What is Skirmish Level MicroArmor?

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From: "Glenn" <warbeads@juno.com>
To: Micro-Armor@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Micro-Armor] Fwd: [microarmor] Re: Skirmish Level MicroArmor
Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2003 22:45:49 -0000
Message-ID: <be2bmt+ca81@egroups.com>

--- In Micro-Armor@yahoogroups.com, Flak Magnet <flakmagnet@t...> 
wrote:
> On Mon June 30 2003 12:21 pm, mobius501 wrote:
> >
> > I would not call this level 'skirmish'.   Skirmish brings to mind 
a
> > squad or two of infantry on individual bases.  I would not want to
> > play skirmish level 6mm.
> 
<snip>
Well, I don't know, it might be okay at 6 mm.

But as for what determines skirmish scale:

Skirmish - 1) a minor fight in war usu. incidental to larger movements 
(Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary.)

And The American Heritage Dictionary - Second College Edition:

A minor encounter in war between small bodies of troops, often as part 
of larger movements.

"minor"
"small bodies of troops"
"incidental to" or "part of" the "larger movements"
 
Seems pretty open to interpetation to me.

Is a Platoon moving up in flank support of an operation by Battalion 
or above and engages enemy forces a skirmish?  Does skirmish require 
1:1 basing?  Is an ambush of an advance armor unit in a deliberate 
assault a skirmish?  I think the predisposition of the person being 
asked "What is a 'skirmish' battle?' might determine the answer to 
those questions more than an objective measurement.  When you cross 
from skirmish to tactical depends on era, genre and, mostly, what you 
think it means.

Gracias,
Glenn

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