RE: [SG] Hand to Hand combat

To add to Oerjan's comments,

Jon T explains in the rules that the Close Combat isn't just hand to
hand.
It is the activity that occurs in the last 10 to 50 meters of the enemy
position. This will include not only bayonet and butt but also hand
grenades
and full auto blind-fire! How does a Veteran take out 5 opponents?
Satchel
of grenades or a claymore mine thrown out of the pit, cower and hit the
clacker! No hand to hand involved! (The standard cable on Claymore is
only
30 m! 3" in SG rules)

I think you ned to keep in mind that all of Stargrunt is quite
generic/generalised. hand to hand is best covered in FMA Skirmish or
FMC. In
SGII we are worried about what teh platoon is doing and the Close Combat
is
a way of quickly handling the actions of one or two squads. 

Another 2cents,

Owen G

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Oerjan Ohlson [mailto:oerjan.ohlson@telia.com]
> Subject: Re: [SG] Hand to Hand combat
> 
> 
> Adrian wrote:
> 
> > >You are making the assumption that everyone lines up and charges
> > >forwards in neat lines.  It ain't necessarily so.	Being
> > >outnumbered in melee is generally fatal, but if you pick your
> > >terrain well you may find a spot where they can't all get at you
> > >at once.
> > 
> >But that isn't how the rules work.  Either my squad makes it into HTH
> >with your squad, or it doesn't. 
> 
> Yes, it is how the rules work. You're forgetting the ground 
> scale here:
> 1" ~10 meters, so the base of a single normal 25mm figure covers
> something like 50 square  meters. There can be a lot of minor 
> "terrain"
> in that area which simply isn't represented on the table - but which
> could, and would, be used to good effect by the "HTH" (ie, close
> assault) combattants.