Re: [semi OT] Women wargamers -longish

 ---- john atkins wrote: 
> The secret is, IMHO (gross generalization warning ahead), that women 
> aren't hampered by 3,000 years of tradition.

the acid test of this excellent hypothesis would be how women play FT.
ft players in general are not hampered by all that much tradition, as
fighting starships in a no-speed-limit, vector-based movement system is
fairly new.

>  They generally don't sit 
> down a read for fun about battles that happened hundreds of years ago,

> and they don't generally have a deep grounding in the tactics that
have 
> proven themselves over the past umpteen centuries.

erm ... nor do i. hey, maybe i'm actually quite good at ds2! :-)

Tom

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