Re: strike the colors rule

On Tue, 02 Jan 2001 20:16:45 EST, Glenn M Wilson <triphibious@juno.com>
wrote:

>How does that tie?  Well, any warband leader (Ani Yu-niwa or any other
>group) who lost 25% of his people, no matter how many 'enemy' he
killed,
>would probably have been given a hint as to where the nearest cliff was
>located.  And that he should use it post haste.  Yet how often do we
>callously spend 50+% of our forces to achieve a tactical goal in our
>games?

Right you are. 10 percent casualties was considered pretty high during
the
second world war in the Western theatre. And for a reason. It doesn't
take
many battles at 10% casualties for your unit to become essentially
worthless. 

The American Civil War was far worse. World War 1 was the first war with
modern (or something resembling it) field hospitals, and the death rates
dropped because of it, even though casualties were monstrous. 

Allan Goodall		       awg@sympatico.ca
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