Wishlist: Buying Defensive Features for Meeting Engagements

[Cross]

Currently, only the defender can purchase defensive features if the battle is an Assault/Defend battle.

During force selection – in Assault Defend battles - the defender can purchase:

• Fortifications
• Bunkers

the defender can also purchase points for:

• Mines
• Trenches
• Barbed Wire
• Dragons teeth

which are spent during the deploy phase to place these features on the defenders side of the map.

Also during the deploy phase (of an assault/defend battle) the defender may choose to:

• Entrench All Units

Why not allow both players to purchase these features for Meeting Engagements?

I think it would sometimes be fun – and realistic - to have to equally sized forces facing one another over a no-mans-land, where both sides have some mines, barbed wire and other defensive features, and they need to try to attack and capture objectives.

This would be particularly interesting for PBEM campaigns, where encouraging a little stagnation in the front lines would be healthy.

I’m not suggesting you have no limit to defensive feature purchasing. Every PBEM battle has pre-game agreements, and defensive feature purchases would obviously just be a part of that agreement.

Personally, I would keep the purchase of defensive features in a PBEM Meeting Engagement to far less points than I would accept in an Assault/Defend battle. I may choose to allow very limited mines and barbed wire, but not allow the ‘Entrench All’ button to be used. It would be nice to have to worry about mines in a meeting engagement, once in while.

No one would be forced to agree to allow the purchase of defensive features. But having the option would give the choice to those who are interested.

There could even be a preferences button could even turn this ability off or on, for playing against the AI.

Any thoughts?


cheers,
Cross