swamp Posted July 31, 2000 Share Posted July 31, 2000 I want to address a few issues, some of which have already been brought up, I like a fair fight which is why I like choose your own force quick battles, packaged scens, and balanced user made scens I am pretty competitive and I don't trust anyone, because people aren't honest(unless you're cuban or chinese), which is why it disturbs me that player #2 can not view the parameters before accepting the battle or choosing forces or viewing the map, for examples, I've played a guy who set up a qb scen at dawn and with fog, had I known I wouldn't have bought the heavymachine guns and other long range units, another example, my opponent created a map and told me to defend, but he arrainged 5 small victory hexes spread across the map in a straight line extending to either edge I found that very hard to defend, it guarenteed that I would have to make a counter attack at some point unless I wanted to split my forces into a couple small, weak groups but all this is fine, what really disturbs me, as I usually let my opponent set up the game, is the handcap setting how is player #2 supposed to know what this is set at? other games I've played make this information available to both sides I played a meeting engagement in which I was the allies and my opponent was the axis, I spent the max amount of points on infantry, during the battle I found out that we each had 3 infantry platoons, but I noticed that while all my units were regular, all his were veteran, this led me to suspect he had more points to spend than I did? btw I'm not complaining because I'm no good at the game, I am undefeated in pbem with a 7-0 record against various board members, and I finish all my games please tell me I'm a fool if I'm missing something and I need more opponents jwaltn@earthlink.net Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ncounio Posted July 31, 2000 Share Posted July 31, 2000 No way to figure it out unless to trust your opponent. Well you can do rough calculation at the end of the battle but that is a painfull process ------------------ Nicolas "Deux intellectuels assis vont moins loin qu'une brute qui marche" Un Taxi Pour Tobrouk [This message has been edited by ncounio (edited 07-31-2000).] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Madmatt Posted July 31, 2000 Share Posted July 31, 2000 Actually IIRC, the readme for the 1.03 patch says that a PBEM player will get a message indicating any and all Handicap settings that in place when they first begin a game that player 1 intiated. That way they will know if any handicaps are being used. Madmatt... ------------------ If it's in Combat Mission, it's on Combat Mission HQ! CMHQ-Annex, The Alternative side of Combat Mission Combat Mission HQ CMHQ-Annex Proud members of the Combat Mission WebRing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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