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".

Another element is this:

Defining "point values" in the real world is not a precise science.
An estimation of one's force and the enemy's depends on too many
variables.  If I believe that the elan or inherent Teutonic racial
superiority or better training or superior doctrine of my force makes
it equal to a materially superior force, I might give battle.

And under some circumstances, I might be right.

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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