The bigest mystery in forth comming SoW - The Humans...

[Igo kyu]

Originally Posted by Thunderbolt56

The hard part would be the slow, gruesome crawl through no man's land in the middle of the night.

Does anyone else remember the UK TV series "Manhunt"?

[robtek]

I think what is overlooked by the people who promote a combined land - sea - air - simulation is the different time scale of the scenarios. a plane takes at most 30 min. to target (in il2), a tank would have to drive 2 to 4 hours and a ship would have to sail a few days. Thats rather impractical for online - gaming, imagine a skipper after sailing a few hours meets a swordfish or respectively a stuka. And i bet with a realistic DM nobody would take a sherman vs a tiger or even panther.(ok maybe when the tiger cannot move because he is out of fuel)

[Igo kyu]

Originally Posted by robtek

And i bet with a realistic DM nobody would take a sherman vs a tiger or even panther.(ok maybe when the tiger cannot move because he is out of fuel)

When a tank is out fuel, it is still just as dangerous, unlike a fighter. With tanks, one hit (from within range) is usually a kill. The thing about Shermans was they were easily better than the Mark three panzer, and cheap to build. The only Sherman that was any good against the Mark four panzer, Tiger or Panther was the Sherman-firefly.

I do like the occasional FPS, but when I want a change from that I want to fly, and I don't want that flying to be in an FPS.

[Zoom2136]

Originally Posted by robtek

I think what is overlooked by the people who promote a combined land - sea - air - simulation is the different time scale of the scenarios. a plane takes at most 30 min. to target (in il2), a tank would have to drive 2 to 4 hours and a ship would have to sail a few days. Thats rather impractical for online - gaming, imagine a skipper after sailing a few hours meets a swordfish or respectively a stuka. And i bet with a realistic DM nobody would take a sherman vs a tiger or even panther.(ok maybe when the tiger cannot move because he is out of fuel)

Well you have to realise that not all allied/axis units should start from the same area... as it was in real life... Once in the theatre of operation the ground units where mainly found near the front line and their supply base/rolling units were not far behind. So they did not roll out from an air base 40 miles away... but from a supply "depot" mearly a few km back of where the action was... This was also true of GIs.

Ships are another thing all together. For BOB, if only the chanel is modeled then they should not have to go to long before seing some action, as it is a norrow strech of sea. Open seas could pause a problem, but as we are looking at online here, maps should be made to prevent the situation you are describing.