Re: Re: [GZG] DSIII q

Grant Ladue wrote:

>I imagine that
>I don't have the best grasp of modern combat, but is smoke really the
only
>way that recon units break contact?

There are two ways to break contact (for any unit, not just recon):

1) Kill or chase off all enemies in sight, or

2) Move out of sight of all enemies, preferrably by moving behind some 
LoS-blocking terrain feature. If there is no such terrain feature close 
enough to let you get behind it quickly, deploy a smoke screen to buy
the 
extra seconds you need to get out of sight.

For light recon units option 1) is rarely practical, so they usually
have 
to resort to option 2) instead :-/

> >Think of it as playing this way.  You do what
> >someone (sorry, don't remember who) suggested to do "big moves" to
get
> > into combat.  Once in, you are doing small tactical adjustments in
the
> >firefight, in compressed time.  For most vehicles, the Combat Move is
in
> >the 2-4mu category.	For those grav tanks, well, they's fast
don'tchaknow,
> >and some of them have Combat Moves of around 12mu... :)
>
>Yeah, I think get that.  How fast are those grav tanks moving in their
>"big move" though? The gap they were crossing was about 6 or 7 inches
wide.
>Some piece of me feels like they should have been able to blow across
it
>without being forced into an extended combat.

A Combat Move of 12 mu equals a speed of 135 mph (216 km/h). If the gap
is 
only 6-7 mu wide a grav tank moving that fast can easily avoid
*extended* 
combat by simply using its first Combat Move in the FireFight to move
out 
of the gap, but it can't escape *all* enemy fire - enemy units on
Overwatch 
will get one shot at it before it can move away.

> >>Say, how do very large units like Ogres work with firefights?  Does 
> shooting
> >>at one element on a big vehicle allow everything to shoot back?

As long as all parts of the big vehicle have LoS to the enemy shooting
at 
it, yes :-/

Later,

Oerjan
oerjan.ariander@telia.com

"Life is like a sewer.
  What you get out of it, depends on what you put into it."
-Hen3ry

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