperal use so we are not concerned with "Beans and Bullets" beyond a rudimentary resupply capability and there is absolutly no purpose in the game for "Don Rs " ( or dispatch riders for those who don't know what a "Don R" is ) and. more importatly, neither Andy not I have the least bit of interest in making it so and I really don't belive the vast majority of players would appreciate an expanded logistics role in the game.
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I'm a realism guy as you probably figured out by now. I will point out, that from an organizational standpoint, a Don-R was an established element down to front like units. From a Recce perspective, the Don R-s would either hang out at Squadron HQ OR they'd trail behind the probing armored cars as the last man in. If things went pear shaped, they'd move back to the rear. Using them for a trailing element allows for them to ALSO know where the armoured cars are when they turn into a harbor at night. From a resilience standpoint, jeeps are in the same durability range as a Don-R is.
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However, consider that in the game "a BIG map" covers an area only 2.5 x 2 miles with half that being the enemies part of the front so at best a big map may may represent a mile or so from the actual fighting and most people don't use a really big map to fight on nor the maximum number of turns
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50 meters per hex right? 160x200 hexes are the largest maps I've seen. that's 8000 meters by 10,000 meters. That's nearly 5 miles by 6.2 miles.
Mind you, I was not asking for Don-Rs. I was pointing out, that there is a context for vulnerable vehicles in the FEBA doing their normal business and that when you DO have to move such vehicles forwards it should be under the auspices of some sort of escort. That's one of the duties of Armoured cars. Don-Rs would be, for the most part, be entirely abstract in purpose for the game and I realize that. Though, I suppose it would be interesting as a means of maintaining contact for morale purposes between two levels of HQ. But then we'd have to hang out the Royal Signals lamp and establish a Signals Office somewhere. ;-)