Re: still FMA-40k

At 06:19 PM 9/28/98 -0500, you wrote:
>Oerjan spake thusly upon matters weighty: 
>> 
>> In order to inflict serious casualties on the enemy, you have to call
in
>> artillery support - or send in a close assault. Getting artillery
support
>> can take a lot of time and isn't able to handle all situations
anyway, so
>> the close assault gets important.
>
>I take one exception to this comment. 
[snip] 
>Plus, weapons 
>actually have some range.... and good effects vs armour.... hence the 
>effect of fire in the game is more pronounced.

The difference being that artillery tends to wipe out whole squads with 
one go, whereas infantry fire usually takes several turns...

>Tom. 

       Tony Christney
       acc@questercorp.com

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