Re: Scouts.....

John Atkinson wrote:
>
> > Next thing you do is to leave the attackers a choice
> > of routes to travel. BUT
> > their maps are not completely accurate, and they
>
>Why not?  US forces now frequently use satellite
>imagery with a UTM gridline superimposed.  Accuracy is
>pretty much a given with modern mapping methods and/or
>even a handful of recon satellites.

I think the idea is to make the scenario more interesting.  You can
always 
find some excuse for making things more muddled than they'd really
be....

> > have no idea where the enemy
> > is, apart from "somewhere over this line. We think."
>
>Again, both sat recon and UAVs in plenty make things a
>bit more precise.

But not as fun for fiction..... ;-)

3B^2

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