Re: Traveller + SG2/DS2/?

Oerjan Ohlson wrote:

> Finally, a comment for Infojunky: There aren't that many pure infantry

> military actions left nowadays, unless you look at conflicts like the 
> Afghani civil war prior to US involvement or the war between Eritrea
and 
> Ethiopia. 

Yes I agree with you there, and for open field battles SG2 is not the 
rule set, you can use them, but the force management and tactical issue 
snowball very quickly.

> As soon as any western power gets involved, even small-scale 
> actions in close urban terrain tend to involve armoured (or at least 
> protected) vehicles - and in wartime, these vehicles are very rarely 
> limited to the speed of crawling grunts. 

Yes, but neither are they moving at a constant speeds in excess of the 
infantry, Though there are points where they will out run or charge 
ahead to provide cover for their supporting troops. In these situations 
the rules are lacking. That is the genesis of the various solutions 
covering movement and fire and activations.

> Police work during (nominal) 
> peacetime in (supposedly) friendly areas could easily be different, of

> course; since so few police forces use our products I tend to see a
lot 
> more military AARs than police ones.

At least here in the US it was surprising how often skills learning in 
the jungle where required for safe operations in urban areas. Police 
work actually require far greater risks than close order fire combat, 
the number of times I wished for a armored vehicle support when making a

traffic stop on a dark desert night with no backup.

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Evyn

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