Re: [semi OT] Women wargamers

You wrote: 

>from a future army point of view, might it be that the introduction of 
power armour, with which the strength and speed of the biological 
component of the infantryperson are all but irrelevant, would remove 
this problem altogether?

Step 1, NO army can afford power armor for all it's troops.  I know in 
my background, I've got four divisions completely power-armored.  Plus 
about 40 or 50 with no power armor at all.  In the 'official' 
backgrounds, we see in Stargrunt that most units are unarmored.

>it might also be interesting in that the attributes which make a good 
footsoldier become not physical (eyesight is less important when you 
have a big computerised image-intesified optical/ir scope and a 

Pet Peeve:  Eyesight has not been that big a deal since they invented 
eyeglasses.  I speak from the perspective of a man with 20/400 vision 
in one eye and 2/200 in the other.  

>thus, it is no longer the archetypal/stereotypical big, heavily built, 
tough-arse bruce willis type who makes a good soldier, but the 
physically inept but quick-thinking nerds. revenge is sweet!

This joker has never been the best soldier.  It's the little wiry guy 
that can load up a 70 pound ruck and move 15 miles a day (average 
marching speed of pre-mechanized armies) and fight a battle at the end 
of the day.  Sod that Rambo Shit.

>of course, this is already true in many/most branches of the infantry, 
especially special forces, engineers, etc.

Engineers are NOT rpt NOT a branch of the Infantry.  Seperate--we're 
the ones that PASSED the ASVAB.

John M. Atkinson