Re: Merc Guild

On Fri, 4 Jan 2002 18:12:06 -0500 "Laserlight" <laserlight@quixnet.net>
writes:
>From: B Lin <lin@rxkinetix.com>
>
>> In real life terms, losses of 2-3% are acceptable, 5-7% high and 15%
>can be sustained for one or two missions.
>
>Losses in terms of what?  Is this infantry platoons or divisions
>(divisions obviously lose a lot lower percentage as a lot of their
>manpower is not in contact)?  Losses per day, week, what?
>
>(I have Trevor Dupuy's book on attrition, so I can probably look up
>the answers, eventually)
>
>I agree that players characteristically accept vastly higher losses
>than a real commander usually would.
>

Could that be partially a result of the rules or the mind set that a
"kill" is total destruction ("Mission Kills" are 'kills' too at least in
Air Combat.)

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