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Date Posted: 02:57:00 12/03/04 Fri
Author: Gethyn
Subject: Re: Concealment/'Open' Stacks
In reply to: Alan Yngve 's message, "Re: Concealment/'Open' Stacks" on 11:56:45 12/02/04 Thu

>Its not silly, but its also not Squad Leader.
>
>Some wargames permit only the top counter to be viewed,
>but these use the assumption that the exposed unit
>would
>be covering the front-line and be in contact with the
>enemy. In Squad Leader there is no "real battlefield"
>justification for only one (or a few) units in a stack
>to be known.
>
>Besides, as you play this great game, one soon realizes
>that stacking is often a bad thing. Stacking is
>usually
>only worthwhile to take advantage of a good leader's
>modifier ... and in those situations one usually wants
>to **FIRE** the stack. :-)
>
>In the SL system, what you are thinking about is
>covered
>by concealment and Hidden Initial Placement (HIP).
>Those
>rules seem to cover the issue pretty well.
>
>If you can see your enemy's units, that means that the
>scenario designer has indicated by its design that some
>battlefield reconnaisance has already been done, likely
>by earlier patrols.
>
>Hope this makes some sense!
>
>-- Alan (some day I'll get some suitable battlefield
>references onto www.advancephase.com)

That makes a lot of sense.
SL's 'all or nothing' approach is a lot more logical than what I was talking about.

I have these random passing thoughts now and then - this forum just gives me the opportunity to blurt them out loud... :)

Thanks for posting your comments.

G

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