RE: the fact is...
Schutz, are you trying to say that you want a club or want to start a club that allows BB firing tanks? If so, think of the logistics involved.
1st the BB will damage yoru buildings after sometime, unless you make them sturdy, but sturdy means heavy.
2nd how does one keep track of whose tanks got hit or whose tank is dead? Why IR battles are so popular is because the tanks got an ability to 'die' thus keeping track or at least keeping score.
3rd there is the safety issue that everyone mentions. I reside in singapore and BB firing whatever is frown upon by the government. We hold our club meeting at this shopping mall that allows us to use their carpet grass turf to build our battlefield. Thus kids will be around and they might get hit by a stray BB.
Lastly, why tam owners dun want to play with HL is becoz that the HLs got the potential to literally destory their tanks. well at leastteh details of the tank. The BBs fired can dent the plastic break away details. So to a tam owner whom spent 500-900 on their tanks, would you think they will want to play with a $100 tank that can damage tehir own tank?
If and whenthe battle systems that allow HL or any other brand of tanks to battle with Tam tanks, I am sure these clubs will open their arms to you. Btw my club allow HL tanks, only rule is no BB firing. The other problem that HL tanks have is that their electronics are really crappy, no offense just the facts, when we turn on some of our transmitters, the HL tank seemed to lost control. Somehow the receiver board of the HL seems to get interfered with our transmitters really easily. I would sugget a mod to use after market radio to run with tam tanks. then there is the scaled speed issue that some clubs have, you need to gear down the tank to get a scale speed b4 you are allow to battle with teh rest and most of the time I do not see HL tanks being mod to accomadate that. So far the only guy that ran a HL with our tams came down once, after his tank was rendered inoperatable due to the interference, he did not come to teh club again.
As I said, if the tanks have IR battle ability I would welcome them with open arms, coz more tanks equate to larger battles and I can conduct my games more in depth.