But only if PTO is in effect. And shooting a quick glance at it, the Concealment rules of SK are much shorter than those in ASL. So still a big difference.
IMHO Concealment and Bypass alone make ASL and SK fundamentally different in the way they play.
Despite the SK rules not contradicting the ASL rules (maybe with very few EXCs).
And there is another point:
Even with 'only' SK1-4 published, you now already need several 'rulebooks' to play SK if you want to play 'full SK' (there is some irony to that expression...). Concealement is only covered in the SK4 rulebook. But in the SK4 rulebook, you don't have notes for non-US, non-Japanese ordnance to name an example.
What if a scenario pack is published?
Are the designers required to adhere to SK1 only, SK2 only, SK3 only, SK4 only, Expansion Pack #1 only rules?
Or will there be a separate rulebook for any SK publication?
Basically, if the 'system' of SK is expanded further, it will replicate the problems of old SL. Maybe without as many contradictions. But it will become increasingly unwieldy, which in part will defeat its purpose. Eventually, there will be a call for a 'combined' ASLSKRB incorporating all SK rules. But at that time at the latest, it will become obivous that SK is no longer the 'simple' approach it was intended and started out to be. Instead we would look easily at 50+ pages, which is nothing to digest in an evening and begin to play like the 12 pages of SK1.
In other words, SK could evolve into something neither fish nor meat. Not the complicated ASL but not the simple SK either. Possibly with numerous separate rulebooks. Numerous SK scenarios would become unbalanced if played with 'full' SK rules. SK players would have to switch rules-thinking depending on playing SK1, SK2, SK3, etc. - and that can be a PITA. Highly likely with an increasing number of SK products which will be out of print and not be reprinted in comparably short order like SK1-3. This, however, would sort of combine the worst of both worlds.
That said, of course, each SK player has always the option to 'stop' at any evolutionary step of SK and then switch to ASL - or not.
von Marwitz