Re: Vehicular Flamethrowers for SG2

> On Mon, 17 Aug 1998, Thomas Barclay wrote:
> 
> > Mental Note: I might drop Fallschirmjager into a hostile LZ, but I'd

> > sure soften it up with bombing, guns, etc, and give them close air 
> > support. So if your fighters are all shot down, your airfield will
be 
> > a smoking wreck (except for the runways) before my troops land. And 
> > if your little truck pulls out, my stukas and junkers and 
> > messerschmidts will chew it to pieces (it go boom real good) before 
> > it gets anywhere too near my jump troops. I don't think its that 
> > great of an idea - a desperate one -yes. Good.... probably not - 
> > except for the first time when it surprises the enemy if it can 
> > manage.

You would, would you?  I rather imagine every general in history has
wished
the same.  What one can accomplish is not necessarily what one would
wish.