April 11th, 2018, 09:30 PM
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Re: Question on infantry SAMs
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Originally Posted by shahadi
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Originally Posted by jp10
Maybe, if the target was flying directly at the Blowpipe team, the hit percentage may increase, otherwise, it is a poor weapon system in the game as it was in real life.
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A bit off-topic, but in WINSP are targets moving ACROSS the firing unit's LOS more difficult to hit than those moving directly towards or away from them? My impression was that target size. speed and elevation were the prime variables. Thanks. |
I was merely musing.
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Originally Posted by Mobhack
Target aspect has no effect in these rules, only range at point of firing. Cannot think of any rule set that had any such calculation (tabletop or cardboard shuffling) bar some air-air game of the 70s where you had to fly missiles and planes in 15 second(?) phases broken down into sub-phases that was incredibly unworkable, our wargames club tied it about 4 times and gave up when you could only do about 4-5 15 second turns in an evenings play with about 4 planes.
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Thanks for neatly clearing that up.
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