Re: [GZG] ground combat campaigns

On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 9:33 AM, Roger Burton West <roger@firedrake.org>
wrote:

> Here's a thought. I'm not a great military theoretician but it makes
> sense to me: in the real world, nobody deliberately goes into battle
> without a force superiority (i.e. enough to be reasonably sure that
he's
> going to win). So battles are basically never going to be "fleet A and
> fleet B, of equal point value, show up and shoot it out".

Except under one circumstance:

The meeting engagement, wherein neither side really knows where the
other is nor what forces they have.  They sort of blunder into each
other, and fight where they meet with the forces to hand, both side
screaming up the chain of command for reinforcements.  These might be
equal in forces by accident.

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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