Re: SV: Low Tech forces in DSII/SGII

On Mon, 13 Oct 1997, Oerjan Ohlson wrote:

> I don't have SGII yet, so these comments all refer to DSII:

Status: RO

> attackers. For a picture of the casualty rates the primitives would
suffer,
> think WWI and multiply by a factor lots. 

I think the Colonial era wars, e.g. Brits vs. Zulus and similar 
highlights of western "civilization", are more representative.

> If, OTOH, they are used to
> fighting high-tech forces, they know that they need to disperse a LOT
and
> use guerilla tactics - ambushes in close terrain and similar; in this
case,
> the action is too small to fight out in DSII.

Note that some low tech forces, e.g. indians, already fight (fought)
this 
way, because their vision of war is a series of guerilla raids. They'd
be 
a lot better prepared to fight higher tech forces than e.g. Napoleon.

 
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