Re: DSII for the 2020s
From: Roger Books <books@m...>
Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1999 16:15:14 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re: DSII for the 2020s
On 3-Dec-99 at 15:29, Los (los@cris.com) wrote:
> At 11:17 AM 12/3/99 -0500, you wrote:
> >On 3-Dec-99 at 11:14, Los (los@cris.com) wrote:
> >> >> 1. If your tanks are firing chemical propellant rounds: The
> >> >> overpressure on a 120mm main tank gun can kill a soldier within
a
> >> >> ninety degree arc out to 200 meters.
> >>
> >>
> >> Actually my choice of the word shrapnel is not quite accurate, it's
> >> basicaly two pieces, the left and right half of the sabot, but it's
just
> >> as deadly.
> >
> >This is just my understanding and could be wrong, however,
> >
> >Vehicles don't survive without infantry support. So how
> >does infantry support something that, in order to perform
> >its mission, may well kill them?
>
> Simple you stand behind or off to the side of the main gun or reamin
in the
> IFV. or take your chances. keep in mind that when you go into the
final
> assault when tanks are intermixed with infantry they are using MGs not
main
> guns. (though watch out if they see something that scares them.)
Is that expected in City fighting?
Kind of on that subject, has anyone done an SGII scenario in the city?
Roger