Re: SGII Newbie Question

> Well if your orcs are smart enough to have discovered FTL then they
> should be smart enough to develop advanced tactics also instead of
> moving in inefficient and unweildy mobs.

What makes you think that moving in smaller units would be MORE
efficient for 
ORCS?  Just because it is more efficient for humans does not mean that
it 
would be more efficient for orcs.

It seems to me that you are trying to put use human psychology to
explain 
NON-human behavior.

What if orcs were simply too socially unruly to be able to operate in
'small' 
units?	What if orcs simply were simply not as individualistic as humans
and 
had a much more 'mob mentality'.  What if any of 1,000 things that we
simply 
cannot comprehend (because we have yet to meet another sentient race)
kept 
orcs from forming 'smaller' units?  Thus LARGER units really would be
more 
efficient for THEM (given this psychology).  Again this all stems from
me 
wanting orcs to be orcs and not green space marines. :-]

Also under your explanation (if I understand you correctly) the most 
'efficient' unit would be ONE man squads...if the tech. existed and the 
training could be achieved to coordinate the 'squads', right?  Think of
the 
flexibility, firepower, etc.  Of course this is just not possible for 
humans...perhaps for some 'bug' like alien or telepathic space creature,
but 
not humans.  :-)

As for the tech. thing, again you are simply paraphrasing GW's idea of
orcs 
(I think), not mine.  In the old "Rogue Trader" days such things were
left up 
to the players and our group developed a nice background to support OUR
idea 
of orcs.  It was not like it is now where 40K players are spoon-fed a
history 
like it or not. :-(

On a side note:  I think SGII will suffer because it does NOT
'spoon-fed' a 
history.  It would seem most of the people that play sci-fiction
miniatures 
seem to WANT to be 'spoon-fed' a history.  But don't ask me why!  I have

always been puzzled by the seeming LACK of imagination in this area when
it 
comes to people that play a game that REQUIRES an ENORMOUS amount of 
imagination to begin with!  If someone has an idea on this 'score'
please 
explain it to me as I have been trying to figure this one out for quite
some 
time...  :-[

SC