Re: bayonettes are too a useful device

On Mon, 11 May 1998 21:27:42 -0500 (CDT), jatkins6@ix.netcom.com (John
Atkinson) wrote:

>IMHO, anyone who wargames a crowd control situation is off his rocker. 

>It's a loose-loose situation for all concerned.  The crowd gets fscked 
>up, and the military takes massive hits from the media and politicians.

Actually, Practical Wargamer included a set of rules for crowds and mobs
in a
recent issue. It was a simple set of rules that spanned several eras.
The way
they had it set up, it looked rather interesting. Putting a mob in the
middle
of a two-way battle could be an interesting, if chaotic, game.

Of course, it assumed that there was no crowd control. The crowd was
already
beyond control... :-)

Allan Goodall	     agoodall@sympatico.ca

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