Re: Mine Probing

On  1-Oct-02 at 21:42, Noel Weer (noel.weer@verizon.net) wrote:

> Good point, Steve. Same goes for Dirtside. Some of the most effective
> minefields I have seen were when the opponent never even set them off,
but
> spent more time worrying about how to get around them (or how to get
the
> engineers to them safely) then was worthwhile.

Our first DS gaming involving mines went  like this:

(Me, as ref to the newbie with mines) Don't think of them as
things that blow up but as impassable terrain where you want
it.

She treated it that way.  Opposing player first tried to blow through
them and lost 3 of 4 heavy tanks in the unit.  After that he avoided
them quite well and her placement won her the game.  He ended up
running the gauntlet on the road.

Roger Books