RE: Leading from the front, reprise

Tom,
Great Idea!
Would you set something up for GZGECC? We could place the Commanders on
one side of the room with maps. No verbal communication is allowed, only
notes. For a note to be passed, a communications roll is required (with
chance for EW intercept).

To ease communication, perhaps Xerox copies of the terrain could be made
(along with "errors" added <g>). The Lt.s on the table can write
anything on the map they want but are limited to 15 seconds to write the
info. A successful communication attempt allows the message to be send
and a reply to be recieved.

--- 
Brian Bell
bbell1@insight.rr.com
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Original Message:
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From: Thomas Barclay kaladorn@fox.nstn.ca
Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 02:40:19 -0400
To: gzg-l@scotch.csua.berkeley.edu
Subject: Leading from the front, reprise

[snip]

--> Fine, but I think (my opinion) command 
transfers where the officer can't see the unit 
he's attempting to command should have a 
+1 assigned to the tranfer. It's _much_ 
easier to give an order and clarify things by 
pointing or saying "by the tree, 60m 
forward" if you can see the same thing your 
troops can. It also prevents you giving bad 
orders because your whizzo tech mapboard 
doesn't show the gully the ESU are using for 
cover and you figure you've got them cold. 

--> A good way to simulate this sometime 
would be to setup an SG2 game in one 
room. Put two players (enemy commanders) 
in other rooms with just maps. Use either a 
computer network or just radio and make 
their guys communicate with them. You find 
out _really_ fast just how easy it is to garble 
messages, be unclear, execute wrong 
orders (especially if they go through 
someone on the way to you). The way I see 
it, your point man shouldn't be your Lt, but 
he'd darn well better be amidst the platoon to 
see what they're doing. If I see him sitting 
back at the back by himself in the woods, he 
may find the GM inserted surprise enemy 
squad rather .... traumatic. 

Tomb Raider

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