Kingfish Posted October 12, 2000 Share Posted October 12, 2000 During a previous PBEM QB my opponent mentioned that, had he been given a Vickers MG teams, he would have made mincemeat of my infantry counterattacks. Later we started another game with the same parameters but switching sides. I then noticed that I also didn't receive any Vickers in my OOB. Now curious, I decided to run a little test to see how common Vickers MG teams were in randomly selected QBs. I started out at 700 pts, comb. arms, and allowed the computer to choose from the British, Canadian, and Polish armies (all regular infantry, no airborne). I then went to 800 pts and repeated, and continued until I got to 1500 pts. Out of a total of 18 setups I received a Vickers team only once (Canadians - 900 pts). Now, perhaps I didn't run the test long enough to get an accurate reading, or I had a run of bad luck, but it does seem odd to get only one from 18 tries. Has anyone else noticed this, or do you believe is it just a fluke? Also, twice during the test I came up with three Fireflys as my only AFV support! Your thoughts. ------------------ Charlie don't surf! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Kettler Posted October 12, 2000 Share Posted October 12, 2000 Kingfish, I have gotten the Vickers on several other occasions, but I have noticed that the force selection logic seems to have a perverse sixth sense of when not to issue those weapons to me, leaving me in my watching-Landser-Olympics mode from our last game, for example. Since I now know you exist, send me a turn. Regards, John Kettler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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