RE: SG2 newbie Q

Hi Mike,

I don't know if we need to make too much of the time scale. Jon T states
in
his first chapter "....the game turn may be safely assumed to occupy one
or
even several minutes of elapsed time. If it is necessary....treat each
full
turn as....5 minutes." He's also talked about this on the list more than
once and really the time isn't necessarily going to be a consistent
quantity
on the game board.

Also, I'm not sure if comparing the time/scale of an administrative move
to
the stop/start nature of a fire fight; which is what the SG game is
meant to
be. The forced march which you were referring to will have likely taken
place on the way to the place of the battle (which is the game table). 

A lot of rules use admin moves and some of them are way over teh top. In
WRG
Ancients 7th ed normal infantry can move 80paces/2 inches in an
Approach/tactical move but can move 480paces/12 inches in a March move.
Anyway, in our games of SG we rarely see march moves employed.

Cheers,

Owen G

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Sarno [mailto:msarno@ptdprolog.net]
> Subject: Re: SG2 newbie Q

LOTS OF SNIP

>     Here's the real problem I'm having with limiting the 
> transfer of actions.	Way
> back in the 1900s, we used to take these little tactical 
> marches wearing fatigues,
> full canteens, with bayonets on the web belts, and carrying 
> M14 rifles.  It was
> not uncommon to make a mile in 20 minutes.  Now that's 1.6 km 
> or 1600m in 20
> minutes.  In SGII, 20 minutes could be as few as 4 turns.  So 
> that's about 400m