Re: Re: [GZG] OODA

On 11/9/06, Ken Hall <khall39@yahoo.com> wrote:
> This is somewhat reminiscent of the Fire and Fury (American Civil War)
> system. If you modify the tables to reflect the actual state of the
officer
> corps, it can work. What happens more often is that the system is
> transplanted whole-cloth fashion and you get phenomena like Prussian
> brigades of 1870 haring off on their own or refusing to move even when
not
> under fire, exactly as if they were led by a Union political general
of
> volunteers of 1862.

And on any given planet, where you might have units varying in quality
from the 891st New Devonshire Fencibles (Provisional) led by a 98 year
old Baron who has to be awakened by his aide during staff meetings
(and is under the impression that the entire war is rather like a very
large-scale foxhunt) to the flippin' SAS, a system that can deal with
them all is going to be pretty complex.

Or you get absurdities like the above-mentioned.

John
-- 
"Thousands of Sarmatians, Thousands of Franks, we've slain them again
and again.  We're looking for thousands of Persians."
--Vita Aureliani
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