SG2 Battle report (partial)

1 posts ยท Apr 19 2001

From: Andy Cowell <andy@c...>

Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 09:43:10 -0500

Subject: SG2 Battle report (partial)

I'm working up a battle report for my site. I'm hoping to make it sort of an
intro to the game for folks that are curious. It's pretty raw right now, but
all the graphics are up. Take a look. One error I saw is that the sniper is
still marked hidden, even after spotted via recon by fire on turn 4.

http://www.cowell.org/~andy/min/sg2/rpt/fct-esu/

I used a squad card deck to draw units to move. All cards of the same force
that were revealed in sequence were all allowed to move at the same time, then
all cards for the other side, etc... This seemed fine, but the one unusual
thing I found was when your command unit was drawn, you knew anybody drawn in
his block could essentially get a double move without any opposing fire,
assuming your command could reactivate him. Check out how this bit the ESU PA
in the ass on turn 4, as they moved out in the open to get ready to charge
(having already lost their nerve earlier), only to have the cmd unit fail its
comm roll, leaving them stranded out in the open where they were decimated by
FCT Charlie Squad, who tagged their leader with an IAVR and then just opened
up on them with the rest of the squad.

Anyway, I found this very amusing. It could have been prevented, though, by
always running the cmd unit first to see if the comm roll
was successful.  Is this abusive?  Would it be good/bad to say that
the cmd unit can only reactivate squads drawn at the same time as him if they
move first (I liked the uncertainty of this)?

Also, I didn't do it, but it seemed natural to advance incoming on its