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<blockquote data-quote="UngainlyTitan" data-source="post: 5617426" data-attributes="member: 28487">I went through a phase of looking for realism in combat back in the day, I never really found it and lloking back I am pretty sure that if I found it I would not have liked it.&nbsp;I think that Doug McCrae's insight that all rpg cpmbat is a mini wargame is pretty accurate and wargame combat are abstractions. No-one has the time or patience to simulate it out at squad level if they are gaming at Army gorup level. Most logistical considerations are abstracted out more or less completely.&nbsp;If hte outcome from turn to turn roughly matches what happedend historically people are generally satisfied.&nbsp;I feel the same way about rpg combat, if the final narrative that emerges when the combat is resolved is some kind of the approximate match for what one would expect from the genre than I am happy.&nbsp;I particluarly like 4e combat because one can map the power uses to what one might see in the movie of the scene.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="UngainlyTitan, post: 5617426, member: 28487"] I went through a phase of looking for realism in combat back in the day, I never really found it and lloking back I am pretty sure that if I found it I would not have liked it. I think that Doug McCrae's insight that all rpg cpmbat is a mini wargame is pretty accurate and wargame combat are abstractions. No-one has the time or patience to simulate it out at squad level if they are gaming at Army gorup level. Most logistical considerations are abstracted out more or less completely. If hte outcome from turn to turn roughly matches what happedend historically people are generally satisfied. I feel the same way about rpg combat, if the final narrative that emerges when the combat is resolved is some kind of the approximate match for what one would expect from the genre than I am happy. I particluarly like 4e combat because one can map the power uses to what one might see in the movie of the scene. [/QUOTE]

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