ORIGINAL: kclank
ORIGINAL: YHR
Yes you will need to do something as the SLU will be at a disadvantage when playing the TBU game. This is why it is so important to have a set of standards. If you get 6 different versions of IR with no standards between them this will become a real mess, and actually start dividing the hobby into their own camps, and this hobby isn't big enough for that.
Now if Tamiya guys adopt the cone reflector to do away wiht the 45 degree defence that would go along way to setting the systems on a level playing field.. The big question is will a crtical mass of Tamiya tankers consider this a necessary thing to do????.
I always find the discussion of TBU vs other unshielded XBU's interesting. If the TBU is the standard, and i do see that, then someone, using something more sensitive, just needs to be aware of that and accept that fact, no biggy, and should not disrupt the play nor be eliminated from the competition.
We have mixed ''XBU'' at many of Kelly's Heroe's meetings and it never even gets any discussion. If something else was the standard, say el-mod, then the TBU ''might'' be the unit that everyone would consider harder to knock out. Make sense?
I agree. HGowever on the flip side if clubs with the SLU's like the fact they can turn down the sensitvity on the JAGD, I guess Tamiya equipped tanks will have to get use to closing within 20 meters to register hits on SLU equipped tanks with this feature.
Standards are important. I came from a model railroad background, and NMRA standards on DCC were instrumental in assuring all consumers that bought any DCC devices that the device they bought would work with other brands as well.
From an IR point of view we should at least acknowledge that the IR frequency should be a standard. Wouldn't it be nice if out of the box HL tanks or WSN tanks would play with Tamiya tanks. Even if it was limited compatiblity it would be nice if the tanks could give and take hits with no modification. On the battlefield it would just then be recognized that an HL tank is dead in Five hits regardless of what the armor is.
IF everyone likes the 45 degree and slope defense then I guess it will be up to themakers of EL Mod and SLU to conform or be at a disadvantage. That is a pretty onesided argument. Especially if we start seeing Heng Long equipped tanks dominate the battlefield because people like the EL MOD and SLU's enhanced game play over the plain Tamiya gig. Without minimum standards there is a risk of systems being obsoleted as the technology advances. And it may very well be the Tamiya system that gets eclipsed
This SLU is cheaper and has advanced IR features. Heng long equipped tanks with this sytem will in fact have have a superior IR game. Much like ELmod has now. However do the advanced features of El mod equate to the featurss of the SLU. Chances are no, so because of no standards we have system the are exculsive to themselves, and are either at a distinctive disadavantge or advantage, depenmding on the sytem you buy, To me that is an unfortunate development, and it would be better to advance this part of the hobby under some agreed to minimums.