Combat Routines

[Pyros]

Hi Chris,

Just a small question...

Did you experience these in a pbem or in a solitaire battle?

If you experienced these in a pbem then perhaps it isn't the fault of your "crappy" luck...

cheers,

[Stirling]

These things aren't new to this version of SP. There have always been combat results that are absurdly unrealistic due to the abstraction of the game (every computer game is an abstraction, at best--even simulations).

I quit playing SPWAW because I got sick and tired of 76mm rounds routinely bouncing off of halftracks. SPMBT and SPWW2 seem to be much better in this respect. If an outcome is especially egregious, I just assume something happened that the UI isn't refined enough to tell me (i.e. a missile was a dud when all the game can tell me is that it didn't penetrate).

Still, there are some results that I just have to hold my nose and try to ignore. Fortunately these are pretty rare.

[Weasel]

It was in PBEM. I am not *****ing about the game, I just know that after 250 games that in the DOS version the AAA would have fired, and the M113 would be long dead.

Thus the question, were the combat routines changed etc. I have noticed that some players are stating that the MBTs are not as tough in winMBT as in the DOS version, especially the M1. I have not noticed this yet myself but it does lend itself to my question.