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February 28, 2019 at 5:53 pm #1355302

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@davebpg Very early on, we found that most modern games where you introduce thermal imagining it ends up as a foregone conclusion (the technology is just overwhelming). We even saw American force players drop smoke on top of their own tanks, not to cover a redeployment but to deny the enemy a shot while the thermal imaging allowed them to see through the smoke.

I think it’s probably why Battlefront chose to set Team Yankee in the year they did, because modern games set in Europe with 1st line equipment basically “broke” until the Soviets got “something equivalent (and to be frank they never did, as you can see here http://defensepoliticsasia.com/progress-in-russian-thermal-imaging/ ).

So instead you’ve got to find a way to field M1s without the thermal imaging for a “good game” (even if it’s not terribly realistic).