| Bashytubits | 14 Apr 2017 10:00 p.m. PST |
Have you ever played a game where you felt slightly outclassed?
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| Coyotepunc and Hatshepsuut | 14 Apr 2017 10:15 p.m. PST |
Hmmm… knocking a grenade down a tank barrel with a tennis racket… Tricky, but it can be done. |
| sillypoint | 14 Apr 2017 11:16 p.m. PST |
Often…we have modellers in our group, so sometimes things get on the table for the look, not the play balance, but it often evens out in the long run. |
| Supercilius Maximus | 15 Apr 2017 1:45 a.m. PST |
Hmmm… knocking a grenade down a tank barrel with a tennis racket…Tricky, but it can be done. When RAF pilot Bob Stanford-Tuck was shot down over France in early 1942, the Germans who captured him frog-marched him over to the AA gun he had been strafing. Thinking he was going to be hanged for killing their comrades, he was rather surprised when they started slapping him on the back and shouting, "Guter schuss, Englander!" and pointing at the barrel of the AA gun, which looked like a peeled banana after he had put a round straight down the barrel. |
robert piepenbrink  | 15 Apr 2017 4:27 a.m. PST |
The idea is not that the forces match, but that both sides have a chance--and a roughly equal chance--of gaining their objective. Otherwise, it would be 2000 point armies in the middle of the table every time. Yes, I have sometimes been given unlikely or even impossible objectives. More often, I've felt outclassed because my opponent knew the rules and tactics much better. |
| Dynaman8789 | 15 Apr 2017 5:27 a.m. PST |
Poor tank, doesn't stand a chance in that Tennis match. No arms you see… As for in games that I play, depends on the scenario, in a good scenario design the forces may be totally mismatched while each side still has an equal achieve their objectives and win the game. |
| TMPWargamerabbit | 15 Apr 2017 7:22 a.m. PST |
Would you be the umpire and call fault on the tank? |
| wrgmr1 | 15 Apr 2017 8:42 a.m. PST |
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| Weasel | 15 Apr 2017 9:09 a.m. PST |
Close'ish, super outmatched only by prior agreement. |
| Ottoathome | 15 Apr 2017 9:22 a.m. PST |
Always It's part of the system. |
| Cerdic | 15 Apr 2017 11:15 a.m. PST |
Balanced enough – none of them have fallen over…. |
| Lascaris | 15 Apr 2017 11:29 a.m. PST |
Depends, if doing a stand alone scenario both sides will stand a chance. If part of a campaign, anything goes. |
 Extra Crispy  | 15 Apr 2017 1:16 p.m. PST |
I once played a space game where the baddies across form me: (a) Moved faster
(b) Fired further I made a left turn across the front of my two allies to go fight someone I could reach. It was a bad day for our side! |
| zoneofcontrol | 15 Apr 2017 5:16 p.m. PST |
Looking at the OP, didn't Lord Tennis-son write "The Charge Of The Light Brigade"? |
| Supercilius Maximus | 16 Apr 2017 3:34 a.m. PST |
So how balanced are the forces in your battles? Mentally? Mostly ok, but not too sure about the CO…… |
 etotheipi | 16 Apr 2017 12:51 p.m. PST |
Poor tank, doesn't stand a chance in that Tennis match. I don't think it can suppress the elevation enough to get one in. So how balanced are the forces in your battles? Very balanced, with respect to the scenario objectives. Assault/Defend ratios are the classic example of having more firepower on one side is necessary to have balanced forces. Have you ever played a game where you felt slightly outclassed? Now that is a different question. Every time I sit across the table from SWMBO or DOM, I feel more than slightly outclassed. |
 Legion 4  | 17 Apr 2017 6:50 a.m. PST |
That MBT is going to chew up that tennis court ! Bob Stanford-Tuck Now that's some good shoot'n pard'ner !  |
