Re: Low Tech Scenarios..morale rules

On Wed, 20 May 1998, Los wrote:

> Do you remember that game TACOPS? Not a bad game but it had NO morale
> rules. The designer thought that players didn't want to be bothered
with
> them 

Actually, I agree with this view. Many gamers (as opposed to 
simulationists) intensily dislike morale rules and typically morale 
rules, confidence checks etc. is the part of the game that is forgotten 
in the heat of the action.

>PLUS since you can't quantify maorale exactly it owuld be
> unrealistic. Of course my argument was no morale rules at all was ten
> times more unrealsitic than having something.
 
Again, agreed, but some people are looking for a fun game, not realism. 
Besides, it might be worthwhile to ask which realism a game like DS2/SG2

is trying to portray? Modern combat with neater guns, or the stuff you 
saw in the latest SciFi flick?

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