Fog of War or lack of
Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2014 5:04 pm
I picked this game up last week to pass some time by while on vacation, and overall I find the game to be enjoyable. I like the supply system, it's abstracted but having read some novels on the war in North Africa I think it does a good job at portraying units being out of supply and restoring precious tanks to your panzer divisions. I like the unit size as well, and I can live with the Italian divisions being as strong as Panzer regiments because I like to think that the Italians suffered a bit in perfomance when compared to Germans because of organization/tactics and leadership...so it took a larger division size unit to achieve what a combined arms German Panzer/Motz Regt could do. Overall, great job with the game!
However, I have a small niggle. It's the lack of fog of war.
I really don't like being able to see every single enemy unit and their strength and who just entered the board as a reinforcement for them as well. Perhaps in future games using this engine, the strength of the enemy could be hidden or a best guess estimate depending on how good the intelligence is. Commonwealth should have better intel and know more unit strengths and possible locations. Perhaps the map could represent the best known intel and present that as what we see, until a battle is engaged? Maybe you might get intel that a unit is being transfered to the theatre so you would know approximately when a unit was going to show up but you would have to still guess it's strength (80-100%). Rommel certainly didn't have the exact strength
and location of all CW units.
Thanks for reading,
John
However, I have a small niggle. It's the lack of fog of war.
I really don't like being able to see every single enemy unit and their strength and who just entered the board as a reinforcement for them as well. Perhaps in future games using this engine, the strength of the enemy could be hidden or a best guess estimate depending on how good the intelligence is. Commonwealth should have better intel and know more unit strengths and possible locations. Perhaps the map could represent the best known intel and present that as what we see, until a battle is engaged? Maybe you might get intel that a unit is being transfered to the theatre so you would know approximately when a unit was going to show up but you would have to still guess it's strength (80-100%). Rommel certainly didn't have the exact strength
and location of all CW units.
Thanks for reading,
John