(reposted)
I ordered the Strategy Guide on Monday and picked it up today (Thursday) and was very happy to open it up and find wonderful ideas on tactics, but even more so a nice listing of all the units in the game...BUT THEN!!!
I loaded up some units to compare with the stats, and not a single one was correct in terms of armor penetrations of weapons. Also there is no listing of the amount of ammunition carried by AFVs or ATGs.
Typos? Page 1/9, picture at the bottom, "firled of fire"? Ok I can live with typos, but....
Page 1/19 & 1/20 "The lightning bolt represents command" "The star icon represents HQs with a combat bonus."
Huh? Are you guys even reading what you are writing?
Either I was sent a first edition or the 2nd edition is still fraut with errors. Heck I've only read to page 44 yet...what else is wrong in this book?
I bought the book mainly for stats of units so the fact that every unit I have checked has had errors makes the book a waste of $22.00 ($15+$7shipping)
How can you tell if the book is second edition? My copy does not say 2nd edition on it anywhere.
So I am not happy, and not recommending the guide, at least until they get the stats corrected,
panzer5
P.S. as an example the panzer38(T)E listed on page 2/45 shows maximum penetration of armor for it's main gun as 67/54/39/21. The actual numbers in game are 53/46/34/18. That's almost a 20% difference at the 100m mark...pretty darn significant.
[ September 26, 2003, 01:35 AM: Message edited by: panzer5 ]