Re: [GZG] DSIII q

[John K Lerchey <lerchey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 3 Mar 2006, Grant A. Ladue wrote:

>    Yeah, but what kind of cover keeps a blaster from shooting at you from
>  above?  They would have had to break for cover behind a building, and at
>  infantry movement speed, they'd have been long dead before they reached it.

Well, if you think about it, even entering Close Assault, you're at least 
2mu distant, which is 200 meters.  You might be marginally "above" them, 
but infantry are really really really good at taking cover in small places 
(compared to vehicles).  Men can lay down, scrunch up, fold, staple and 
mutilate.  Oh... wait.  That's not quite right. ;)  But you get the idea.
Even from on the hill where the AA units were initially deployed, those 
grav tanks were around a kilometer away from the infantry.  No way that 
they were high enough to fire down INTO the positions.  They weren't 
flying. :)

>    Perhaps the answer is to have a mechanism for "hopeless" firefights where
>  the side that can't shoot back can disband its unit and end the firefight
>  before the other guy can creep up to it.  Just a thought off the top of my
>  head.

Or just keep piling on the fire to force the infantry to accumulate 
stress. They'll break eventually. :)

John
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