Yup I am familiar with those types of games, and they do have merit but they can also slow down the RP some depending on everyone's freevtime.  This is much more free form than that though, Wargtass will often give a description of what should be faced but exact numbers and mechs are usually pretty vague so most players are able to decide what the enemy forces are.  The down side is that a battle can quickly get out of hand when lets say someone miss reads a post and decided that some errant missile's that were shot were by two Trebuchets instead of mistaken friendly fire.<br/><br/>Matt