Re: MBT's
Ever since the start of WW II (and a bit before in the Spanish Civil War) there has been an on-going "war" between infantry and armor.
One or the other gains an advantage, the other counters it. This isn't going to stop anytime soon, if ever.
The BIG issue (from my prospective) is cost.
A Sherman tank cost $33,000 in 1942, a TOW missile (just the missile) cost $93,640 in 1984. This is one of the reasons we don't see the "classic" Russian horde anymore, it's just to expensive to field large amounts of top tier equipment. This is why many "first world" nations are developing/fielding less expensive armor units to supplement their "top tier" ones.
This creates a bit of a problem for WinSPMBT because it's several hundred (thousand?) "pick lists" do not, and cannot, allow it to effectively generate battles with few "top tier" armor units and multiple "2nd rate" ones. A tank is a tank is a tank to the pick lists. Rarity codes can somewhat alleviate this BUT would require multiple version of the same tank with different rarity codes ... which the vast majority of OOBs just plain don't have room for.
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Last edited by Suhiir; September 7th, 2020 at 12:53 AM..
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