RE: [SG] Low Quality Armies

You replicate higher levels of incompetence by issuing non-sensical
objectives.

For instance - Take Hill 834 regardless of casualties.	Even if there is
a heavily fortified position backed with artillery.

Or "No Retreat" otherwise you will be shot by the secret commissar in
your squad.

Or merely change objectives half-way through the game - Turn 3, instead
of capturing the HQ, destroy the fuel dump on the other side of the
board.

Alternatively, promise artillery support then "accidentally" divert it
for a "more important" objective.  

Allow the enemy to lay additional minefields or have more prepared
positions than first reported - "the Major said that they hadn't
entrenched yet and it would be a cakewalk..."

It should be stuff that the players have absolutely no control over,
they just have to suck it up and keep on trucking.  Obviously less
competent armies would allow more of this to reach the higher levels of
command.

--Binhan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: KH.Ranitzsch@t-online.de [mailto:KH.Ranitzsch@t-online.de]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 9:32 AM
> To: gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
> Subject: Re: [SG] Low Quality Armies 
> 
> 
> laserlight@quixnet.net schrieb:
> > >One point to keep in mind is that many of the problems
> > 
> > So let's apply this to, say, the Citizens' Republic of
> > United Diptheria,
> 
> > How do we represent the effect on the CRUD
> > army in SG?
> > 
> > 
> > Other suggestions?
> 
> Do we need any special rules at all ?
> 
> SGII has leadership, quality and mission motivation values for just
> such a purposes. If we set all these to 'abysmal' I don't 
> think we need
> any special rules.
> 
> However, as discussed in the article, the low-level units of such
> armies are often not all that bad. It's the high-level command and the
> support that fails. How to model that in a squad/platoon-level game ? 
> 
> Would using average quality squads with poor mission motivation and
> poor higher-level command give the desired effect ?
> 
> Greetings
> Karl Heinz
>