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Re: [GZG] QUESTION Re: Walkers in 15mm

From: Doug Evans <devans@n...>
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 14:19:54 -0600
Subject: Re: [GZG] QUESTION Re: Walkers in 15mm

FM 17-15, Chapter 3 Section III

'Prior to insertion into heavy rain forests, platoon leaders will
inspect
all large trees for heavy logs suspended by vines...'

The_Beast

Oerjan Ariander wrote on 02/17/2009 01:57:06 PM:

> TomB wrote:
>
> >Star Wars chicken walkers may look faster, but they can be taken out
by
> >ARBOREAL TREE BEARS. Where I come from, we call that a DESIGN FLAW,
even

> >in a recce unit.
>
> Um, well... today's MBTs can also be taken out of the fight by
dropping
big
> trees on them from ambush (particularly the kind of elaborate ambushes
> featured in RotJ). OK, they won't *explode* quite as nicely as the
chicken
> walkers do, but you can disarm them, blind them and immobilize them...
and
> they're not even recce units :-P
>
> /Oerjan
> orjan.ariander1@comhem.se
>
> "Life is like a sewer.
>   What you get out of it, depends on what you put into it."
> -Hen3ry

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