Fog of war

[RightDeve]

Originally Posted by Wdll

Also, if you are so inclined (I think it is lame, but some might not mind), I believe you can rename your units in a battle so when the enemy sees M-60 firing it could say Pussy-Cat firing. Mind you, I might be wrong on this lol.

LOL
Smart ***!
Once I renamed my "Tiger" unit (in SPWW2) to "PzKw IIa" and my "SdKfz 251/10" to "Tiger".
And that's my favorite hobby to rename units especially in PBeM.

[Imp]

Originally Posted by RightDeve

LOL
Smart ***!
Once I renamed my "Tiger" unit (in SPWW2) to "PzKw IIa" and my "SdKfz 251/10" to "Tiger".
And that's my favorite hobby to rename units especially in PBeM.

It would make very little diffrence exept to slow the game down as the player now looks at your unit info screen each time. Even with several units in a hex use of P & N target would let him chooose the next target, lame idea.

As to the fog of war it models very well considering the game time you dont instantly find units & can often pull off hit & runs with little return fire.

[Suhiir]

The scale of the game, 50m hexes, 2-3 minute turns make that sort of "Fog of War" (FoW) rather "unrealistic".

Let me try to explain why I think this.

For FoW to exist there must be a posibility if not liklihood for misidentification of units.

If one side sees the other sides recon vehicles they may be unable to correctly identify the type of unit they are doing recon for - Armor, Mech, etc. This is FoW.

But at tactical ranges it's pretty easy to identify the type of recon vehicle they're seeing. No FoW.

Any half competent military force WILL spend some time on vehicle recognition before they enter combat with an opponent. And while it is certainly possible for someone to misidentify a vehicle it's unlikly 3, 4, 10 people will.

That make any sense?