Mike T

Is there any interior house to house fighting or multiple level building fighting modeled?

At the risk of being hauled before the War Crimes Tribunal - is there an option for umm foregoing the opportunity to take prisoners and umm taking no quarter as it were. And if there is, does it have the effect of stiffening your enemies reluctance to surrender.

Great Editorial Fionn. This reminded me of the debate we had a few months back on this board with Bruce Geryk of Games Domain concerning realism and detail in wargames. Unlike most Grognards (I've been playing for 20 years now), I don't tend to strip a game down to its basic numbers to determine how realistic it is, I go by feeling. If it doesn't match up with something I've read about, heard about, or experienced, it isn't realistic. Of course some allowances have to be made for the fact that no historical wargame can be 100% realistic, but if a games company admits that and can justify any alterations to reality or abstractions that it implements rationally to its customers then it can be excused for any shortcomings. On the other hand any company that takes a stand where they say 'that's the way it is because we say so and no one is going to change our mind about it' is too arrogant to deserve the attention of consumers. Unfortunately, with the near monopolistic practises of some of these Gigacorporations we tend to be held ransom to their needs rather than have them cater to our needs - The tail wags the dog. By the way BTS, I think its about time to start a new forum on general topics. This is far too good an opportunity to pass up

Since most squads during WWII contained only one lmg and if you are splitting the squad 50/50, then reasonably one of those two half/squads is going to have the lmg (if you are modeling down to individual weapons as you have indicated). Wouldn't this allow the player to simulate the squad tactics that John was talking about, since the firepower of each HS would be different?

All the accounts I have read about for the German perspective give accounts of their great respect for the Western Allies artillery and fighter bombers (Jabos), the Soviet heavy tanks (T-34, KV's, and JS's), the Soviet sub-machine guns, the British Matilda tank and the French Renault and Souma Tanks, and various other individual types of weapons which they either subsequently used or tried to copy. By most accounts however, the Germans had (or believed they had) the most superior type of equipment in every field. Their biggest problem was that they couldn't supply that equipment in the quantities that were required or, believing that they had the best, they didn't try to improve what they had until it was too late.

Research done at the end of the Second World war showed that most casualties to the infantry were caused by Artillery (mortars and larger), not by small arms or grenades.