From: Glenn M Wilson <triphibious@j...>
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 17:22:57 -0500
Subject: Heading OT at 60 paces a minute Re: mixing technology force in Dirtside
On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 10:56:34 -0400 (EDT) John K Lerchey > <lerchey@andrew.cmu.edu> writes: <snip> > It's not just you. Most napoleonic rule writers think that Napoleon Then those of us who like Austrians (Nice troops on the average, some elites, lost most battles, most of the wars but stuck around stubbornly trying until they were on the final winning side - extra points for endurance. That's something a Presbyterian can admire. <grin>) get laden all kinds of limitations in most rules. Of course when it comes to overall officer quality... Napoleonic Austrians have to look the word up in the dictionary. Not much of an Anglophile in that period (gee, I wonder why...) I prefer Austrians except in/on the Peninsula when I prefer Spanish or (if I must be Anglo-Allied) Portuguese. When the Spanish I measure 'success' by how long I can stay on the field... and if I can prevent the Franco-allied forces from achieving THEIR victory conditions. Gracias,