Re: house rules (was Re: [Epic] General Enquiry)

From: mlooney - IOnet <mlooney_at_...>
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 18:56:09 -0600

Miller, Chris wrote:
> > > > IG armies with no normal infantry,
> > > I can _just_ imagine an all-tank force. Depends on the size of the
> > > game.
> > You know you could do the early parts of the Sinai battles of the '73
> > Arab / Israeli war that way. Both sides as IG, one all tanks (the
> > Israeli side), one with TONS of support weapons (The Arab player).
> > The
> > Arab gets a ton of flak and the Israeli player gets 10 or so fighter
> > bombers.
> >
> --------> I think even the Israeli's used some kind of mechanized
> infantry in most of their battles then, didn't they? Then at least you
> have Chimeras hauling troops. Again, I would use several all-tank
> detachments, but I couldn't see myself taking no infatry at all in the
> whole army. Might be an interesting scenario to try, though.

During the 2nd day, after the Egyptions had crossed the canel and the
bypassed the Isreali forts on the cannel, nope. The forces come at the
Arabs were damn near 100% armor, with air support. Ran into a SAM wall
and ATGMs being used in mass for the first time in history. Major
problems then.
Received on Sat Mar 28 1998 - 00:56:09 UTC