Re: Merc Guild

Losses in DS2 can't really be all KIA and WIA. I expect a high 
proportion of eliminated units are simply rendered unfit for combat in 
various ways: scattered, scared, lost, helping a budding, etc.

But if you're used to 80% casualties, lets play a game of something.

K.H.Ranitzsch wrote:

>----- Original Message -----
>From: "John Atkinson" <johnmatkinson@yahoo.com>
>
>>2)WTF sort of IDIOT would insure combat equipment?
>>You'd have to be a moron, or charge the sort of rates
>>that make it uneconomical.  Remember, insurers have to
>>turn a profit too.  ...This
>>works if you've got 100,000 people paying $100 a month
>>and paying out $1,000,000 to the 10 people who die
>>that month.  But the frequency of combat losses (what
>>percentage losses does the average Dirtside II game
>>inflict?  Frequently in excess of 80%--often in the
>>space of one or two turns) make the premiums more or
>>less the equivelant of buying a couple tanks a month.
>>
>
>Which brings up the question of whether wargames losses are, indeed
>realistic. For typical game losse, it would, indeed, be unprofitable.
On the
>other hand, insurers of US equipment and personnel in recent wars would
not
>look so bad.
>
>Greetings
>Karl Heinz
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