Hi Guys The SLU you can reduce the sensortivity of the Battle unit by 20% ,So this could be set for a Tiger or other heavy tank at 80%(factory setting is80%)and light tanks could be set at 100%(i think it is possible to lower the sensortivity more but the Manual isnt very clear about this)
You can also pick how many hits you want for your tank to take,this already will start a few arguments,I suppose you could also incude reducing the range of the gun.
I would say a blanket setting For Sherman at 5 (as standard for Tamiya)is fundamentaly wrong an early M4 set the same as a Jumbo of other marks with additional armour and wet stowage.Same could be said for other tanks which served for long periods Panzer 3 panzer 4 and T34all these were either up gunned or both upgunned and uprated armour plus additional armour(schurzun).

I think any work that progresses this is well worth looking at,I would also like to see momentum made complusory to stop tanks spinning and racing from cover fire then race back..This is not how they fought and arnt we trying to get to a point which is realastic.

I can see all the Tamiya guys now saying thats not the standard Tamiya is the standard,it may well have been the standard but there are battle system out there better than tamiya at around the same price El-mod is better and I would say the SLU is better and cheaper than the Tamiya,The sounds are as good as the Tamiya and it does have more options reduce the sensortivity of the battle system tank more or less hits than a a standard 3 5 or 9 can be anywhere between 3 and 12 thats 9 different settings plus can alter battle system,(also you can switch lights on and off and other functions)But one big draw back is no momentum (will try a turnigy chip later)
There are other systems which are cheaper but still offer more than the Tamiya, DBC is one still have the 3 settings (but i bet dave could make more)You have momentum which is a big plus,also because the battle system is in parts it is easy to place sensors in different places around the tank ,not nessasary to haave them stuck out of the top,which means you can make it harder to hit from the front but easy to hit from the side.Now that Dan has made the Sound card that works with the DBC it also has the ablity to have better sounds than the Tamiya.

So unless Tamiya spend some of the money they have been making on an upgraded Battle system they will no long be the standard but an over priced option that people wont want.


Keep up the good work Dan ,you do have support for your ideas ,the more realistic we can make a battle system the better the battles more fun which is what we all want.

regards pete