Re: Communication and Travel

You wrote: 

>Hmm, hitting a ship from several thousand miles away is pretty 
>pinpoint, and they are dodging. Planetary surfaces are fairly 
>predictable in their movement.

Yeah.  However you can use weapons with blast radii, SLMs (really, when 
d6-1 of each salvo go off into the wild black yonder, how precise can 
they be).  You don't have to worry about the airbase's kindergarten 
three blocks down.

>> Yup.  I'd like to see more rules for Planetary Defenses, though.
>
>So would I. Want to throw some ideas out here?

I'll throw something together to start discussion. . . 

>I don't insist on using minis. However, there are some WWII 
>rulesets that allow divisional/corps engagements with minis. (Each 
>1:300 tank represents 5 or so) That was why I wanted to get actions 
>down to the size that could be portrayed with similar rulesets. If we 

Actually, at the platoon level, you're better off playing 
regimental-size battles, a la Command Decision (15mm, one stand is 
platoon) which gets real crowded if you take it above the 
regiment/brigade level.  Patton's dictum that you should issue orders 
one level down and know where your troops are two levels down comes 
into play.  Anything more begins to present real commanders with 
information overload.  

John