Re: Tech Levels and Quality was Re: DS3 design (long)

> And almost always a crushing numerical superiority, like 10:1, 20:1,
or
> more.

eg Abyssians vs Italians, Battle of Adowa, 1896.  17K Italians in four
brigades moved forward out of their prepared positions to offer battle
to what they believed were 30K Ethiopians--there were actually about
100K warriors there.  One brigade was ordered to move to a position
next to a specific hill--but the map was mismarked and the native
guides took them to the hill with the right name, rather than the hill
the general intended; another brigade followed the wrong canyon.  When
he lost contact with two brigades, the Italian general couldn't make
up his mind what to do, and the result was that the Italians were
defeated in detail, losing about half their men.