Mister T
Elder Member
I quite agree, this is a good remedy.One particularly excellent way to reduce the sleeze factor is to allocate a few Optional PF to late-war Germans. The best example from our side is "Bite of the Bassotto", where the Fallschirmjaeger have few troops at start, but may freely deploy and have 2 optional PF. The New Zealand AFV are Staghounds (large targets), which means that if you would cruise the big armored car into bypass of a 2-3-8, he might just have a pre-recorded PF ready for you. And hits you on a 9 in motion (7 avoiding backblast in building).
That is a pretty solid deterrent, I would think.
The only problem with this optional rule is when the PF-holding squad/HS suffers ELR/BH/create a hero/leader, you should adjust the recording on paper, which is not good for fog of war in tournaments. Sometimes one can forget to adjust the recording in the heat of battle (it happened to me).