Re: Recon, Scouts and Battle Phases

Quoting Roger Burton West <roger@firedrake.org>:

> On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 11:38:24AM +1000, Alan E Brain wrote:
> >They ran into the hasty minefield I'd laid and stopped dead,
> >waiting for the engineers. Bad Move.
> 
> This is what minefields are _for_, isn't it? Not to kill the enemy,
> but
> to slow them down and maybe get them to go a different way.
> 
> It's surprising to me how many wargamers treat them as a
> killing-weapon
> rather than as a channelling-weapon.

Because altogether far too many "armies" in modern warfare have
scattered them 
about farmland like grass seed under the apparent impression that
killing 
civilians counts as progress towards winning a war...

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