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Originally Posted by swordtart

If you pare down your resources it means you can make your biker gangs a bit more hungry too. Bikers armed with SAMs doesn't fit with my image of CW.

[nod] Exactly. Bikers would tend to be "keep it simple" types, as one never knows when one might be getting reloads for one's higher-tech weapons. I picture biker "AA" as looking more like the _Rat Patrol Special_ from _Dueltrack_ -- one of the support pickups with a Ring Mount in the bed with a brace of MGs attached. Far more useful than one-shot SAMs, to boot.

Originally Posted by swordtart

The closer you stay to the low end of the tech tree, the more victory relies on tactics rather then tooling.

Also true -- and I used it to great effect back-when. The 1,500-lb. CB was useful for obliterating large groups of encamped bikers; for those occasions where the bikers were on the road, Other Tactics were employed. The important feature here is: If something is Expensive, make sure it can be used *many* times, to amortize the cost. :)

(In my writeup for "The Death Of EDSEL", one of the great changes made by EDSEL's leadership is: Swap the Bombs for U-facing HRs -- the rockets don't scatter, and won't take out three lanes of traffic in the process of stopping two duellists; thus obviating one of the major complaints against EDSEL interfering in road duels.)