Morale, was Re: Low Tech Scenarios

You wrote: 

>Re: Morale rules. (I know another tangent). With most wargames, most 
of >your battles are resolved through attrition, (regardless of the 

Winning battles through attrition is to the art of war as a paint by 
the numbers kit is to the Mona Lisa.  
	    Frystaat military axiom[1]

morale >rules if any). In real battles, you are defeating the enemy's 
morale or >will to resist. Inflicting the greatest shock in the 
shortest period of >time. That's why to me a good set of morale rules 
would show losses >inflicted in a very short period of time stopping 
forces as opposed to >prolonged losses over a long period of time. For 

I think DS would be much improved by rules for morale of entire force, 
rather than just the platoons.	BTW, am I the only person who thinks 
that it's damn near impossible to break a normal-sized platoon which 
starts off confident?

example, a company losing >50% casualties over the space of four hours, 
might still be combat >effective, but a company losing 50% casualties 
in four minutes is probably >gonna pack it in.

Probably?  Unless they've got the NKVD behind them with HMGs. . . 

[1]Name that quote!

John M. Atkinson