Their is the capability now to make the IR side of battling more realistic. The Elmod board has all kinds of options for different battle damage such as a right side track get knocked out or your turret no longer works. It also can be programmed to take damage more or less from different sides using multiple sensors and some other variables. Think a couple other boards may offer this as well. Also the Vampire IR sensor system which is plug and play. All these things are cool, but if everyone isn't using the same set up or mounts everything the same it's just not applicable. Man, could you imagine the headache of inspecting 80 or so tanks to see if their 4 IR sensors are mounted to the specified standard and recieve hits appropriately...no thanks.

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