Re: [GZG] New to the list, and 2 questions: lift/jump infantry rules, and 15mm alien 'natives'

On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 4:30 PM, John Atkinson <johnmatkinson@gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 5:03 PM, Evyn MacDude <infojunky@ceecom.net>
wrote:
>
>>There are lots of places
>> when moving through the boonies where having the ability fly would
open up
>> vast tracks that are closed to men just on foot.
>
> Few 'tracts' of land are truly inaccessible to someone who is on foot.
>  If you want to get there, you can.  The point of Grav belts is to get
> there faster and with less fatigue than walking.
>

Not so obscure real-life example:  In the Falklands War, there was an
argentine postion that had its flank guarded by a swamp that was
impassible on foot-- the ground would not support a man, it was that
soggy.	That flank got rolled up in a spectacular way, because the
argentines had not realised that the ground pressure of a scorpion
reconnaissance tank was less than half that of an infantryman, so they
had no issues with bogging in the swamp.  The french also used
low-ground pressure, amphibious vehicles to good effect in the early
stages of the Viet Nam War, as well, so there are places where the
determined soldier can be called upon to go and fight, but where he
cannot place his boots.

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