Re: [semi OT] Women wargamers -longish

You wrote: 

>she has objectives to get. The best example was when playing DSII I 
attempted to take an objective with  >some of my force, with the rest 
covering. To my surprise the misses seeing this tactic used every unit 
>she had to attack the objective. Blew me apart while I desperatly 
tried to bring my non-commited units >into play. It's simple she said 
you wanted it and so did I, I used more men than you. But what about 
the >rest of the battlefield I said. She then looked at the casulties 
like chess pieces and announced. Well  >try and grab another one then 
I'm doing better than you. :)

1)Sounds to me (I'd have to look at the terrain and have more details 
about the battle) like you violated the principle of mass.  Dirtside II 
bites anyone who does this.  He who concentrates more firepower at the 
point of decision wins.  Con report to follow will expound on this at 
great length as it determined 2 of the 3 games we played.

2)Sounds also to me that casualties aren't figuring in your victory 
conditions.  If your opponent doesn't have a reason to conserve troops, 
she won't.  Start putting loss percentages as a modifier to the 
victory--if she 'holds' the objective, but has taken 90% losses and 
you've taken 40% losses, then it's not a victory.  

John M. Atkinson