Re: Vietnam and modern combat

On Sat, 24 Apr 2004 04:30:46 -0700 (PDT) Robert Makowsky
<rmakowsky@yahoo.com> writes:
>Scott,
>
>These are some good ideas and ones I will have to
>incorporate.  The only problem I see is with players
>that are more into winning than with playing the game
>and having fun with it.  
>

I wish I had the problem of frequent winning <grin> but there is a
balance (on a sliding scale between a game that rewards good real world
tactics/strategy and one that kills the fun with a slavish process that
tries to fit the details ad infinitum ("Your #3 private has 20/40 vision
and that's a -.25 to your roll.")

>Ideas like these (FUBAR) make for a great game for
>folks who are into simulating what might have actually
>happened but can be very frustrating for someone used
>to the "My men go where I tell them and they stand to
>the last" sort of gamer.
>

Okay, now how do I answer what FUBAR means when my daughter asks?

She listens to my war game rants on occasion...

No, I know what the first part means (and she's aware the word exists -
she's not that sheltered) -  it's the last three letters i forget! 
Beyond All Recognition?  Doesn't sound right...

>I side strongly on the simulation and love this sort
>of stuff.  I remember a few ECCs ago when I was able
>to make it and I was in an FMAS game.	One of my
>figures I was modeling on K'rrt (Weaselboy).  Each
>turn he would move and then go In Position.  Our team
>leader urged me to move him faster as we could use his
>heavy weapon in the firefight to soon develop.  I told
>him that this was the way this troop would operate and
>until action was joined he would continue his cautious
>movement.  Fun stuff.
>

Fools rush in where live men fear to tread?

>Bob Makowsky

Gracias,

Glenn

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