Anomaly reports

[Mobhack]

Yep - just because a line infantry element is ~4 men does not necessarily mean that it gets the size 0 bonus. That is usually reserved for scouts (ie those who don't want to shoot, as a rule). An "assault" team of 4-5 that is primarily there to jump off their Spartans and fight might not have it since they are not in the "stealth" business. (Forex, USSR units #346-348 should be size 1 as they are such, not recce).

But there will be variations to the design guidelines all over the place - since they are that, not laws. In the end it is up to the OOB designer to design his OOB, and for the points calculator to decide each element's worth.

So - OOB designer Bloggs may decide that in his Rastafarian OOB, a 2xgun SFMG section element(used in one formation) will have speed 5, and the singleton SFMG element used in inf coy HQ support platoon will have speed 6 to keep up with the grunts - maybe there are more men in the singleton, to carry the bits faster.

For most things, it is neither here nor there if the 81mm mortar crews (forex) have one or two variation in crew from the guideline, or whatever. All provided they fit in the supplied transports, of course !. A couple more men means they may survive longer if subject to C/B fire, and will cost a point or two more than in some other OOB.

OOB designers do not produce blow-by-blow design documents (Those were usual in SP1 days when there were only about, what?, 100 possible units in a national OOB - and some like the Romanians had less since they shared an OOB file with someone). We do have replies in deeply buried emails from folks who did their OOB their way, but it's difficult to keep track of. However, the old line by line essay that you got in SP1 days is long gone, since quite frankly it would be a complete PITA to keep in synch if (say) we published such a tome for each and every OOB.

We have been bitten several times back in the days when we had OOB design teams of volunteers, when some of these went through the OOB set "rationalising" things and "applying the rulez" in a rigid and formulaic mechanistic manner. (Like reducing the carry capacity of the M321X APC in the Rasta OOB to 11 because "that was what all the others are"- but the OOB designer had deliberately upped it to cater for the one 12 man squad available 1957-59 without having to jump through hoops with different formations).

Adjusting the carry of APCs is quite allowable, especially if it saves umpteen new formations and a rewritten pick list etc.

So - a run through like this is fine, as a pointer to things that look like they may need investigating. We will look at these reports, and decide whether or not the points are valid or not to need fixing. But please do not expect a blow-by-blow return replying to each and every line item, and whether or not we decided to fix it as suggested.

Cheers
Andy