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limburger
The image of the ‘armored platoon’ says you need 2 vehicles.
It doesn’t say that both have to be tanks … although the min/max-ers are likely to take two tanks (and use whatever is the biggest bang for the points as well).
Besides, we don’t know the points cost so we don’t know what will be possible.
One of the best things about historical games is that once you get into it you can go down the rabbit hole if you want to.
So what if folk start out with Tigers and a few troops ?
Maybe they start digging into the history and either pick a set of rules that is more simulationist or simply change their army list to something that more accurately reflects what a real army would have been like.
Games are always best enjoyed with like minded friends.
At the end of the day WaaahLaad wants to make a profit and we want to have an enjoyable game.
We can complain all day long about the bit of info we’ve got, but based on what has been released so far I am liking what I’m seeing. The old system was far too gamey. This new version feels like a step in the right direction and to me that’s good enough.
BA was never and most likely won’t ever be a set of rules for folk who crave historical accuracy from day 0.
IMHO that is a good style of game to have, because it opens the hobby to folk who might not have considered ‘historical’ games.
Heck … look at how Warren went from ‘add UFO to a stug army’ to trying to write rules for the crusades …
Maybe I’m a bit biased, because I’ve pre ordered my copy.
Only a fool walks into McDonalds and expects a 5 star meal. I’d say we need to approach rules for (historical) games like that as well. What are they trying to do and how good are they at getting to that goal ?
