Re: Wire Obstacles

You wrote: 

>To make a point: One does not even need to step on a mine to have 
>one's mobility impaired. If one sees an area that looks like it might 
>be mined (with minefield signs posted), one must avoid it or try to 
>sweep it, as the minefield might well be real. A friend used this to 
>great effect defending a town when he didn't have enough mines to 
>defend it all.... 

Depends--I'm willing to take a bit of a risk unless it looks real 
convincing.  Of course, that comes of long hours practicing the whole 
sordid mess in MILES.  I've yet to get across even a short minefield 
without that MILES making that damned beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep.[1]	
You take less casualties rushing it than you do trying to breach under 
fire.

>Hmmm. I'm not sure the Tsars of Russia would agree. There are home 

Dunno.	Didn't the Germans kinda encourage Lenin to make trouble?  
Those firearms the Bolshies came up with didn't come from nowhere.

John M. Atkinson

[1] For those who never did MILES, it's the military version of laser 
tag, with a laser emitter over weapons which 'shoot' whenever you fire 
a blank.  A short beep is a near-miss, and a long, loud beeeeeeep means 
time for a toe tag.  It is quite possibly the most annoying noise known 
to mankind.