Chris Miller wrote:
> ------> Right. And I bet most micro armor players, faced with a wave of
> infnatry or tanks approaching their platoon, wouldn't try and defeat the
> rules by targeting a particular tank or squad half the battlefield away just
> because they know it's the unit commander, ignoring the immedeate threat to
> themselves.
Ummmm... well actually, this is almost true. If, say, your platoon is
being assaulted by a complete regimental attack (and by good planning,
you're on a forward slope of the hill that's just been obliterated by
the enemy arty), pretty much the only way you're going to stop the
attack is to take out the OPFOR C2 assets. Let's see, 4 AFvs and 20 men
vs 200 AFVs and 3000 men...
If you can take out:
the Regt CO
His deputy
The Artillery commander attached
Then can call down some of your own artillery to confuse 'em, a few
ATGMs from concealed positions, and Hey Presto the attack gets
"bewitched, bothered and bewildered" and often withdraws to stock-take.
If you can also get the second line - the batallion COs - then you have
it made. Relocate if they keep on going, then hit 'em in the flanks, and
they're history.
Happened on the Eastern Front quite a bit, where a Soviet Armoured Corps
would often be successfully counter-attacked by about 100 men, AFTER
they had punched their way through 10's of thousands just a few hours
before.
I might add that in an attack, suddenly to have communication with your
HQ suddenly break, and then be confronted with opposition on the flanks
(squad size? Platoon size? DIVISION size? Do you really want to hang
around, getting attritted away to find out?) is a recipe for disaster. 9
times out of 10, a retreat will save your bacon. The other time, you
could have kept on going and rolled up the pitifully weak opposition.
Blast Markers (BMs) simulate this confusion quite well. Rolled a 1 twice
in a row for BM recovery? That's probably because the Batallion CO and
his deputy are both casualties, regardless of what Sgt York at the sharp
end is doing.
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