RE: [semi OT] Women wargamers

A million or 2 inhabitants.  Read my post again.  I win the space
battle, I
sit in orbit, unless you have a relief fleet en route, I grab rocks or
drop
nukes at my leisure.  You could have the best armored divs in the
universe
why do I have to fight them when I don't?

Your second point, don't need transport.  If I go with your example they
can
just hitch a ride on the tank.	I think you are missing the point
though.
Why do I bother bringing tanks and armored units down when I don't?

I disagree with the colonies being sparse  (this is a whole different
argument) I imagine them being relatively dense clustered around a star
port
with farms.

Again, don't get me wrong, it wouldn't be much fun playing a game where
PA
engage remnants of New California's 2nd Light Lancers with ortillerty up
the
ying yang.  I prefer to game with what GZGs try to encompass.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: jatkins6@ix.netcom.com [SMTP:jatkins6@ix.netcom.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 1998 12:02 AM
> To:	FTGZG-L@bolton.ac.uk
> Subject:	RE: [semi OT] Women wargamers
> 
> You wrote: 
> 
> >1. I imagine most skirmishes will be small (Brigade or smaller) in
the
> >future.  
> 
> Good luck holding a planet with a million or two inhabitants with a 
> brigade.
> 
> >2. Transport will be at a premium.  Why transport APCs/Tanks/GEV 
> infantry >when most conflicts involve securing the high ground (orbit)

> and picking >your battles.  And if you decide to bring the APCs etc.	
> you have to have >something big enough to transport them dirtside.
> 
> Who told you PA doesn't need transport?  I've found that it's gotta 
> have IFVs to keep up with the tanks et al.  And your operational and 
> strategic mobility is gonna suck rocks, which means your small force 
> (see your point 1) is going to be incapable of dealing with a sparsely

> settled planet.  Remember, a lot of colonies are going to have the 
> population of, say, Long Island, spread out over the land area of,
say, 
> Russia.
> 
> 
> John M. Atkinson