Re: [GZG] New to the list, and 2 questions: lift/jump infantry rules, and 15mm alien 'natives'

On Jan 11, 2009, at 9:52 PM, Richard Bell wrote:

> That flank got rolled up in a spectacular way, because the
> argentines had not realised that the ground pressure of a scorpion
> reconnaissance tank was less than half that of an infantryman, ...

Back in my arty days we used to catch flak from city leadership types  
for our howitzers "ripping up the roads."  M-109s are BIG and HEAVY  
so driving them on the road MUST rip up the asphalt right?  Wrong.

Turns out that your average non-combat loaded M-109 had lower ground  
pressure than your average VW Beatle and once we had an engineer  
speak to them about it, complete with the basic math behind it, the  
argument was settled.

Damo

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