Re: Another rules question:

[Joe Sommer <anvilus9-at-adelphia.net>]

At 11:02 AM 7/10/2003 -0400, Frank Pittelli wrote:
>One aspect of the last battle that was generally agreed by all battlers 
>was that the 40 round limit really makes you think.

I agree with Frank 100%.  The 40 round limit worked very well.

>... battlers were only allowed to reload or work on their vehicle when (a) 
>in home base or (b) when a 5-minute timeout was called by either team.

This also worked very well.  Otherwise people will be continually
tinkering with their tanks on the field and stopping play at the slightest
hint of malfunction.

>However, instead of allowing any number of tanks in home-base at a given 
>time, I think a limit of N (chosen by the CD based on the size of the 
>teams) should be imposed to further require battlers to think like a team, 
>managing the use of home-base effectively.

This might be useful in that I remember all three of the vaunted
Tri-Pact tanks cowering together in their home base on several
occasions.

Joe


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