Harlequin Master wrote:
>
> Us Brits are the expert at the rolling barrage, more WW1 Tommies (Brit
> Soldiers) died due to OUR rolling barrage than were killed to German
> HMG fire!! :)
Yup. That's the way it should be. Take 2X casualties from Rolling
Barrage plus X from enemy MG fire and rifle fire combined, total 3X, or
take 20-30X from enemy MG fire plus another 5-10X from rifles.
Cold-Blooded, innit? Worse is that, regardless of casualties, your odds
of success are less if you take no casualties from your own barrage.
(BTW the adfa in my alternate address is the Australian Defence Force
Academy, where I teach.. I confess I have qualms about envisaging 18yr
old female Officer Cadets doing things like this. Fortunately most of
the females are in the Navy, so they're more likely to be burnt to
death, blown to bits or drowned, rather than just disfigured or maimed.)
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Received on Sat Sep 27 1997 - 20:07:29 UTC