Basically, I screwed up twice when I wrote the first set of rules. I
originally had only "tanks", "armored cars", "trucks" and "artillery"
and all vehicles had to be at least 36" long. Will and I both agreed
that simpler was better, because the R/C warship hobby had literally
dozens of different ship types and page after page of construction
rules. We didn't want those hassles and all the arguing related to such
complicated rules.
Unfortunately, people said that it wasn't "realistic" to have small
tanks attacking large tanks, so I created two tank classes, giving the
smaller class less offensive and defensive ratings. That worked for
many years, but eventually people started complaining that we need
*more* classes to somehow encourage different tanks to be built.
The 1:6 scale rule got added (despite what Will and I knew would happen)
because some early mailing list members said it was needed so that scale
models and parts could be used. Interestingly, none of those guys
actually ever built anything ... making me feel especially stupid for
changing the rule.
Derek, you are indeed correct, by giving all tanks a 4/40 rating and by
giving armored cars a frontal exclusion, nobody will be able to say that
the rules are biased in one way or another. That will reverse one of
the mistakes that I made. Unfortunately, I will never be able to
reverse the 1:6 scale mistake :-(
On 12/18/2013 2:00 AM, Derek Engelhaupt wrote:
I'll be serious for a moment. Why can't it just be everyone gets 4/40
rating, 36" rule or 1/6th scale, and everyone has a frontal exclusion?
No more worrying about size, capacity, or armor ratings. People could
then build anything they want and play every piece on level ground.
Like I said though, mine were built because I liked the designs with a
tertiary consideration of the rules.
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