Re: Morale

At 06:52 AM 5/20/98 -0500, you wrote:
>You wrote: 
>
>>Re: Morale rules. (I know another tangent). With most wargames, most 
>of >your battles are resolved through attrition, (regardless of the 
>
>Winning battles through attrition is to the art of war as a paint by 
>the numbers kit is to the Mona Lisa.  
>	     Frystaat military axiom[1]
>
>morale >rules if any). In real battles, you are defeating the enemy's 
>morale or >will to resist. Inflicting the greatest shock in the 
>shortest period of >time. That's why to me a good set of morale rules 
>would show losses >inflicted in a very short period of time stopping 
>forces as opposed to >prolonged losses over a long period of time. For 
>
>I think DS would be much improved by rules for morale of entire force, 
>rather than just the platoons.  BTW, am I the only person who thinks 
>that it's damn near impossible to break a normal-sized platoon which 
>starts off confident?

Yup, I have found this to be true in both DSII and SGII. The other 
two people I game with and I are going to try some new morale rules. 
The concepts are, I think, very sound, but still need to be playtested.
The basic idea behind it is that units cannot fail a morale test: they
must roll until they pass it. There is quite a bit more to it than this,

but I don't want to post the full rules until we have finalized them.

>example, a company losing >50% casualties over the space of four hours,

>might still be combat >effective, but a company losing 50% casualties 
>in four minutes is probably >gonna pack it in.
>
>Probably?  Unless they've got the NKVD behind them with HMGs. . . 
>
>[1]Name that quote!
>
>John M. Atkinson
>
>
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