Re: In A Perfect Game: SG/DS/RPG's - Experience Vs. Training

John Atkinson wrote:

>Point of fact:  many Iraqi units, especially
>Republican Guard units, had many years of combat
>experience fighting against Iranians and Kurdish
>insurgents.  Almost none of the members of the US
>forces in the Gulf had any combat experience
>whatsoever (senior officers had mostly been junior
>officers in 'Nam, but that was all up at General
>level).  However, when it came right down to doing
>their job, the Iraqi's experience was completely
>irrelevant because they were not fighting the same
>kind of war.  However, the US/UK/Everyone else except
>the Syrians and Egyptians had enough training that was
>relevant to the situation at hand to pretty much mop
>up.
>
>It's not just experience, it's what you're experienced
>_at_.	Experience gunning down teenagers running
>straight forward across an open field while you sit in
>a bunker does not translate well to a battle of
>maneuver between tank units.

You're illustrating the point I was trying to make.  The question now is
how 
to reflect it in a game.

Brian B2

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