Warsaw Pact and TI

[Marek_Tucan]

Kuklinovsky said:
Maybe someone could help to explain our poor Tucan that it doesn't solely matter WP will have TI or not in the game!

So why are you fussing so much about it? Esp if you do proclaim the "professionality" below, woudln't it be "professional" to get along with OOB set that is closer to reality (by removing unrealistic equipment) and, when good old "professional" tactics don't work due to the change, just invent new ones?

The main reason is that in reality lack of TI equipment in Warsaw Pact forces would have only twobit impact on result of hypothetical war with NATO in 1980s. Unfortunately in WinSPMBT such configuration cause a huge NATO advantage over WP which practically confronts WP player with hopeless situation due to game engine's rules.

So, let's play professional WinSPMBT 2.51 tactical war game with older OOBs and teens should play WinSPMBT 3.0 arcade!

Unfortunately, as you say "professional" player of SPMBT, if he wants to be true to real life, will get WarPac more purchase points allocation. Also he'll know that since these Hinds don't have TI anymore they will be significantly cheaper meaning he'll have to face more of them. Explain, please, how "Unfortunately in WinSPMBT such configuration cause a huge NATO advantage over WP which practically confronts WP player with hopeless situation due to game engine's rules."? Esp. as in the era we're discussing not all that many Western units have TI's either - Abrams, Leo2, Bradley...and those are pretty expensive. So again, how does this put WP into hopeless situation?
I was able to achieve a neat close victory when clashing Czechoslovakian non-TI units head on with West German force of the same point value with TI Leos in PBEM and I didn't feel like being put into hopeless situation - all I needed was to employ tactics to lure Leos into good position.

Just FYI: In my OOB set the Hind TI removal took place already a long time ago, as well as cutting night sight range of most pre-TI Russian vehicles. Most of times I play for Czechoslovakia and the only change in the tactics is that I don't use Hinds for recon anymore, rather like flying tanks (which is, btw, closer to reality) and for recon I use GSR-equipped BVP-1 base BPzV.

Oh, and BTW, point out, please, who of those who prefer closing to reality by removing unrealistic TI from Hinds here is teen?

BTW2: Still confused, maybe I'll need an explanation once again... How the heck does removing of UNREALISTIC equipment in the game or its altering to REAL equipment turn the game into arcade? Or is reality an arcade?