RE: [semi OT] Women wargamers

You wrote: 

>1. I imagine most skirmishes will be small (Brigade or smaller) in the
>future.  

Good luck holding a planet with a million or two inhabitants with a 
brigade.

>2. Transport will be at a premium.  Why transport APCs/Tanks/GEV 
infantry >when most conflicts involve securing the high ground (orbit) 
and picking >your battles.  And if you decide to bring the APCs etc.  
you have to have >something big enough to transport them dirtside.

Who told you PA doesn't need transport?  I've found that it's gotta 
have IFVs to keep up with the tanks et al.  And your operational and 
strategic mobility is gonna suck rocks, which means your small force 
(see your point 1) is going to be incapable of dealing with a sparsely 
settled planet.  Remember, a lot of colonies are going to have the 
population of, say, Long Island, spread out over the land area of, say, 
Russia.

John M. Atkinson