thread: 2006-05-18 : Mechaton: done playtesting
On 2006-05-23, Sydney Freedberg wrote:
Oh, yeah, another thing I really wanted to ask about:
"Putting your mechs in a wedge and smashing them through my perimeter works great - but it's the very devil to keep them in a wedge under fire. J's mastery of the battlefield varied in direct proportion to the tightness of his mechs."
This is a very cool emergent effect (emergent since I don't recall Vincent writing any "formation bonus" rules or crap like that).
Vincent, Emily, Joshua, is this simply a "concentration of force" effect? I.e., do tight formations work because the more mechs are packed into a small area, the more easily they can concentrate their fire on one target at a time, thereby wiping out more dispersed enemies before any of those enemies gets to do much damage in return? (A classic case of the best defense being a good offense, by the way). Or is something less obvious at work?
